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Notable Katy Area Families and Veterans Journal
Continued front page feature lists numerous Katy Brookshire residents and families with military service in World War II and beyond. Profiles include Earl Roesner a Navy Lt Cmdr and Jackson Co. Fair Board vice president, plus Elvy Mathis and Alma Irene Schmidt who moved to Katy area. Other entries cover spouses, children in the Air Force and Army, marriages dating to 1930s and 1940s, local business roles, church and community involvement, and lifelong ties to Katy, Brookshire, and Houston through 1950s era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson Co. Fair Board
Jackson Co. C of C
Earl Harold Roesner
A & M College
Navy
Naval Academy
Heald College of English
San Francisco
Business Administration
Tulane
Harvard
MIT
Naval Communications
Earl
Vera Atwood
New Orleans
Earl Jr
Vera Margaret
Kristian Ann
Baytown
Houston
Heitman-Bering Cortes
Fair Haven Methodist Church
12Th Naval Dist. Comunications
Elvy Judge Mathis
Alma Irene Schmidt
Meadowlark Lane
Katy
Gary Lynn
Air Force
Michigan
Sherry Elaine
Denice
Mark
Barbara
Jean Ebel
Sterling
California
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Lockheed
Antelope Valley College
Fred
Air Corp
Kenneth McDonald
Ella McDonald
Wallace McDonald
Agnes Rochen
Ray
Wayne
Brookhire
Kenneth
Texas Highway Dept
New Guina
Philippines
Japan
Dorothy Rapailver
E. E. Rapailver
Brookshire
S.H.S.T.C
James H. Griffin