Obituary

Paul Robert Cervantez, 57, of Spring Branch, Texas, died on Saturday, July 24, 2021. Visitation will take place Monday, August 2 from 4 to 8 p.m. at Thomason Funeral Home in San Marcos. A graveside service will take place Tuesday, August 3 at 1 p.m. at the San Marcos City Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Thomason Funeral Home. For more information and to sign the online registry, please visit thomasonfuneralhome.com.

Patrick Wayne Dean, age 70, passed away suddenly on July 20, 2021 at Christus Santa Rosa Hospital in San Marcos due to heart complications.  He was born on Saturday March 17, 1951, in San Marcos to

Rita Cook Anderson passed away on July 20, 2021, at 84 years old. Services and interment will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 31st at St. Stephens Episcopal Church, 6000 FM 3237, Wimberley, Texas.

Conway Taliaferro Wharton, Jr. was born in Bulape, Belgian Congo, (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), March 20, 1920, to the Reverend Dr. Conway T. Wharton, Sr. and Ethel Susan Taylor Wharton, who served as missionaries to the Belgian Congo for several years. He attended Missionary Schools in the Congo for his first and second grades. He moved to the U.S.A. in 1928, and continued his education in Sherman, Texas where he lettered in football at Sherman High School. He entered Austin College, Sherman, Texas, in 1938 and graduated in 1942. He lettered in football and basketball at Austin College. He enrolled in Austin Seminary in 1942 and graduated in 1945. It was while he was in the Seminary that he first saw Ann Windrow singing in the First Presbyterian Church choir and told his sister Linda “that's the girl that I'm going to marry.”