FORMER BRENHAM ATTORNEY AND CITY JUDGE JULIAN WEISLER II PASSES AWAY

  

Julian Weisler II, a well-known Brenham attorney and long- time city judge, who had a long tradition of service to the Brenham community, passed away Friday, January 30th

Weisler carried on a tradition of service started by his father, Julian E Weisler. During the Great Depression,poor financial conditions of Blinn College had the possibility of the college shutting down, but due to Weisler’s and other community leader’s farsighted abilities, Blinn College became the first county-owned junior college in Texas.

Weisler graduated from the U.S Military Academy at West Point, and was a decorated combat veteran of two tours of duty in Vietnam. He retired with the rank of full colonel after thirty years of service.

Weisler continued his tradition of public service by serving as president of the Washington County Chamber of Commerce, was president of the Lions Club, president of the Washington County Bar Association, and was commander of Brenham’ American Legion Buddy Wright Post No. 48.

He was also a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, where he served as director of the Lutheran Foundation of the Southwest.

Weisler and his wife Jeraldyne, had two children, Christine Lehde Hunt and her husband Martin, and Caryn Jones and her husband Chris, and one grandson, J.D.  Jeraldyne Weisler passed away in 2004.

In 2006, Weisler married Bonnie Jacoby Webb, a retired educator, in the Chapel at Westpoint..

Up until recently, Weisler had continued a limited law practice in Brenham, and served as the presiding judge of the Municpal Court of the City of Brenham, and served fellow veterans as an advocate of the Texas Department of the American Legion.