Percy William Obenhaus ¹

   Cause of his death was generalized arteriosclerotic coronary vascular disease and coronary thrombosis.²

  General Notes:

Percy was a retired service station operator. His last residence was Glidden, Colorado County, Texas. His son willia A. Obenhaus was the informant on the death certificate.

Percy Obenhaus Is Buried

Last rites were held Thursday at Untermeyer Funeral Home for Percy W. Obenhaus, 75, who died in Columbus Sunday. The Rev. John Stansbury of the Glidden Baptist Church and the Rev. L. W. Crouch of El Campo officiated. Burial was in Odd Fellows Cemetery.

Mr. Obenhaus was born in Weimar Sept. 17, 1880, son of Charles and Florence Trott Obenhaus. In 1903 he married Sophie Scheller. The couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1953.

They had lived in Glidden 49 years and Mr. Obenhaus had retired only a few years ago from his business as operator of the Texaco service station in Glidden.

His wife survives along with his 6 children; Mrs. Tom Perry and Mrs. James K. Wallace of Glidden, Mrs. Waldine Stein of Houston, Jake Obenhaus of Tucson, Ariz., and Willis A. Obenhaus and Mrs. John H. McDaniels of Houston, 8 grand children and 2 great grandchildren.

Pallbearers were his nephews Charles Henry, Elwood, Dick, Douglas, Jack and Gerald Obenhaus.

Colorado County Citizen, December 15, 1955
Transcribed by Judy Talkington

  Additional Information:

• FindAGrave: Memorial# 47717981.

• Death Certificate Image: here.

Percy married Sophie Dora Scheller, daughter of Louis Henry Scheller and Mary Jane Berthold, on 6 Mar 1904. (Sophie Dora Scheller was born on 3 Nov 1883 in , Colorado County, Texas,⁴ died on 29 Dec 1985 in , Colorado County, Texas ^{4 5} and was buried on 30 Dec 1985 in Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Columbus, Colorado County, Texas ⁶.)