Tuesday update, January 22

Teens preserve history at cemetery
Brothers Michael and Zachary Furr, Georgetown High School students, are in their third year of volunteering to keep up the Union Hill Cemetery. Their older brother Nicholas also helps out when he comes home from college. Shannon Lowry

Read the full story in the January 23 Sun.

Tuesday A slight chance of drizzle or light rain before noon, then a slight chance of showers after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 67. South wind 15 to 20 mph becoming west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

3-day weather history at the airport [here]

Events

Tuesday, January 22
9:00a The Georgetown Story hosted by Senior University
10:00a Dr. David Dodgin speaks at the Sun City Ballroom
6:00p Artist Talk featuring artist Curly Clark at the Georgetown Public Library

Deaths • Services

Jimmy Birch Russell died on January 15, 2019. Visitation was from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, January 18, 2019 and services were held at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 19, 2019. Both were at Cook-Walden Davis Funeral Home at 2900 Williams Drive in Georgetown. Interment was at I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Georgetown.

Nina Imogene (Roberts) Foust, 92, died on January 16, 2019. A time of visitation will be held on Monday, January 21, 2019 at 10 a.m. in the Chapel of Ramsey Funeral Home with the funeral service beginning at 11 a.m. Burial will follow the service at Liberty Hill Cemetery.

Odell Roy Lee Faske, 83, died on January 16, 2019. A time of visitation will be held on Sunday, January 20, 2019 from 3-5 p.m. at Ramsey Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held on Monday, January 21, 2019 at 10 a.m. at Faith Lutheran Church in Georgetown. Burial will follow at Cook-Walden Capital Parks in Pflugerville.

Rita Kathleen Petro, 86, died on Tuesday January 15, 2019. Memorial Services will be held at Santa Rosa de Lima Catholic Church, 6571 FM 970, Florence, Texas on Friday January 25, 2019 at 2 p.m.

Lyndon Douglas Stearns, 77, died on Sunday, January 13, 2019. The family gathered for visitation on Thursday, January 17, 2019 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Cook-Walden Davis Funeral Home in Georgetown and again on Friday, January 18, 2019 from 9 until 9:45 a.m. at Cross and Crown Lutheran Church in Georgetown. A funeral service began at 10 a.m.

Georgia "Tootsie" Murray, 93, died on January 14, 2019. A visitation with the family will take place on Sunday, January 20, 2019 from 6-8 pm, at The Gabriels Funeral Chapel, 393 North Interstate 35 in Georgetown.  The funeral services will be held the following morning on Monday, January 21, 2019 at 11 a.m., with the burial immediately following at Berry Creek Cemetery.

Sally Brumbaugh Ridgway, 91, died on January 12, 2019. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, January 20, 2019 at San Gabriel Presbyterian Church of Georgetown.

James Francis Hawes died on January 15, 2019. Visitation was held at Ramsey Funeral Home on Thursday January 17 from 6 to 8 p.m. with the memorial service at Ramsey Funeral Home on Friday, January 18 at 2 p.m.

Erma R. Reynolds, 98, died on Tuesday, January 15, 2018. Services are pending.

Norman Lee Jones, 87, died on December 1, 2018. A Memorial Service will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, January 21, 2019 at The Worship Place in Georgetown, Texas.

Mary Alice Bischoff, 88, died on January 16, 2019. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 24, 2019 at Cook-Walden Davis Funeral Home in Georgetown. A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, January 25, 2019 at The Worship Place in Sun City.