Bandera, Texas Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Bandera, Texas & Surrounding Areas
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Charles Barry Ramsey
Jan 8, 2024
Charles Barry Ramsey, 87 years, former resident of Pipe Creek, TX, passed away on January 8, 2024, in Boerne, TX. He was born in Shawnee, OK to Merritt Wales and Gladys Lucile on March 12, 1936. He married Anita on July 14, 1956, whom he met while stationed in Germany and while serving in the US Army. He was a...
Doris Nell Wilson
Jan 8, 2024
Doris Nell Wilson (Hyde), 70, of Bandera Texas, passed away on January 8th, 2024, in San Antonio Tx. She was born in Bandera Tx, to Warren Hyde and Jo Nell Denison-Hyde Cox on January 21, 1953.
She attended school in Bandera Tx and graduated from Bandera High School in 1971. She went to nursing school and graduated from UTHSC School...
Sterling Quinn Gotthardt
Jan 2, 2024
Sterling Quinn Gotthardt age 71 of Bandera, Texas passed away peacefully and went to be with our Lord on January 2, 2024. He was born on February 20, 1952, to Bill and Betty Gotthardt.
Sterling, after serving in the U.S Army, went to the police academy and served SAPD from 1972-2002. In his retirement he spent much of his time...
Olga R. Rodriguez
Dec 31, 2023
Olga R. Rodriguez, 87, of San Marcos, Texas, passed away on December 31, 2023. She was born on May 20, 1936, in San Antonio, Texas, to Jose Ramiro Rodriguez and Leonor Garcia. Olga was a proud graduate of Edgewood High School. She married Jose Angel Rodriguez on April 5, 1959. Olga worked as a craftsman for years at James Avery....
Lloyd Gilbert Hickman
Dec 31, 2023
Lloyd Gilbert Hickman, age 94 years & 7 months, of Bandera, Texas was called home by his Lord and Savior on December 31, 2023, in San Antonio, Texas.
He was born in Cuero, Texas to Robert Loyd and Annie Muriel Hickman on May 31, 1929. Lloyd married his one and only, true love of his life, Donna Jean Johnson on...
Carolyn Renee McDougall
Dec 30, 2023
Carolyn Renee McDougall affectionately known as Renee passed away on December 30th, 2023. She was born on June 20th, 1975, to William Woodrow Jr. and Jean Ellen Bodine. On May 24th, 2008, she married the love of her life Matt McDougall at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church in San Antonio, Texas and on October 26th, 2009, they would welcome...
Beverly Ann Aldridge
Dec 29, 2023
Beverly Ann Gordon Aldridge was born on July 23, 1949, in Little Rock Arkansas to Howard and Louise Gordon. They moved to Harlingen, Texas where she lived with her parents and brother Tom Gordon and sister Helen Simpson.
She met Jimmie Dale Aldridge at the age of 15 and married in 1967. They had four children Jon, Beckie, Kimberly,...
Aida Soledad Ramirez Herrera
Dec 27, 2023
Aida Soledad Ramirez Herrera entered into eternal rest on December 27, 2023. She was born on December 20, 1933 in San Diego, Texas, to Pedro Ramirez and Thelma Garcia Ramirez. Aida was a 1950 graduate of William Adams High School in Alice, Texas, where she earned excellent grades and played on the volleyball team. Shortly after graduation, she married the...
Norman Joel Stephens
Dec 24, 2023
Norman Joel Stephens, 88 years old, of Boerne, Tx, passed away on 24 December 2023. He was born in Edinburg, Tx to Cecil Vernon Stephens and Maggie Jerusha Stephens on 20 February 1935. He was married to Mary Carolyn Stephens on 22 December 1958 in Edinburg, Tx.
He went to high school in Edinburg, Tx and graduated from Texas...
