Bandera, Texas Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Bandera, Texas & Surrounding Areas
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Harriett Hinds
Oct 7, 2017
No services will be held for Harriett O'Bryan Hinds, age 68 of Ingram, who passed away Saturday, October 7, 2017 in a San Antonio hospital. Arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Funeral Chapels of Kerrville.
Samuel Hoover
Oct 6, 2017
Samuel Hoover, 94, of Kerrville, Texas passed away on Friday, October 6, 2017 in Del Rio, Texas, which would have been he and Elaine's 67th wedding anniversary. He was born in Columbia, Tennessee to Samuel Hoover and Alma Lee Regen on October 17, 1922. He married Elaine V. Johnson on October 6, 1950 in Abilene, Texas.\r\n \r\nHe graduated from ACC...
Richard Echterhoff
Oct 6, 2017
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the death of Richard Allen Echterhoff, aged 52, on Friday, Oct 6 2017. He is survived by his parents Douglas Echterhoff and Ginger Bright, his sister Donna Florencio, his life partner Elizabeth Dorsey, his children Zachary Turner and Allyson Harmmeling and 5 grandchildren.\r\n\r\nRichard was an avid dancer and was always surrounded by...
James Forrest
Oct 6, 2017
James Lee (Jim) Forrest, 88, passed away Friday, October 6, 2017 after a tough battle with cancer and ensuing complications. Jim was born in Ohio in 1929 with his family moving to Texas in his early school years. He graduated from Weslaco High School and then Southwest Texas State College (now Texas State). He held three college degrees, entering the...
Lois Abbott
Oct 3, 2017
Ms. Lois (Mamaw) Irene Rhoades McHaney Abbott was born June 8, 1934 in Morgan County, Indiana to Bert Rhoades and Ellen Warriner Rhoades. She graduated from Mooresville, Indiana High School in 1952, and has called the Texas Hill Country home since January of 1953. Her love for her many rescue dogs was only surpassed by her love for her children...
Gene Dromgoole Jr.
Oct 3, 2017
Gene Louis Dromgoole Jr., 62 of Junction, Texas passed away on Tuesday, October 3, 2017 in Kerrville, Texas. He was born in San Antonio, Texas to Gene Louis Dromgoole Sr. and Lois Maxine Smith on October 12, 1954. He married Gloria Jean Welsch on June 6, 1986 in Houston, Texas.\r\n \r\nHe was preceded in death by his parents, Gene and...
Lucy Potts
Oct 2, 2017
Lucy Anne Engle Potts, age 92, left this world for her home in Heaven on October 2, 2017, after a brief illness. She was born on the family farm near Sheridan, Missouri, July 9, 1925, the fourth child and only daughter of Milton and Geneva Grace (LaMar) Engle. She married Lyle Harrison Potts in Maryville, Missouri on August 23, 1947....
Eloise Massey
Oct 2, 2017
Eloise Massey, a resident of Hunt and Kerrville since 1983, passed away last month in Kerrville, TX. She was born in Floresville, TX in 1923. She graduated from Corpus Christi high school in 1941 and the University of Texas in 1945. Following graduation she worked as a secretary for Humble Oil until becoming a full time mother.\r\n \r\nShe met Clyde...

Fred Davis Jr.
Oct 2, 2017
Mr. Fred Davis of Fredericksburg, Texas passed away at 7:00am on the 2nd of October 2017 at the age of 78. Fred was born in Denver, Colorado to Fred Davis Sr. and Ruth Davis on May 16th, 1939. Fred graduated from Allen Academy in Bryan College Station and then on to Lon Morris Jr. College in Jacksonville, Texas where he...
Norman Straumann
Oct 1, 2017
Norman John Straumann, age 83 of Ingram, went to join his Lord on October 1, 2017. Blest be his memory. \r\n \r\nHe was born November 3, 1933 to Ben and Helena (Trebesh) Straumann in Wabasso, Minnesota. They later moved to a farm in Springfield, Minnesota. He attended country school and was a member of Zion Lutheran Church.\r\n \r\nHe served his...

