• Charlotte Irene Wilcox died July 21, 2004 after a brief battle with cancer.  She was born June 22, 1947, in DeQuincy, Louisiana.  She was a graduate of Lamar University and worked for the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston as the Vice President of Procurement before retiring to Baytown.  Charlotte was a beloved, generous, and loving daughter, sister, aunt, friend and classmate.  

"She was my neighbor on Long Drive from 1956 through 1960.  During that time Charlotte, Mary Fanestiel and I spent many fun hours playing dolls and riding our bikes.  Many good memories" -  Benny Boudreaux

"Charlotte and I dated our senior year and were engaged for a time.  Hard to believe she is gone." - Will Budd

"I was shocked to see all the "kids" that have passed away.  Charlotte and I were always right next to each other in Southern Belles.  We had so much fun together and I liked her so much."- Lou Ann Gore Banhart                                         

• Jeff Hankinson  moved to Baytown when he was about 15 years old.  His father worked all over the world so his family ended up in Baytown where is father worked for Gulf, as an petrochemical engineer.  Jeff was a very smart person and loved to go to the football games and victory dances.  He made friends really fast.  He was a friend to everybody.  As he got out of high school he went to Lee College and eventually became a photographer but in, I think, 1990 he was killed by a drunk driver on the Gulf Freeway.  He was 43 years old. 

"I miss him to this day.  He was my friend."   - Charles Frazier

• Kay Reeder Warren   was the most wonderful person.  She always cared about others.  She went in the hospital to have back surgery and within the week, she was gone from a nicked artery during surgery. 

"Miss her.  She was my best friend in High School."  - Cheri Foster

"Kay was one of the nicest and friendliest persons we could ever know."- Lou Ann Gore Banhar

"Kay was the very best person I've ever known.  In addition to being the love of my life, she was a wonderful mother, grandmother, mother-in-law, friend, and elementary school teacher.  Kay was a genius at teaching math to children, but her greatest gift was in raising their self esteem.  It amazes me to think of the number of lives Kay had such a profound and positive influence on."   Mack

• Martha Creasy   died last year.  She had many illnesses, but I believe her heart failed her.       (We would love to know more about Martha if anyone has more information)

• Beverly Fox Gill   Beverly Fox was born in Baytown, Texas.  At the age of 28, she moved to Colorado and never looked back.  She was the most energetic person I have ever known and participated in every outdoor activity and was at aerobics class at 5 a.m. every day.  She enjoyed riding her Honda Goldwing across the United States and Canada.   Her next activity was to be ice climbing. On the first of June, 2000, she was on her bicycle training for the MS150 when she had a heart attack and passed away instantly.  She left behind 2 daughters, a granddaughter, and many, many friends that are still in shock she is no longer here and miss her so much.  She was quite a dynamic lady.

  Melanie Laird
  Daughter of Ron Laird and Beverly Fox

• Robert Lloyd Robertson -  "Robert was one of my closest friends during our high school years. He was a fun loving, easy going guy that liked to laugh about everything. He enjoyed life and he loved to play pranks on his friends. Robert was killed on a construction job shortly after we graduated. He was a very close friend and I still think of him and miss him after all these years."

  Herbert (Buddy) Bruner

• Guy Black -  "Guy and I were collage roommates for three years at Southwest Texas and fraternity brothers. Guy lived larger than life.  He worked hard and played hard, some say a little too hard.  I graduated a semester before him and left San Marcos to start my business career.  A few months later I had a trip back and met with Guy.  We spent the day and a very long evening reliving our past which started several years prior as freshmen at Lee.  I left Guy at his place late in the evening with plans to see a horse he owned run at a track outside Houston.  Guy died in a tragic auto accident fifteen minutes later.  I miss Guy and think often of him."

