Chapel of Seaside

Jakob N. BakerORANGE GROVE — Jakob Neil Baker died Aug. 18, 2017. He was 28.Services will be at 10 a.m. Aug. 24 at Sawyer-George Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in Robstown Memorial Park.Jesse E. BuentelloJesse E. Buentello died Aug. 16, 2017. He was 65.Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Aug. 25 at Seaside Funeral Home Chapel. Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Aug. 26 at Most Precious Blood Catholic Church.John E. CooperJohn Edward Cooper died Aug. 12, 2017. He was 44. Services will be at 3 p.m. Aug. 26 at New Song Fellowship Church.Saxet Funeral HomeVictor GarciaVictor Garcia died Aug. 20, 2017. He was 70.Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Aug. 24 at Seaside Funeral Home Chapel. Mass will be celebrated at noon Aug. 25 at Ss. Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church. Burial will follow in Seaside Memorial Park.Seferino Garza Jr.Seferino Garza Jr. died Aug. 19, 2017. He was 97.Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Aug. 24 at Funeraria del Angel. Services will be at 2 p.m. Aug. 25 at Funeraria del Angel. Burial will follow in Memory Gardens Cemetery.Lonnie Glasscock IIISAN PATRICIO — Lonnie Glasscock III died Aug. 15, 2017. He was 73.Services will be at 11 a.m. Aug. 26 at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church Hall, Old San Patricio.Resthaven Funeral HomeDoris M. KuhnertBEEVILLE — Doris Mae Kuhnert died Aug. 16, 2017. She was 89.Services will be at 11 a.m. Aug. 26 at First Baptist Church, Beeville. Burial will follow in Beeville Memorial Park.Galloway & Sons Funeral HomeChristopher A. MedinaChristopher Andrew Medina died Aug. 19. He was 27.Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Aug. 24 at Funeraria del Angel Memorial Holly. Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Aug. 25 at Most Precious Blood Catholic Church. Burial will follow in Memory Gardens Cemetery.Ofelia B. SilvaOfelia B. Silva died Aug. 22, 2017. She was 87.Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Aug. 25 at Memory Gardens Funeral Home. Mass will be celebrated at 2 p.m. Aug. 26 at Most Precious Blood Catholic Church. Burial will follow in Memory Gardens Cemetery.Steven A. StrangROCKPORT — Steven ... (Corpus Christi Caller-Times)

S. Open: "We're not trying to embarrass the best players in the world; we're trying to identify them." It's the New Yorkiest line I ever heard, except maybe for Sinatra's "If you can play this town, you can play anywhere."Sandy Tatum, the white-shoe lawyer from San Francisco by way of Stanford and Oxford, was as far from a New Yorker as you could be, but when he died at 96 this summer, I cleared my desk to compose a tribute to golf's unrequited lover.First, some personal memories. A new member at Winged Foot during the inaugural U.S. Senior Open in 1980, I was volunteering in the press tent when word reached us that Sandy, playing in the event, had taken the first-round lead at one under through 10 holes on the East Course. I rushed out to watch him tee off on 11. It was the first time I'd seen him play, a thing to behold. At the top of his backswing, the club came to a complete stop, motionless for at least one full second, before his majestic downswing. The pause at the top remains just about the most amazing golf lesson I ever got.Another time, he invited me for a game at Cypress Point, which he famously had named The Sistine Chapel of Golf. I was playing well above my head when we came to the oceanic par-3 16th hole, two over par, and just trying to break 80. I took out an iron to lay up. He scolded me. "You didn't come 3,000 miles to lay up at Cypress Point," he said. Reluctantly, I went back for my driver and hit two balls into the Pacific. There wasn't a malevolent bone in Tatum's body, but at that moment he had an unmistakable look of satisfaction.The last time I saw him play was in an East-versus-West match. What I remember is the banker John McCoy stomping into the grillroom and muttering in mock disgust, "I just got my ass kicked by a 91-year-old walking 18 holes at Pine Valley!"Sandy's first article for Golf Digest appeared in July 1982, "Irish Whisky, Scottish Gorse, Tom Watson and Me." It was about his "secret" trip to play golf on the Auld Sod with Watson, only at every stop hundreds of Irishmen showed up and sh... (GolfDigest.com)