Bandera, Texas Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Bandera, Texas & Surrounding Areas
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Clyde Beaver
Jun 11, 2019
Services for Clyde Herbert Beaver, age 90 of Center Point, who passed away Tuesday, June 11, 2019 in a Kerrville care center are pending at Grimes Funeral Chapels of Kerrville.
Betty Whittier
Jun 10, 2019
Betty L. Whittier, of Kerrville, Texas, was victorious in her five-year fight with cancer, leaving it behind on her way to a better place on June 10th, 2019 in Kerrville. She was born in Toledo, Ohio, to George and Ivida Bruning on September 13th, 1936. She married Louis Westlund (who is deceased) on November 21, 1959, in Toledo, Ohio. She...
Patrick Murphy
Jun 9, 2019
Patrick Allen Murphy, age 53 of Kerrville, passed away Sunday, June 9, 2019.\r\n\r\nHe was born November 22, 1965 in Kerrville to Patrick Allen and Beverly Jean (Wiggins) Murphy.\r\n\r\nAs a golf pro, he enjoyed golfing and loved his grandchildren.\r\n\r\nSurvivors include son, Zachary Schmitt (Melanie) of Corpus Christi; brother, Stephen Loesberg of Charleston, SC; and grandchildren, Harper and Haylee.\r\n\r\nMemorial services will be...
Denis Gaines
Jun 8, 2019
Denis W. Gaines, Sr., 82, passed away on June 8, 2019 at home in Comfort, Texas. He was born in Sharon, Mercer Co., Pennsylvania to Harry W. and Ruth (neé Koonce) Gaines on April 8, 1937. He married Patricia J. Edmundson Butler on April 18, 1970 in Clute, Brazoria Co., Texas. \r\nHe graduated from PSJA High School in Pharr, Texas,...

Jess Asper
Jun 8, 2019
Surrounded by family, Jess Draper Asper was peacefully called by the Lord for his "next match" on June 8th following a 5 year battle with Primary Progressive Aphasia, a form of Frontotemporal Dementia. \r\n\r\nServices and a celebration of life will be Saturday, June 15th at 1:00 p.m. at Riverside Church of Christ in Kerrville with Pastor LuJack Martinez and son-in-law,...
Dan Bacon
Jun 8, 2019
Dan Wallace Bacon left us on June 8, 2019, surrounded by friends, loved ones and beautiful music. He was born December 17, 1930 in Childress, Texas, the son of Joseph Driver Bacon and Georgia Mae Wallace Bacon. He was raised in Humble Oil pipeline camps across South Texas and the Hill Country. Dan graduated from Alice High School in 1948;...
Patricia Thornblom
Jun 5, 2019
Patricia Jones Thornblom, of Kerrville, Texas, passed away on June 5, 2019 just shy of her 87th birthday. Born in Terrell, Texas to Carl Freeman and Lucille Hopkins Freeman on June 23, 1932, she spent her childhood in Terrell and Longview. She was married to her high school sweetheart, Roy Neal Jones, for 25 years. Pat was a mother, homemaker,...
Janice Shafer
Jun 4, 2019
Janice M. Shafer, age 79, of Flying L Ranch in Bandera, TX and Lakes of the North in Elmira, Michigan departed this world after a series of health issues, on Tuesday, June 4, 2019. She was born in St. Joseph, Michigan to Arnold G. and Maria E. (Antonovitsch) Damaske on February 22, 1940.\r\n\r\nJanice married Richard A. Shafer on January 9,...