Alexa Olivia Vara
Dec 19, 2023
Alexa Olivia Vara passed away peacefully and suddenly at her home in Huntsville, TX on December 19, 2023. Alexa was born on June 19, 2002 in San Antonio, TX. She would have received her degree in Criminal Justice this coming May from Sam Houston State University. She took her studies seriously and excelled academically. Alexa was working for the Texas...

Teresa Ann Cook
Dec 17, 2023
Teresa Ann Cook of Bandera, Texas passed away on December 17, 2023, at the age of 52.
Services are pending.
Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Bandera Funeral Chapel, Bandera, Texas.
James Russell Garza
Dec 15, 2023
James Russel Garza passed away December 15, 2023, at home in Pipe Creek, Texas. He was born on February 23, 1958, in Carrizo Springs. Texas. He grew in Crystal City, Texas, where he developed lifelong friends through football, playing trumpet in the marching and jazz band and being a mischievous altar boy.
At a young age James moved...
Joan Leoan Wallace
Dec 5, 2023
With humble acceptance of God's will, her children announce the passing of their mother, Joan L. Wallace on December 5th, 2023, to dwell eternally in the house with our Lord and Savior.
She was born in Sandusky, Ohio to John and Margie Smith on June 14, 1931. She married George J. Wallace Sr. on September 22, 1951, in...
Sara Porter
Dec 2, 2023
Long time resident of Bandera County Sara Herzing Porter entered into eternal rest on December 1, 2023, at the age of 80.
Sara Herzing was born in Del Rio, Texas on January 29, 1943, to Elizabeth Nell Swope Herzing and George Murdock Herzing.
In 1955 her family purchased a 50-acre farm and moved to Uvalde, Texas where...
Harry James Hennigar Jr.
Nov 28, 2023
Major (RET) Harry “Jim” Hennigar, Jr., age 90, of Lakehills, TX, peacefully went to be with the Lord while surrounded by family on November 28, 2023. Jim was born in Richmond, Indiana on October 7, 1933. He graduated from Miami University, Oxford Ohio in 1955 as a 2nd Lieutenant, and married Marguerite Sylvia Morton. After receiving his “wings” his...

Charles Tilden Higgins
Nov 20, 2023
Charles Tilden Higgins of San Antonio, Texas passed away on November 20th, 2023, at the age of 78.
Services are pending.
Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Bandera Funeral Chapel, Bandera, Texas.
Leland David Barrett
Nov 17, 2023
Leland David Barrett, 94, of Lakehills, Texas, passed away on November 17, 2023 in Boerne, Texas. He was born on October 2, 1929 to Arthur Garland Barrett and Celeste McLelland Barrett in San Antonio, Texas. He attended Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, and later served in the Army Reserves at Fort Hood. He married Kitty Jean McGaughy...
Douglas Robert Sandidge
Nov 16, 2023
Douglas Robert "Rob" Sandidge, 73, passed from this earth on Nov. 16 at his home in Tarpley.
He was born on Nov. 28, 1949 in San Antonio to G. T. Jr. and Rena Sandidge.He grew up in Bandera County, primarily on the Tarpley Ranch where he died.Rob attended schools in Bandera, where he graduated from Bandera High School in 1968.He...
Randle Lee Alanis
Nov 14, 2023
Randle Lee "Randy" Alanis passed from this life November 14th, at the age of 72, after a lengthy battle with heart disease. The fourth of five sons born to Dan C. Alanis, Jr. and Frances Polvogt Alanis, Randy grew up in and later raised his own family in the town he loved, Bandera. Playing football for the Bandera Bulldogs...
Richard Andrew Powell
Nov 14, 2023
Richard Powell was born in Stanton, Texas to George Adam Powell and Zelma Emma Powell.
He was preceded in death by his older brother, George Eugene, Powell, and sister, Marie Powell Bailey. He is survived by brothers, Revis Leon Powell, and Calvin Powell; his daughters Melissa and Heather Powell, their mother, Wanda Powell, his wife Louise Powell, his stepchildren,
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