Bandera, Texas Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Bandera, Texas & Surrounding Areas
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Linda Kemp
Feb 21, 2021
Services for Linda Brown Kemp, 71, of Harper, who passed away Sunday, February 21, 2021 in a Kerrville hospital are pending at Grimes Funeral Chapels of Kerrville.
Jb Pugh
Feb 20, 2021
JB Pugh (80) of Kerrville, Texas was promoted to heaven on Saturday February 20, 2021. JB passed peacefully at home. He was born in Sundown, Texas to Sam Houston and Johnnie Tidwell Pugh on February 12, 1941. He married Judy Mae Harrington on January 10, 1961. They were married until her death in 2001. JB married New Mexico State Representative...
Angela Jimenez
Feb 19, 2021
Angela Ruiz Jimenez went to be with the Lord on February 19, 2021, peacefully in her sleep at home in Kerrville, Texas. She was born on October 1, 1923, in San Antonio, Texas. She married Andres De La Rosa Jimenez on April 2, 1938, in Paint Rock, Texas.\r\n\r\nShe attended school in Eola, Texas. After her mother passed away, she was...
Barbara Riley
Feb 19, 2021
Barbara Gail Riley, 73, of Kerrville, passed away on February 19, 2021 in Corpus Christi after a fierce 4-week battle with COVID. She was a strong woman that always had joy in her heart and a smile on her face. \r\n\r\nShe was born in Fredericksburg to Edgar and Amanda Strackbein on September 7, 1947. She was raised and attended school...
James Alexander
Feb 18, 2021
James Roger Alexander, age 81 of Ingram, passed away on February 18, 2021 in Kerrville. He was born in Kerrville to Doris and Milton Alexander on October 29, 1939. He married Anita Alexander on September 17, 1963 in Ingram.\r\n\r\nHe went to school in Kerrville and graduated from Tivy High School. Although he worked up to three jobs at a time,...
Sara Holcomb
Feb 17, 2021
Sara Jo Williams Holcomb, age 90, of Carrollton, Texas, passed away Wednesday, February 17, 2021.\r\n\r\nShe was born September 16, 1930 in Beeville, Texas, born to Orillian and Vesta (Gentry) Williams.\r\n\r\nSara Jo grew up in Ingram where her mother taught elementary in the Ingram schools. She graduated from Tivy High School in 1948.\r\n\r\nShe married Ronald Wallace Holcomb Jr. on March 13,...
Shirley Gontarski
Feb 17, 2021
Shirley Mae (Enders) Gontarski went to be with her Heavenly Father on February 17, 2021. She was born in Monroe, Michigan to Helen Gertrude and Edwin Henry Enders. Due to circumstances of the Great Depression Era, Shirley was later raised by her Aunt Zelma and Uncle Alton Roe of Detroit, Michigan. She went to Saint Alphonsus Catholic School and where...
Ethel Fitzgerald
Feb 17, 2021
ETHEL JOSEPHINE (TURNER) FITZGERALD\r\n\r\nETHEL JOSEPHINE (TURNER) FITZGERALD, 89 years of age, of Bandera, Texas, passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday, February 17, 2021. \r\n\r\nEthel was preceded in death by Earl Russell Chastain (husband in first nuptials, of Norman, Oklahoma) and Richard "Cotton" Fitzgerald (husband in second nuptials, of Pipe Creek. Texas), as well as by her parents, Thomas Boyd...
Bobbie Powell
Feb 17, 2021
Bobbie Jean Lackey Powell, 84, of Center Point went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, February 17, 2021, after a brief illness. She loved her Lord Jesus Christ and we take comfort in knowing she is now forever with him. \r\n\r\nBobbie loved genealogy and was instrumental alongside of Col. Emmett Townsend in locating and documenting the 32 Texas...
Ellen Deene
Feb 16, 2021
Ellen Maria Deene, 77, of Bandera Tx, passed away on February 16, 2021, in Bandera Tx. She was born in Newark New Jersey to Edward Lehman and Angelina Petrosino. \r\nNo services are scheduled at this time.
