Bandera, Texas Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Bandera, Texas & Surrounding Areas
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Geraldine Minor
Oct 24, 2017
Geraldine A. Minor age 85, passed away October 24, 2017 in a San Antonio hospital after a brief illlness. \r\n\r\n She was born August 25, 1932 in San Antonio, Texas to Teddie Mae Short Smith and Claude Otis Smith. Geraldine married Paul E. Minor November 6, 1954 in San Antonio, Texas. They shared over 50 years of marriage before his...

Sara Goodwin
Oct 24, 2017
Sara Ellen Pace Goodwin passed from this life on October 24, 2017. She was born in Carrizo Springs, Texas January 12, 1944 to John Lewis Pace and Lottie Ethel Ferguson Pace.\r\n \r\nShe had five older brothers, William, John, Charles, Hal and Robert Pace. All of them have passed except Robert. Her brothers gave Sara the nickname "Sissy" when she was...

Marvin Matheny, Sr.
Oct 23, 2017
Marvin Douglas Matheny, Sr., or Dada as he was known to his grandchildren and great grandchildren, was born October 5, 1935 on a small farm in the Rio Grande Valley, and left to join his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in his Heavenly home on October 23, 2017.\r\n \r\nMarvin spent his time growing up on the farm with his four...
David Villanueva
Oct 22, 2017
David O. Villanueva, 70, passed peacefully in the presence of loved ones in his home in Mountain Home on October 22, 2017, after a valiant but difficult battle with a rare form of leukemia.\r\n\r\nThe years of his intricate and colorful life can perhaps best be thought of in 'chapters'.\r\n\r\nChapter One began with his birth on February 24, 1947 to Ygnacio...
Edgar Habenicht
Oct 22, 2017
Arlan Habenicht (aka Ed) age 75 of Bandera passed away on Sunday, October 22, 2017 at his home. He was born to Edgar and Evelyn Habenicht on November 29, 1941.\r\n\r\nArlan went to school in Bandera. After graduation he received an associate degree in electronics. He worked at Kelley AFB and then went to the FAA. He was a member of...
Terrance Bunce
Oct 19, 2017
Terrance Allen Bunce, 71 of Bandera, Texas passed away October 19, 2017 at his home. He had been a resident of Bandera for the past eight years. \r\n\r\nTerry was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota August 12, 1946 to Audrey Thew Bunce and Howard A. Bunce. He had a long successful career in auto sales. He was preceded in death by...
Margaret Kennedy
Oct 19, 2017
Margaret Doyal Kennedy passed away Thursday, October 19, 2017 in Fredericksburg, TX. \r\n \r\nShe was of the Baptist faith.\r\n \r\nShe was born in Grit, TX to E.W. and Dicie Doyal on January 19, 1919. She married Roy Kennedy on November 29, 1936 in Brady, TX.\r\n \r\nMargaret is survived by daughter, June Myers of Llano, TX; grandchildren, Cindy Robertson, Doyal Myers...
Jack Stutts
Oct 18, 2017
Jack Wood Stutts Jr., 76 of Kerrville, Texas passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday, October 18, 2017 surrounded by family following a long illness.\r\n \r\nJack grew up in Dickinson, Texas and was the middle child of Jack Wood Sr. and Jimmie Lou Stutts along with sisters, Thiry and Duena. He put himself through college and graduated from the University...
Sharon Compton
Oct 17, 2017
Sharon Elizabeth Compton, age 73, passed away peacefully Tuesday, October 17, 2017, surrounded by her loved ones. She was born February 15, 1944 in San Saba, Texas to Sherman and Vivian Russell. She married the love of her life, W.D. Compton, February 25, 1967 who preceded her in death in 2009.\r\n \r\nW.D. and Sharon ran Compton's of Kerrville, a successful...
Marvin Speight
Oct 17, 2017
Marvin Eugene Speight, age 95, passed away on Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at Hilltop Village Nursing Home in Kerrville, TX.\r\n \r\nMr. Speight is survived by wife, Faye Ersch; three children, Delores Van Ryan, Malcolm G. Speight and his fiancee, Linda Busick, Pamela J. and her husband, Rick Henegar; nine grandchildren; and seventeen great grandchildren; as well as step-children, Janice Taylor,...
Michael Avallone
Oct 14, 2017
Michael Lee Johnson Avallone, 59, passed away at his home in Bandera, Texas October 14, 2017. He was born December 26, 1957 in San Pablo, California to Nola Mae Barton Johnson and Lee Roy Johnson.\r\n \r\nMichael was preceded in death by his father, Lee Roy Johnson; his mother, Nola Mae Bledsoe; and one brother, Mark A. Johnson Avallone.\r\n\r\nHe is survived...