Helen Cuyler
Oct 1, 2017
Helen Morris Young Cuyler of La Vernia, TX went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, October 1 2017. Helen was born in Beeville, TX to Bennett and Lolita Morris on January 29th 1947. She married Wayne Young in 1967 in Beeville, TX where they raised four wonderful children. She later married Stan Cuyler on July 3rd 2003 in...
Len Bradford
Oct 1, 2017
Leonard F. (Len) Bradford passed away on Sunday, October 1st at his home in Kerrville with family members at his bedside. He was born on October 10, 1926 in Ranger, Texas to Ester and Lucille Matthews Bradford. His father was a tool dresser on the drilling rigs of the time and the family moved around west Texas with each new...

Frank Kubica
Sep 30, 2017
A. Frank Kubica of Kerrville, Texas, passed through heaven's gate Saturday morning September 30, 2017. He was 86 years old. Frank was born January 1, 1931 in Rosenberg, Texas to A.W. and Della Kubica. In 1976 in Midland, Texas he married Janice Branson, and they moved to the Hill Country when he retired.\r\n \r\nA graduate of University of North Texas,...

Linda Winkler
Sep 29, 2017
Services for Linda M. Winkler, age 74 of Kerrville, who passed away Friday, September 29, 2017 in a local care center are pending at Grimes Funeral Chapels of Kerrville.
Floyd Lewis
Sep 29, 2017
Floyd Lewis was called home to be with the Lord on Friday, September 29, 2017 in Kerrville, Texas. He was born on February 14, 1920 to the parentage of Paul and Beulah Lewis in Chappell Hill, Texas. He moved to Kerrville in 1944 and on December 24, 1947, he was united in Holy Matrimony to Miss Ellie V. Foley. To...
Martha Brown
Sep 28, 2017
Martha Ann (West) Brown, 82, of Medina Texas passed away on September 28th, 2017 at her residence. She was born in Lost Prairie, Arkansas to Emmett and Carrie West on November 12th 1934. She married James Ellie Brown on February 12th, 1954 in Texarkana, Arkansas. She went to school at North Heights High School in Texarkana, Arkansas. She was a...
Al Langston
Sep 27, 2017
Al Langston \r\n\r\nAl Langston, 85, a former San Antonio resident, passed away on September 27, 2017 in Boerne. He was born in Jackson Township, Minnesota to Florence and Walter Langston on March 4, 1932.\r\n\r\nAl served his country honorably in the Army during the Korean war. Although he lived in many different places, he settled in San Antonio, where he raised...
Robert Shearhart
Sep 25, 2017
Robert H. Shearhart, 59, of Medina, TX passed away on Monday, September 25, 2017 in Medina.He was born in Colorado Springs, CO, to Jim and Patricia Shearhart on May 5, 1958. He married Julie Spencer on July 21, 1979 in Mound Valley, KS.\r\n\r\nCoach Shearhart attended elementary school in La Puenta, CA before moving with his family to Mound Valley, KS...
Audrey Shader
Sep 22, 2017
Audrey Lynn Burrow Shader, 29, of Kerrville, TX went to be with the Lord on Friday, September 22, 2017 in San Antonio, TX. She was born in Boise City, OK to Fred and Sherry Burrow on April 22, 1988. She married David Shader in June 2016 in San Antonio, TX.\r\n \r\nAudrey was raised in Keyes, OK, a small town in...
David Adcock
Sep 21, 2017
David Ray Adcock, age 51, born June 19, 1966 in Kerrville, Texas, passed away Thursday, September 21, 2017. \r\n \r\nDavid was full of life during which time he delivered the San Antonio Express News newspaper and was also a volunteer fire fighter in Kerr County. He loved helping people in general.\r\n \r\nHe was preceded in death by parents, Dave Everette...