Sanders, Collier Frank


C. F. Sanders, 68, Dies Unexpectedly; Rites Here Sunday

Funeral services for Collier Frank Sanders. 68, who dropped dead last Friday afternoon on the porch of the Wagley brothers' home at Oak Grove, were held from Hubbard Funeral Home Sunday afternoon, with interment in the Weimar Masonic Cemetery.

Rev. A. L. Crouch of El Campo officiated, assisted by Rev. W. E. Brown of Weimar and Rev. Lee of Eagle Lake.


Found On Porch

Mr. Sanders, a native of the Live Oak section south of Weimar, who had lived at Oak Grove until six years ago, had left Weimar around noon Friday to visit his old friends, Riley and Virgil Wagley, who, as it turned out, were not at home. Presumably he was waiting on the porch for their return when he succumbed to a heart attack. Another resident of the area, Oliver Wagley, found his body there late in the evening. It is believed Mr. Sanders had died several hours earlier.

Born at Live Oak in 1884, he was the son of George and Cassie Sanders. He married Mrs. Minnie Obenhaus Walker Oct. 13, 1909, and with the exception of a two-year period when they lived in Weimar and operated a store, they resided at Oak Grove until 1945. In that year they moved to Eagle Lake and shortly afterward to Bonus, a nearby community. Mr. Sanders did some farming, but most of his life was an engineer in gravel-pit work. He was a 48-year member of the Live Oak Baptist Church.


10 Children Survive

Survivors in addition to his widow are four daughters, Mrs. Eddie Chromchak of Genoa, Mrs. Zula Lorfing of Victoria, Mrs. Fred Froehlich Jr. of New Bielau and Miss Vivian Sanders, at home; six sons, Frank and Wilbur of Glidden, Arnold and Rex of Eagle Lake, George W. of El Campo, and Roy, serving in the Army in England; three step-daughters, Mrs. Daisy Goode of Osage, Mrs. Bowers Cousins of Columbus, and Mrs. Alfred Steinmann of Schulenburg: a brother, Oscar Sanders of Oakland; nine grandchildren, four step-grandchildren; and one step-greatgrandchlld

Active pallbearers at the funeral were Dewey Gerstenberg, Donald Obenhaus, Pete Foster, F. F. Anders, Riley Wagley, William Blackwell, Oscar Miller, and O. P. Moore Sr. Honorary pallbearers were Alvin Linke, Morris Naumann, Elo Linke, Harry Brower, Raymond Hoffmann and Virgil Wagley.

Weimar Mercury, October 17, 1952, pages 1 and 5