By Jim Rice As Secretary of the Fort Bend Independent School District Board of Trustees I believe it is time for our entire community to request that Congressman Olson and Congressman Green, Senator Hutchison and Senator Cornyn ensure the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, commonly referred to as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) [...]
Angelita G. Vela was born on August 2, 1931 to Gregorio Guajardo and Librada Olguin on a ranch outside of Refugio, Texas, one of six sisters and three brothers. The family lived in various places in south Texas, finally settling in Brownsville. She married Robert G. Vela in 1948. They had eight children. In 1961, [...]
Funeral services for Edwin Jacob Franek, 72 , of Richmond, were be held at 11:00 A. M., Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at St. John Fisher Catholic Church in Richmond with Father Manuel La Rosa-Lopez officiating. Interment followed in Greenlawn Memorial Park in Rosenberg. Visitation was held from 5:00 P. M. until 8:00 P. M., with [...]
HARRY MATTHEWS WILKINSON, age 90, of Sugar Land, Texas, passed away Monday, February 20, 2012. Harry was the youngest and last surviving member of the William Clark Wilkinson and Anna Florence Reynolds family. He was born near Throckmorton, Texas, January 2, 1922, and was a 1950 graduate of Oklahoma A&M College, Stillwater, Oklahoma, with a [...]
Many of us moved to Sugar Land to escape a Houston where politicians and city bureaucrats were co-opted by developers which had a free pass to do whatever they wanted, including building apartment complexes that allowed them to make a fast buck while destroying established neighborhoods. For many years we had truly conservative, visionary leadership [...]
Funeral services for Edwin Jacob Franek, 72 , of Richmond, will be held at 11:00 A. M., Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at St. John Fisher Catholic Church in Richmond with Father Manuel La Rosa-Lopez officiating. Interment will follow in Greenlawn Memorial Park in Rosenberg. Visitation will be held from 5:00 P. M. until 8:00 P. [...]
Billy Vic (Bill) Krehmeier, 86, passed away February 8, 2012, in Sugar Land, Texas. Visitation was held at Sugar Land Mortuary, 1818 Eldridge Road on February 11, 2012, from 10:00am to 11:30am, immediately followed by a luncheon reception for all friends and family with a Memorial Service at 1:00pm. Graveside services immediately followed at the [...]
Thank you so much for taking time from your busy lives to give and to see that we had a merrier Christmas. All of you made it possible for these little girls to keep on believing that there really is a Santa, and they do believe! The smiles on their faces told it all. Thank [...]
Philanthropist. Fashionista. Mother. Judy Gulgun-Kleiber passed on January 19th, 2012 in Sugar Land, Texas. Judy Gulgun-Kleiber has been awarded the American Business Women’s Association 2010 Woman of the Year, Excellence in Achievement and Friendship Star Award, and the Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce 2009 Ambassador of the Year. Judy’s lust for life and life [...]
A memorial service for Edward “J.D.” Daniel Craig Pachar, 44, of Missouri City, Texas will be at 2 p.m., Saturday, February 11, 2012 at Davis-Greenlawn Funeral Chapel in Rosenberg. Deacon Billy Guerrero will officiate the service. J.D. was born November 2, 1967 in Orange to Andrew and Linda (Duhon) Pachar. He served in the United [...]
