Bandera, Texas Obituaries
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Benno Bauer, Sr.
May 7, 2019
Benno Johnnie Bauer, Sr., 98, passed away May 7, 2019. Private graveside services will be held Wednesday, May 15, 2019, at Garden of Memories Cemetery in Kerrville.\r\n\r\nBenno Bauer was born August 13, 1920 in Albert, TX, the son of Paul August and Ida Ruby Vollmar Bauer. Benno married Ruby Julia Schaper on July 12, 1942 at the Government Hill Methodist...
Floriene Thompson
May 6, 2019
Floriene (Flo) Guillaudeu Sorrell Thompson\r\n\r\nOn May 6, 2019 Flo was called home to her Father and Savior. Flo was born December 17, 1927 to William Guillaudeu and Daisy Monday Guillaudeu in San Antonio. She is preceded in death by her mother and father; Sisters Nell, Martha, Ethel; Brother Bill, and first husband Delbert Sorrell.\r\n\r\nFlo is survived by husband David Thompson,...
Lucy Lara
May 6, 2019
Lucy Lara, a longtime resident of Kerrville, passed away Monday, May 6, 2019 surrounded by her family. She was born October 18, 1923 in Kerrville to Carlotta and Antonio Lara, along with six siblings.\r\n\r\nShe spent many years working at Swan Laundry and the Holiday Inn. She loved gardening, flowers, and taking care of families.\r\n\r\nShe is survived by her brother, Jose...
Audrey Sheftall
May 6, 2019
Audrey Lou Kelley Sheftall, age 94 of Kerrville, passed away Monday, May 6, 2019. She was born on Christmas Day 1924 in Gonzales County to a Texas pioneer family. When she was a child, they moved to Houston during the Great Depression. There, she excelled academically and theatrically as an actress in local productions, but she put her personal ambitions...
Patricia Brown
May 6, 2019
Patricia Jean Brown, age 73 of Kerrville, passed away Monday, May 6, 2019 at her residence. She was born May 24, 1945 in Peoria, Illinois to Kenneth and Natlie Jones.\r\n \r\nPatricia graduated from Woodruff High School in Peoria, Illinois. She worked in nursing, food service and home health care.\r\n\r\nShe was preceded in death by her husband, Donald E. Brown, who...
Joseph Young
May 5, 2019
Joseph Russell Young, age 87, passed on Sunday, May 5, 2019, in San Antonio, Texas. He was born on September 30, 1931, to T/Sgt Joseph T. Young and Gussie Groff Young. \r\n\r\nHe lived on Camp Bullis as a child with his parents and sisters. He attended Brackenridge High School where he participated in football and track. He worked for Groff...
Marion Matey
May 4, 2019
Marion Patricia Matey, 96, of Kerrville, Texas peacefully passed away surrounded by family on May 4, 2019 at a local care facility.\r\n\r\nBorn the fifth of six children on December 17, 1922 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Marion was raised by her older siblings after being orphaned as a young teen. While still enrolled in nursing school, she married her high school sweetheart,...
Ella Dinsmore
May 4, 2019
Ella Lee Dinsmore, 71 of Ingram, Texas passed away May 4,2019 in a Kerrville hospital with her family at her side. Ella was born November 4, 1947 in Missouri Valley, Iowa to Leo and Darlene Torgeson. She was one of four children with three sisters, Leia, Angie and Connie. \r\n\r\nShe was survived by three sons, Brian Arthur Dinsmore of Logan,...
Shirley Kelley
May 4, 2019
\r\nShirley Jean Kelley, 82 years old, of Lakehills, Texas passed away on May 4, 2019 in San Antonio, Texas. She was born in San Antonio, Texas to John H. Reagan and Dicie Laverne (Nixon) Reagan on August 27, 1936. She was married to Clyde "C.O." Kelley on April 16, 1982 in Lakehills, Texas.\r\n\r\nShirley Jean Kelley ended her education at 7th...
Jim Leak
May 3, 2019
James "Jim" Grover Leak, age 77, entered heaven on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Kerrville, Texas. He was born January 31, 1942, to D.S. and Helen Leak of Riverview, Alabama where he grew up.\r\n\r\nThe Air Force took Jim to San Antonio. He met Cathy Mayree Craig at Central Baptist Church where they were married on July 8, 1966. God blessed...
