Obituaries
• Todd Garrett Weishuhn, 17, died April 21 as the result of an automobile accident and was buried at the St. Lawrence Cemetery. Todd, who was a junior at Garden City High School, was actively involved in sports, having played Little League baseball, football, basketball, tennis, track and golf. He was also involved in the 4-H club and was a member of the St. Lawrence Catholic Youth Organization. Away from school, he enjoyed riding his dirt bike and hunting.
Todd is survived by his parents, David and Belinda Weishuhn; his sister, Amy and her husband, Justin Schwartz, all of St. Lawrence; his grandparents Lawrence and Helen Jost of St. Lawrence and Presley and Ethel Weishuhn of Eola; his godparents, Chris and Lana Hirt; numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, other family and friends.
The family suggests memorials to the Glasscock County Emergency Medical Service, P.O. Box 249, Garden City, TX 79739.
• Elo E Hoelscher, 87, died April 24 and was buried in St. Joseph’s Catholic Cemetery in Rowena. He was born in 1917 in Falls County, Texas to E. B. and Laura Ernst Hoelscher. He married Magdaline Matthiesen in 1942 in Rowena. The couple farmed in the Eola and Mereta area, retiring to San Angelo in 1984.
Survivors include his wife, Magdaline; three daughters and their spouses, Janice and Stanley Lange of Miles, Linda and Larry Kujawski of San Angelo, and Ann and Harold Hoelscher of St. Lawrence; two sons and their wives, Larry and Pam Hoelscher of Odessa and Tommy and Karla Hoelscher of St. Lawrence; four brothers, Elmer, Melvin, Willard, and Bill, and three sisters, Bernice Hosack, Grace Gully, Mabel Namken, and several grandchildren. He was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Susan Kay; his parents; a brother, Monroe, and two sisters, Cleola Hoelscher and Laurine Bjorn.
• Dennis Joseph Finn, Jr., 50, of Midland, died April 25 in Glasscock County, and was buried at Resthaven Memorial Park, Midland. He was born July 11, 1953 in Midland and married Patricia Smith June 5, 1997. He attended Lee High School and received an associate’s degree from Midland College. He had been a respiratory therapist at Midland Memorial Hospital and at Westwood Hospital. He owned Rustic Outpost furniture store.
Survivors include his wife, Patricia Finn of Midland; two sons, D.J. Finn and Thomas Finn, both of Midland; one daughter, Brandy Finn of Midland; two stepsons, Jason Smith of Lubbock and Dustin Smith of Midland; one stepdaughter, Tracy Scott of Midland; two sisters, Cherry Morgan of Houston and Soccoro Hendry of Abilene; one brother, John Swiney of Carrollton; and other family and friends.
• Joyce Batte Smith of Hurst, Texas died May 5. She was born in Shrevesport, LA in 1922, and moved with her parents to the West Texas Oilfields as a child. She attended school in Garden City and graduated with the class of 1940. Her husband, A.J. Smith and a son, Jerry Lynn Smith predeceased her. She is survived by a son, Don and his wife Charlene of Fort Worth and a daughter Sharon and her husband Jack Rhoden of San Antonio and 10 grandchildren and several great grandchildren.