Mary Valderaz
Feb 16, 2021
Mary Helen Valderaz, 82, passed away Tuesday, February 16, 2021, and is now at peace with her Heavenly Father. She was born August 15, 1938 at the Y.O. Ranch in Junction, Texas to Juan and Manuela Ayala. She married her longtime friend and sweetheart, Joe Ernest Valderaz, October 18, 1951, who preceded her in death April 15, 2017.\r\n\r\nMary Helen loved...
James Parish
Feb 16, 2021
James (Jim) Leon Parish was born in Sinton, Texas on October 5, 1957 to Paul William Parish and Patricia Ann Halbrook Parish. Jim died on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 in Kerrville, Texas. He was 63 years old. He had one sibling, an older sister, Peggy Lynn Parish. Jim's father preceded Jim in death on February 6, 1967 in Victoria, Texas.\r\n\r\nJim...
Francis Martinson
Feb 15, 2021
Our Mother - Don't know how God decides who gets what mother but he picked a really special one for the three Martinson kids when he gave us Francis Martinson. For seventy-six years since the first one was born till she drew her last breath she has been inspirational, supportive, fiercely loyal, and a true role model to all her...
Juanita Wells
Feb 15, 2021
Juanita Elizabeth Wells passed away Monday, February 15, 2021, in a Kerrville hospital at the age of 89. She was born in Dye Mound, Texas about 4 miles SW of St. Jo, Texas on April 18, 1931 to Cynthia Ann Webb and Alfred C. Webb. She was married to Norman G. Wells for 69 years, having been married on August...
John Barker
Feb 12, 2021
John Richard Barker, 57, of Harper, Texas went to be with the Lord on February 12, 2021. He was born February 14, 1963 in Fredericksburg, Texas to A.B. and Juanita Barker.\r\n\r\nJohn attended school at Harper ISD. He then went on to graduate from TSTC in Waco. He worked as a telephone splicer for 25 years.\r\n\r\nJohn loved ranching, hunting, and fishing,...
Sue Meek
Feb 12, 2021
Peacefully and surrounded by her family, including her devoted Boston Terrier, Puddin, Sue Etchison Meek passed away Friday, February 12, 2021 at her home in Kerrville, TX, four days after her 87th birthday.\r\n\r\nSue was born in McAllen, TX to Evelyn and Horace Etchison, Valley pioneers. Sue was a sixth generation Texan, an attribute she wore with true Texan pride and...
Jerry Revels Iii
Feb 11, 2021
Jerry Henry Revels III, age 66, of Bandera, Texas, passed away Thursday, February 11, 2021, at Methodist Hospital Texsan in San Antonio, Texas.\r\nBorn on January 15, 1955, in Tampa, Florida, to Jerry Henry Revels II and Diane (Murray) Francis, Jerry graduated from Chamberlin High School in 1975 in Hillsborough County, Florida, where he was a dual sport athlete receiving multiple...
Elizabeth James
Feb 10, 2021
Elizabeth Mickelsen James, age 88, retired Bandera County \r\nTreasurer, passed away in San Antonio, Tx. She was born June 24, 1932 to Grant Marshall Mickelsen and Teoline Torgerson Mickelsen in the Colony community in Bee County, Texas. Her first two years of school, she attended the little Colony School, which consolidated with the Pettus, Tuleta, & Normanna School District, where...

Kenneth May
Feb 10, 2021
Kenneth Warren May, 66 of Kerrville, passed away Wednesday, February 10, 2021 in a local care center. He was born January 15, 1955 in Plainview, Texas to Andrew and Lois May.\r\n\r\nHe was a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran with an honorable discharge. \r\n\r\nHe graduated from Casselberry High in Fort Worth where he enjoyed bull riding. He also had a degree in...
Micheal Light
Feb 8, 2021
Micheal (Mike) C Light, age 62, died on February 8, 2021, Kerrville, Texas. He was born August 16, 1958 in San Diego, California to Herman and Anne Light. \r\n\r\nMike moved to Kerrville with his family in 1966. He attended Kerrville schools, graduating from Tivy High School in 1977. After graduation, he joined the U.S. Army, serving from 1977-1983. Mike was...