  Gary Motley

• Roger William Bennett -  "Roger and I were good friends in high school; he was an avid outdoors man and loved to hunt and fish.  Along with Louis Kana and Joe Atkins, we did a lot of fishing especially for those big alligator gar that flourished in the bays and streams around Baytown.  Roger was active in scouting and we spent summers at El Rancho Cima scout camp.  In the summer of 1964 he and I worked on a cattle ranch in Montana.  I introduced Roger to Marilyn Marshall (class of '66).  They married after Roger graduated from Lamar University.  After high school, we went in different directions but I always considered him one of my best friends.  Roger lost a battle with cancer ten years ago and is survived by his wife and three children."

  Roy Cavarretta

  Roger was an extraordinary Christian, husband and father to be married to for 26 very short years.  He infused more energy into his short life than anyone I have ever known.  He was devoted to our children and to me in ways that mere words cannot express.  My peace and joy comes from knowing he is with the One we all long to see.  God is good every day. 

  Marilyn Marshall Bennett Jobe

• Gary Greenwood -  "Gary was a childhood neighbor of mine on Lakewood Drive for many years.  We ran into one another often and tormented each other when we had the chance.  I seem to remember a running battle we had over a certain fort in the woods across from my house."

  Judy Perkins Toole

• Sharon Lee Miller -  "My cousin, Sharon Lee Miller, died 9/11/2001 of cancer.  She moved to Baytown during high school and lived in Baytown the rest of her life.  Another life cut short."

  Marie Guidry

• Peggy Lucas Bohannon -  Went to be with the Lord September 4, 2005. 
• Peggy was a resident of Baytown for 45 years.  She graduated from REL in 1965, Lee College in 1970 and the University of Texas, Galveston.  She received her Masters Degree in Nursing from TWU.  She was a nurse and an educator.  The last 25 years she was a Nursing instructor at Lee College and the Lead Instructor for the LVN program since 1983.  Peggy was a member of Baptist Temple and had taught Children's Sunday School for a number of years.  Peggy's faith in God was always first.  Her mission in life was to influence the Nursing field by training highly professional nurses.  She was very caring and compassionate towards all who knew her.  Peggy's hobbies were reading, helping people and adopting animals.  The joy of her life was her grandson, Kayleb.  She was the love of her husband, Calvin, and her sons.
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• John E Rice -   Johnny died October 3, 1983 of  Hodgkins disease at the age of 37. 
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• Jane Ellen Pohler Mazoch -  Jane was a lab technician with Exxon Chemical for 25 years.  She was an energetic free spirit who cared deeply for her family.  Her family came first in her life.  She loved art, reading and cooking, and was strong-willed and a lover of life.  She struggled valiantly against cancer and will be greatly missed by all.  She died at home on May 2, 2003.
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• Patricia Cecil Henderson -  Pat passed peacefully in her sleep on Thursday, January 19th, 2006.  She worked as an administrative assistant at Exxon for the past 15 years.  A dear and loving mother of two, she is survived by her sons, Eric and Chet.  Pat touched numerous lives and will be missed by many.
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• Patsy Compton New -  Patsy died February 3, 1992 of brain cancer.  She and her husband, Lynn New, were foreign missionaries in Taiwan for nine years.  Patsy and her family traveled to several countries and was a true blessing to so many.  They had three beautiful daughters, Natalie Strahn (San Antonio), Anita Atkins (Chandler),  Pam New (Dallas)  and five precious granddaughters.
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• Peggy Compton Whatley (sister)