Jonnie Brestrup
May 3, 2019
Jonnie Brestrup, age 95, formerly of Kerrville, died on May 3, 2019. She moved to Amarillo to live at the Continental Retirement Community in 2012. Jonnie was born August 23, 1923 in Post, Texas to Bert and Etta Henderson. \r\n\r\nShe attended Sul Ross College in Alpine until World War II began and worked at Marfa Army Air Force Base where...
Joyce Mcfarland
May 3, 2019
Joyce P. McFarland, 99, of Wimberley, Texas passed away on May 3, 2019 in Kerrville, Texas. She was born in Garland, Texas on July 18, 1919 to Bevie and Robert Perkins. She was the middle child of three siblings.\r\n\r\nShe married Norman Ray McFarland on October 5, 1940 in Houston, Texas. They were married 39 years. She was a member of...
Karla Kersten
May 2, 2019
Karla Joy Kersten, 65 years old, of Kerrville, Texas, passed away May 2, 2019 in Kerrville. She was born July 11, 1953 to Evelyn Anderson and Donald Willard in Estherville, Iowa. She married Charles Kersten on November 11, 2006 in Tierra Linda, Kerrville, Texas.\r\n\r\nShe went to high school in Guam and moved back to the states to finish in California....
Lois Knibbe
Apr 30, 2019
Lois Mildred Fritz Knibbe, 94, passed away on April 30, 2019 at her home in Bandera. She was born in Ottawa, Kansas on November 21, 1924. She married C. D. "Tag" Knibbe on December 5, 1942 in Norman, Oklahoma.\r\n\r\nLois graduated from high school in Ottawa. Then she became a career homemaker most of her married life, having arrived in Bandera...
Duwayne Schwegman
Apr 30, 2019
Duwayne Francis Schwegman, age 82 of Lakehills, passed away Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at his residence. He was born May 26, 1937 in Vinita, Oklahoma to Hubert F. and Elfrida (Gales) Schwegman. On January 2, 1965, he married Iona Webber at the Holy Family Church, Margarita, Canal Zone, Panama.\r\n\r\nHe grew up in Vinita and Pryor, Oklahoma. He served 20 years...
Nanci Perkins
Apr 29, 2019
Nanci Lou Perkins, age 80, of San Antonio, Texas went to be with her Lord and Savior on April 29, 2019 after a long battle with Parkinson's. Nanci was born in Dallas, Texas to Edward Joseph Manger and Frieda Chapman on April 12, 1939.\r\n\r\nNanci graduated from Mesquite High School and later attended business school in Dallas, TX where she learned...
Sam Hill Jr.
Apr 29, 2019
Samuel (Sam) Bernard Hill Jr., 72, of Hunt, passed away on April 29th, 2019 in San Antonio. Sam was born in San Antonio to Samuel Bernard Hill and Sara Meade on October 23rd, 1946 and preceded in death by his parents and brother, Robert Hill. \r\n\r\nHe served two tours in Vietnam as a Seabee in the Navy. He traveled the...
Shari Whitacre
Apr 28, 2019
Shari Glee (Cheesman) (Puckett) Whitacre: June 8, 1940 - April 28, 2019, was born in Lafayette, Indiana, the eldest of 5, and was raised there, until the early fifties when her family moved to Rochester, Indiana. She later married Elias Earl Puckett, became a mother of 6, and worked as a seamstress in Rochester for a number of years, while...
Peter Briley
Apr 28, 2019
No services will be held for Peter Leon Briley, age 72 of Comfort, who passed away Sunday, April 28, 2019 in a Kerrville hospital. Arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Funeral Chapels of Kerrville.
Raul Arreola
Apr 28, 2019
Raul Rodriguez Arreola was called to his heavenly home by his Lord and Savior on Sunday, April 28, 2019. He was born on May 4, 1926, to Corina Rodriguez Arreola and George Silvas Arreola. \r\n\r\nHe was preceded in death by his parents, brother George R. Arreola, and sister Elva Pickens. \r\n\r\nHe is survived by his wife of 65 years, Irene...
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