Pranee Crawford
Oct 14, 2017
Private services for Pranee Crawford, age 78 of Kerrville, who passed away Saturday, October 14, 2017 in a local care center will be held at a later date. Arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Funeral Chapels of Kerrville.
Joanne Price
Oct 14, 2017
JoAnne Elizabeth Price passed into the presence of her Lord and Savior on October 14, 2017 in Kerrville, Texas. She was born in Portland, Oregon to William and Marian King on November 2, 1945. She was the firstborn child of five sisters. She married C.B. Price March 18, 1978 in Houston, Texas. They were married thirty-nine years.\r\n \r\nIn 1963 after...
Homberto Pruneda
Oct 14, 2017
Homberto H. Pruneda, 79, of Kerrville, Texas passed away on October 14, 2017 in Kerrville. He was born in Kerrville to Roy and Lilia H. Pruneda on December 4th 1937. He met Dolores Pruneda in San Diego, California and they were married on December 24th 1962. \r\n \r\nHe went to school at Tivy High School. He joined the Marine Corps...
Marian Kerlin
Oct 12, 2017
Marian Annabelle Kerlin, 90 years of age, passed away Thursday evening, October, 12th, 2017. She was born in Alden, Iowa on August 5th, 1927, to Gustaf and Lillian Pingel. She attended Drake University and graduated from the nursing program at Polk County Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa on March 31st, 1949. Her nursing career started with the Veterans Administration (VA)...
Marion Hedges
Oct 11, 2017
Marion Anne Hedges passed away Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017. She was born on June 25, 1937, in Philadelphia and raised in Norristown, Pennsylvania, by her parents Leonard and Anne Rotz. \r\n\r\nAfter graduation, she attended nursing school but put those plans on hold to marry her high school sweetheart, Joseph T. Oliver. As an Air Force wife, she traveled the world...
Henry Peters Jr.
Oct 10, 2017
Mr. Henry Lee Peters Jr., age 70 of Kerrville, passed away Tuesday, October 10, 2017 in a San Antonio hospital. He was born December 3, 1946 in Houston to Henry Lee Peters Sr. and Arti Marie (Satterwhite) Peters. On February 20, 1999, he married Mary Jane Schmidt.\r\n \r\nMr. Peters never met a stranger. He was a mechanic, loved talking to...
Mary Sharpless
Oct 10, 2017
Mary Sophia Nordstrand Sharpless of Kerrville, Texas, was born January 26, 1924, in Houston and died Tuesday, October 10, in Atascocita, Texas. She was 93 years old. She is predeceased by her husband of 39 years, Ralph Granville Sharpless; and her two sons Ralph Minter Terry of Houston and Charles Raymond Terry of Anaheim, CA.\r\n \r\nBorn in 1924 in Houston,...
Ofelia Garcia
Oct 9, 2017
Ofelia Garcia, age 92, was born on September 10, 1925, in Saspamco, Texas to Octavio and Florinda Ybarra Valero. She died peacefully at her home, surrounded by her family on Sunday, October 8, 2017. \r\n \r\nDuring her life she worked for several years as a Custodian for Tivy Elementary, and various hotels in Kerrville. At an early age, she picked...

Angel Vela
Oct 9, 2017
No services will be held for Mr. Angel Vela, age 78 of Kerrville, who passed away Monday, October 9, 2017 in a local hospital. Arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Funeral Chapels of Kerrville.