Michael Slate
Jun 4, 2019
Michael Wayne Slate, age 57 of Fredericksburg, passed away Tuesday, June 4, 2019 in a San Antonio hospital. \r\n\r\nHe was born August 17, 1961 in Ft. Worth, TX to Milton and Joyce (Berry) Slate.\r\n\r\nNo services will be held.\r\n\r\n
Edward Helms
Jun 3, 2019
Edward Ray Helms, 85, passed away on Monday, June 3, 2019 in Kerrville, TX. He was born in Honey Grove, TX to Dewey N. Helms and Lorene I. Hudgens on May 26, 1934. He married Anita M. Porter on August 5, 1960 in Bonham, TX.\r\n\r\nHe was a veteran of the Vietnam War in the U.S. Army, then went on to...
Betty Tunstall
Jun 2, 2019
Betty Jane Mestayer Tunstall, 82, with family around her bedside, passed away one minute after midnight Sunday June 2, 2019, quietly at St. Francis Hospital in Bartlett, Tennessee.\r\n\r\nBorn on October 18, 1936 in New Iberia, Louisiana, she was one of five children of Felix Charles Mestayer and Maude Delaney Mestayer \r\n\r\nMrs. Tunstall graduated from New Iberia High School and attended...
Nancy Cecil
Jun 2, 2019
Nancy Jo Cecil (Nee Smith), 86, of Bandera, Texas, went home with Lord Jesus on Sunday, June 2, 2019 in Austin, Texas with family at her side. She was born in Mercedes, Texas to Vollie and Lorena Smith on December 19,1932.\r\n\r\nShe married Granvel G. Cecil on March 21,1953 in San Antonio, Texas.\r\n\r\nNancy Jo graduated from Stephen F. Austin high school...
Judith Wright
Jun 2, 2019
There will be no services for Judith A. Wright, 71, of Lakehills, Texas, who passed away on June 2, 2019 in Lakehills. \r\n\r\nShe was born in St. Maries, Idaho to Verner C. and Mildred Danes on June 21,1947.\r\n\r\nShe is survived by her daughter, Tina Blackwood of Fruita, Colorado; sons, Jeffery Grissett of Port Lavaca, Texas, Scot Cota of Portland, Oregon;...
George Oranday
Jun 1, 2019
George R. Oranday of Bandera, passed away unexpectedly on June 1, 2019 in San Antonio, Texas. He was born in Hondo, Texas to Pedro and Gloria Oranday on April 6, 1968. George married his loving wife, Sara Hernandez Oranday two years ago. \r\n\r\nHe is preceded in death by two sisters, both passing away in childhood, Patricia Oranday and Gracie Oranday.\r\n\r\nGeorge...
Polly Collins
Jun 1, 2019
A CAGED BIRD SINGS BECAUSE IT HAS A SONG..... God delivered Polly Ann Collins to us on August 6, 1963 in Ft. Worth, Texas. Her song began there with her parents Howard and Roma Collins and her sister Carrie Collins who survived her. \r\n\r\nPolly died at her home in Kerrville on June 1, 2019 following a brief illness. Polly had...
Rebecca Mcbryde
May 29, 2019
Rebecca (Becky) Ann McBryde, 76, of Kerrville, passed away on May 29, 2019 at Memory Care of New Braunfels. She was born in Longview to Roy Wilson White and Louise Becker White on August 26, 1942. She married R. Nowlin McBryde on July 31, 1965 in Junction, Texas. \r\n\r\nBecky attended Junction High School and later graduated from Texas Women's University....

Helen Williams
May 29, 2019
\r\nHelen Ruth Williams, 93, of Bandera, passed away on May 29, 2019 in Bandera, Texas. She was born in Brookeland, Texas on December 3, 1925 to J. Aaron and Lillie Mae Cooper. She married Wilburn W. Williams in 1942 in Corpus Christi, Texas.\r\nHelen is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and her brother Tony Cooper. \r\nHelen is survived...
Baby March
May 29, 2019
Baby Ray "PoPo" March, 84, of Kerrville, passed away Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital in San Antonio. He was born July 6, 1934 in Tyler, Texas to Garland and Leona March. \r\n\r\nHe is preceded in death by his parents; wife, Edna March; sister, Inez Hampton; and brothers, Roy James March, Bearl March, and Nathaniel...
Ronald Doss
May 27, 2019
Ronald H. Doss, March 6, 1942 - May 27, 2019\r\n\r\nRon was born March 6, 1942 at Mennonite Hospital in Bloomington Illinois. Upon graduation of high school from Bloomington High, he attended Illinois State University for a year before enlisting in the Air Force. While in the Air Force he was trained in Electronics and stationed in Japan. He enjoyed the...
Michael Miles
May 25, 2019
On Saturday, May 25, 2019, Michael Gary Miles passed away peacefully at his home in Harper, Texas at the age of 68. Mike was born on December 1, 1950 in Bethesda, Maryland (hence his proclivity toward the Washington Redskins) to Roy Michael Miles and Anna Marie Krager Miles. \r\nMike spent the majority of his life in Harper, where he has...