LONGTIME CIVIC LEADER/EDUCATOR HENRY PETTIE DIES

  

Funeral services will be held next Saturday for long-time Brenham civic leader Dr. Henry Pettie Jr.

Pettie died Thursday at the age of 94.

Pettie served 17 years on the Brenham City Council, representing Ward Two.

Pettie spent 35 years as an educator in Brenham, with Pickard High School, then Brenham High School.

In 1967, Pettie received the Carnegie Medal of Honor after he saved 15 students from a devastating school bus accident.

Funeral services will be held next Saturday at 11:00 a.m. at Mt. Rose Missionary Baptist Church.  Burial will follow in the Prairie Lee Cemetery.

Visitation will take place Friday, from noon to 9:00 p.m. at Lewis Funeral Home in Brenham.