B.V. married B.J. Koch [Group Sheet]

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Victor Henry Koch Sr., 78, Crete, died Saturday (8/7/04). Born, St. Benedict, Kan. Retired construction worker, Brooks Construction Company.

Survivors: son, Victor Jr., Mexico City; daughters, Barbara Cowling, Kim Koch, both of Lubbock, Texas, Vicki Sterling, Crete, Rhonda Bordeaux, Lincoln; sister, Thelma Olberding, Falls City; brothers, Lawrence Koch, Maryland, Adrian Koch, Holton, Kan.; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren.

Services: 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, St. Mary's Church, St. Benedict. St. Mary's Cemetery. Cremation, no visitation. Kuncl Funeral Home, Crete.

(Published in The Lincoln Journal Star on August 10, 2004)

Victor married Brenda Charlene Farmer 29 Dec 1967, Clarksville, Red River County, Texas, USA; divorced 7 Sep 1984, Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, USA. Brenda (daughter of John Charles Farmer and Doyle Bernice Harrison) was born 12 Jun 1941, Odessa, Ector County, Texas, USA; died 2 Jan 2010, Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, USA; was buried 8 Jan 2010, Idalou Cemetery - Idalou, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Brenda Charlene Koch of Lubbock went to be with our heavenly Father after a lengthy illness. She departed this life on January 2, 2010 at the age of 68 years. She was born on June 12, 1941 in Odessa, TX to John Charles Farmer and Doyle Bernice Harrison.

She graduated from High School in Levelland, TX in 1958. Ms. Koch attended Lubbock Vocational School of Nursing and graduated with a LVN degree in 1976. She retired from Covenant Hospital in 2004 after 18 years of nursing. She lived in Idalou for 27 years before moving to Lubbock in 2002. She was a devoted mother and grandmother who always loved her children and grandchildren.

Those left to cherish her memory are three daughters, Barbara Cowling and husband Byron, Kim Kingham and husband Quentin, and Pam Spears, and one son, Victor Koch Jr. and wife Lisa. She was blessed with seven grandchildren, Bo Cowling, Brooke Cowling, Benjamin Cowling, Liberty Koch, Jack Koch, Renleigh Kingham, and Brendell Kingham.

Mrs. Koch was preceded in death by her parents and one son, John Spears.

Graveside Services will be held at 1:00 p.m., Friday, January 8, 2010, at Cemetery Chapel in Idalou, with Doug Allen officiating.

Arrangements are under the personal care of White Funeral Home in Tahoka. To register or send condolences online, please visit www.whitefuneral.com.

John — Doyle Bernice Harrison. Doyle (daughter of Newman Jackson Harrison and Maude Dell Hagar) was born 20 Aug 1921, Jayton, Kent County, Texas, USA; died 12 Jun 1969, Snyder, Scurry County, Texas, USA; was buried 14 Jun 1969, Hillside Memorial Gardens - Snyder, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Mrs. Bernice Farmer Snyder Rites Today

SNYDER (SC) - Mrs. Bernice Farmer, 47, died at 11:30 p.m. Thursday in Cogdell Memorial Hospital after a short illness.

Funeral will be held at 4:30 p.m. today at Northside Baptist Church with burial in Hillside Memorial Gardens directed by Bell-Seale Funeral Home.

Mrs. Farmer was born Aug. 20, 1921 in Jayton. She had lived in Snyder the past three years. She was a Baptist.

Survivors include her mother, Mrs. Maudie Harrison of Snyder; a daughter, Mrs. Brenda Koch of Abilene, Kan.; a sister, Mrs. Lavell Earl of Fort Worth, four brothers, L. D. Harrison of Memphis, Tenn., Loyd Harrison and Wayne Harrison, both of Odessa, and N. J. Harrison Jr. of Caney, Kan. and three grandchildren.

(Published in The San Angelo Standard-Times on June 14, 1969)