Blanco County News

CLINTON MCCARTY DEWOLFE, age 95, of Blanco, Texas passed away on Saturday, January 1, 2022. Clinton was born August 5, 1926 in Brownwood, Texas to Clinton Hill & Lauda McCarty DeWolfe. Clinton spent his early years traveling with the family's road show entertaining the oil field crews during the dust-bowl years. In later years, he loved to play sports and was active in the Boy Scouts and earned his Eagle Scout in 1941. The summer after graduating high school in 1942, he enrolled in college courses at Texas Tech. Clinton decided to join the United States Navy on his 17th birthday to serve his country during World War II. He became the youngest commissioned officer in the US Navy. He...

Corrine Hilda Mueller Gass was born on July 3, 1924, the second child of Oscar and Hertha Mueller in Twin Sisters, Texas. After living a long and joyful life, she outlived all family members of her generation and almost all of her lifelong friends. She went to be with her Lord and Savior on April 23, 2020. Corrine's first eight years of education were in a one room schoolhouse in Twin Sisters. She graduated from Blanco High School in 1941. As a young lady she worked as a war time temporary clerk at the Post Office in San Antonio while living with her aunt and uncle. She met her future husband, Karl Sylvester Gass, while working at the Post Office after World War II and they married October...