Cecil Edward KNEIP

1919 - 1998  (78 years)

• Name	Cecil Edward KNEIP
  Birth	27 Nov 1919	Coupland, Williamson, Texas, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Oct 1998	Victoria County, Texas, USA
  Burial	21 Oct 1998	Memory Gardens Cemetery, Victoria, Victoria, Texas, USA
  	Plot: Section A, Row 32
  Person ID	I13505	von Rosenberg Family Tree
  Last Modified	27 Jun 2022

  
  

  Father	Gustav Adolph KNEIP,   b. 28 Sep 1888, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 20 Dec 1978, Victoria, Victoria, Texas, USA (Age 90 years)
  Mother	Sidone Geradine SCHUHMANN,   b. 24 Sep 1895, Coupland, Williamson, Texas, USA d. 7 Sep 1983, Victoria, Victoria, Texas, USA (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	8 Apr 1914	Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA
  Family ID	F8845	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sylvia Anne CUBA,   b. 3 Jul 1918, Taylor, Williamson, Texas, USA d. 19 Dec 2009 (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	9 Jun 1940	Taylor, Williamson, Texas, USA
  Children	+ 1. Living + 2. Living + 3. Living
  Family ID	F9430	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2014

  
  

• Notes

  Cecil was born on Thanksgiving Day at the Kneip home. He graduated in 1938 from Taylor High School in Taylor, Texas. Later he attended Nixon/Clay Business School in Austin, Texas from 1938 to 1939. Cecil served in the United States Army in World War II from 1942 to 1945 and honorably discharged as a Corporal. He worked for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company as a specialist for 32 years at which time he took early retirement. After retiring he and his sons established 3-K Digging Services, and oil field construction company from 1970 to 1983. Cecil also operated a 60 acre cattle ranch in Goliad County. He served as president of Da Costa Hermann Sons for four years and president of Germania Farm Mutual, Victoria region for 25 years. At the time of Cecil's death, there was a major flood of the Guadalupe River in Victoria and all of Central Texas. It was called the 200 year flood. The river rise in Victoria was six miles wide with massive destruction all along the river. The funeral director told the family that because water was in the cemetery, they may not be able to bury Cecil on the day of his funeral. By the grace of God, the water went down enough to bury him the day of the funeral. Cecil's daughter and her husband lived in Goliad County across the Guadalupe River from Victoria. The day after the funeral they started home for the first time in a week. They traveled 150 miles, crossing the Guadalupe River north of Gonzales, Texas to get home—a trip that was usually a thirty mile drive.