Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Voskamp, Earl L. of Hutchins. Age 57. Died 12/25/1978 of cancer in Eagle Lake 
Community Hospital after a long illness. Services held (Wed.) in St.Paul's 
Lutheran Church in Columbus. Burial in Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Columbus. He
was born 11/24/1921 in New Ulm to M/M. Louis A. Voskamp. Married Jo Anne 
Thomas in 1943. He was a mechanical engineering graduate of Texas A&M Univ. 
and a WW-2 veteran of the Army Air Corps, flying 5 B-20 bomber missions in the
Pacific Theatre. He was a construction engineer for Alcoa's Rockdale Works 
smelter, built in the early 1950's and transfered to Industrial Generating Co.,
power supplier for Alcoa, in May of 1953. He was elevated to the Fuel 
Department Supt. and became IGC General Supt. in 1966, as well as an IGC vice-
president. When Texas Utilities Generating Company was formed, Earl 
transferred to Big Brown at Fairfield in 1970, as General Supt. In 1974 he 
moved to Dallas as TUGCO vice-president with responsibilities over company-
wide mining, maintenance and operations. Survivors: Wife, Jo Anne Voskamp of 
Hutchins; 2 sons, Wayne G. Voskamp of Baytown and Thomas A. Voskamp of Katy; 
daughter, Mrs. Roy (Susan) Mobley of Hutchins; parents, M/M. Louis A. Voskamp 
of Columbus and 4 grandchildren.