• Carroll (Wayne) Sheppard -   Wayne went to be with the Lord Wednesday, February 6, 2008.
• He graduated from Robert E Lee High School in 1965 and Lee College.  He joined the Army in 1966 and served 3 years.  He qualified for Special Forces training and served on tour in Vietnam as a Green Beret.  After returning from Vietnam, he went to work for Exxon Company, USA as an Instrument Technician and retired from Contech Engineering in 2003.  Wayne enjoyed his family and grandchildren.  He was an avid bowler and golfer and enjoyed playing baseball.  He enjoyed beding a part of the Sitton Dirt Track Racing Team since 1980.  Wayne will be dearly missed by all who had the chance to be touched by his caring soul, but Wayne O "PaPaw" will live forever in our hearts.
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• Ruth Ann Ganson Serman -   Ruth , 61, of Gainesville died March 3, 2009 at River Valley Health and Rehabilitation Center.
• She was born November 20, 1947 in Hot Springs, Arkansas to Dorothy Neil Hignight and Woodrow Wilson Ganson.  She was the oldest of 3 children.
• Ruth retired from North Central Texas College in 2006.
• She is survived by her children Greg Sherman and wife Melanie of Lewisville and Amanda Cobb and husband Allen of Gainesville.  Grandchildren Seth and Samuel, brothers Collins Ganson of Katy, Texas, Danny Ganson of Portland, Texas and mother Dorothy Ganson of Katy, Texas, and countless friends and family members whose lives were better for knowing her.
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• Sally Petty Bird -   Sally passed away on September 24, 2006 after a brave struggle with cancer..
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• Leata Jewel Young Waller -   Leata passed away on March 23, 2010.  She married high school sweetheart Clifford Wayne Waller on July 9, 1966.  .
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• Clifford Wayne Waller -   Wayne died on Sunday, June 6, 2010.   He was born in Baytown in 1945, graduated from Robert E Lee in 1965 and married high school sweetheart Leata Young in 1966.  He then joined the Army and was discharged in 1969.  He worked at Sheldon Paper Mill as a machine tender and retired after 36 years.  He was the ultimate outdoorsman.  Only his love for his family and four grandchildren could surpass his love for hunting and fishing. 
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• Arilla Ann Hamman Bowerman -    Arilla, 68, passed away Thursday, June 10, 2010 at her Baytown home.  Born in Louisiana on July 31, 1947, moved to Baytown at the age of 10 and graduated from Robert E Lee in 1965. She enjoyed crafts, especially making handmade Christmas ornaments.  Arilla was a loving wife and mother, dedicated daughter and sister, a treasured friend to many and a child of God.  She will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved her.
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• Nancy Tapp Hodges -    Nancy, 63 of Pearland, passed away on Friday, April l6, 2010 after a courageous struggle with Diabetes and a recent brain injury.
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          Thurman Watson

He passed away Thanksgiving day last year (2004) very suddenly with a heart attack.  He taught me Algebra I and II and was also Lee's tennis coach.  He was a great person and teacher and had it not been for all the extra help he gave me after class, I would have never passed algebra my freshman year at UT.

Cassandra Brunson

         Beverly Rockhold

Coach Rock died of an apparent heart attack two years after retiring on July 5, 1979 at 67 years of age.      He was a Missouri native who coached Lee to the 1956 state cross country championship and was the first in Texas to twice be named the state's track coach of the year by the Texas Sports Writers Association.  In 1969, he became the 49th man voted into the Texas High School Coaches Association Hall of Honor and the first track coach.  He was widely recognized as the "state's greatest track coach" for the final two decades of his 30-year tenure as Lee's track coach.  "He knew more about coaching than anybody I've ever been associated with", said Drew Dunlap, a Hall of Fame track coach at Sterling who got his start as Rockhold's assistant.  "He told me in track some athletes respond to different workouts, different motivations.  He was a master at knowing what to do to get the most out of each athlete."  Rockhold did double duty for many years as the school district's supervisor of health and physical education; he also taught PE at Lee College.  After he retired from coaching at the end of 1971 season, he stayed on for six more years as Goose Creek's PE supervisor. 

David Dudley

        Charles Eugene Forque

During his nearly 40 years as a high school band director, Charles Eugene Forque won the respect and affection of students, colleagues and his fellow professional musicians.  He took 36 bands to University Interscholastic League competitions and brought home 34 sweepstakes awards.  Former Tonight Show bandleader Doc Severinsen performed 43 concerts with Mr. Forque's high school bands, whose public concerts included one at the first baseball game in Houston's Astrodome.   Mr. Forque was born in Cedar Bayou, Texas, which is now a part of Baytown.  He went to Robert E Lee High School in Baytown, where he would later return to be band director for 21 years.

Mr. Forque, 75, died Saturday of complications of Alzheimer's disease at his McKinney home.   To convey condolences or to sign an online registry, visit www.tjmfuneral.com. 

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