Capt Walter Gage Sterling^[1]

1901 - 1983  (82 years)

• Name	Capt Walter Gage Sterling
  Birth	20 May 1901	Anahuac, Chambers County, Texas, USA   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 Jun 1983	Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA   [2]
  Burial	Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA   [4]
  Person ID	I7247	Tulpehocken Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	Governor Ross Shaw Sterling, Sr,   b. 11 Feb 1875, Anahuac, Chambers County, Texas, USA d. 25 Mar 1949, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Maud Abbie Gage,   b. 21 Nov 1874, Hamilton, Hancock County, Illinois, USA d. 7 Mar 1963, Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	10 Oct 1898	Double Bayou, Chambers County, Texas, USA
  Family ID	F1993	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Ruth Dermody,   b. 17 Dec 1906, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA d. 10 Mar 1998, Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	1942
  Family ID	F1994	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2023

  
  

  Family 2	Frankie (Mofeitt) Sterling,   b. 1 Jan 1906, Chester, Tyler County, Texas, USA d. 26 Dec 1981, Baytown, Harris County, Texas, USA (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F1995	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Founder of Sterling Oil & Refinery Co. (now Tenneco) and member and President of the Board of Trustees for Hermann Hospital for more than 20 years. Earned his law degree from UT in 1925. Son of Gov. Ross Shaw Sterling of Texas and founder of Humble Oil Co.; and Maud (Gage) Sterling. Married Ruth (Dermody) Smith on 30 Jan 1942 in Harris Co., Texas.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] Website: Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree (Reliability: 0). http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=53028956&pid=7248 [S138] Ancestry.com, Website: Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.) (Reliability: 0). [S209] Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc), Year: 1910; Census Place: Houston Ward 4, Harris, Texas; Roll: T624_1559; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 0077; FHL microfilm: 1375572 (Reliability: 0). [S64] Website: Find a Grave [text], https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17856308/walter-gage-sterling.