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Bandera, Texas Obituaries

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William Hale

William Hale

Apr 27, 2017

George Hale was a funny, spontaneous, and charming Texas gentleman who loved his wife, his dogs, his garden, his friends, and his life.\r\n \r\nWilliam "George" Hale was born in East Bernard, Texas, the only child of Martin Hale and Alice Mae Thomas Hale. He spent his early years in Eagle Lake, Texas, his mother's hometown, where his father was the...

Gary Mcdonald

Gary Mcdonald

Apr 26, 2017

Gary Calvin McDonald, age 73 of Kerrville, passed away Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at his residence. He was born November 26, 1943 in Chino, CA to J.C. Johnson and Marion Saunders. \r\n \r\nGary was a longtime bullrider who got his start in Bakersfield, CA. He was always looked up to as a bullriding mentor. \r\n \r\nHe was preceded in death...

Maria Castillo

Maria Castillo

Apr 26, 2017

Maria M. Castillo, age 85, of Kerrville, passed away on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, at her home. She was born on May 8, 1931, in Uvalde, TX, to Ignacio and Ruperta Morales Maldonado. On January 23, 1947, she married Pablo Castillo.\r\n \r\nMrs. Castillo is survived by her husband of 70 years, Pablo Castillo; 2 daughters, Connie Lara and Elsa Alvarado;...

Nancy Frazier

Nancy Frazier

Apr 25, 2017

Nancy Kay (Maness) Frazier\r\n\r\nNancy Kay (Maness) Frazier, 71, of Pipe Creek, Texas, went home to her Lord and Savior on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 in Bandera, Texas. She was born on February 28, 1946 in San Antonio, Texas, to Roland and Frances (Moroney) Maness.\r\n\r\nNancy was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother. She was devoted to her husband of 52 years,...

John Eastland

John Eastland

Apr 24, 2017

John James Eastland was born in Kerrville, TX on February 22, 2017 and returned to heaven on April 24, 2017. John's wonderful life was filled with love and joy surrounded by his devoted family. His three brothers, Edward, Andrew, and Walker, loved to pet and hold their baby every chance they got. The celebration of John's baptism was held on...

Gwendolyn Altwein

Gwendolyn Altwein

Apr 23, 2017

Gwendolyn Altwein, 88 years old, died in Hospice at River Hills Nursing and Rehab on Sunday, April 23, 2017. She was born in Sherman, Texas on January 16, 1929, the daughter of Don and Ava Evans, now deceased. In 1960, she married Virgil Altwein.\r\n \r\nAfter graduating from Lee College with many honors, she became a Regent of that institution in...

Richard Rouse

Richard Rouse

Apr 23, 2017

Richard Wilson Rouse, 87, passed away Sunday, April 23, 2017, in Kerrville, TX. He was born in Media, PA, January 9, 1930, to parents Wilson Milton Rouse and Rachel Rivenburgh Rouse. His family moved to Griffing Park in Port Arthur, TX, where he grew up and graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School. He attended Texas A & M University, where...

Richard Mccall

Richard Mccall

Apr 22, 2017

Services for Richard B. McCall, age 60, of Bandera, who passed away Saturday, April 22, 2017 at his residence are pending at Grimes Funeral Chapels of Bandera.

James Peril

James Peril

Apr 22, 2017

\r\nJames Edward (Jimmy) Peril, age 74, passed away on Saturday, April 22, 2017, in the Southwest Methodist Hospital, San Antonio, TX. He was born October 16, 1942 in Fredericksburg, TX to J.R. and Dixie (Baker) Peril. He married Johnnie Kay Barnett on December 28, 1963 in Marble Falls, TX.\r\n\r\nJimmy attended school in Harper, TX. He and several of his classmates...

Patricia Jackson

Patricia Jackson

Apr 18, 2017

Patricia Rudd Jackson was born September 24, 1929 in Belpre, Kansas. She grew up in Tribune, Kansas in a wheat-farming family that valued respect, thrift, loyalty, and patriotism. Like her older sisters Ruhe and Shirley, she was her high school's valedictorian. In 1948, Pat submitted an essay titled "I Worked in Wheat," to Seventeen Magazine. She described feeding both the...

Opal King

Opal King

Apr 18, 2017

Services for Opal Ruth King, age 88 of Kerrville, who passed away Tuesday, April 18, 2017 in a local care center will be held at 7:30 PM, Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at the Kerrville Apostolic Church officiated by Dustin Coon. Visitation will precede the service from 7:7:30 PM at the Kerrville Apostolic Church. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Funeral...

Edna Fry

Edna Fry

Apr 18, 2017

Edna Mae Fry, of Kerrville, passed away on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at Hilltop Village Nursing Home in Kerrville, Texas. She was born in Holly Ridge, NC to Andrew Devon Ennett Sr. and Addie Florence (Taylor) Ennett on December 11, 1925. She married Harry Dean Fry on January 2, 1946 in Holly Ridge.\r\n \r\nShe went to school at Holly Ridge...

Carroll Fogle

Carroll Fogle

Apr 17, 2017

Carroll Reed Fogle, 82 of Kerrville, Texas, went to be with the Lord on Monday, April 17, 2017. He was born Phoenix, Arizona to Carroll Edward Fogle and Barbara Bertha Sigman on April 6, 1935.\r\n \r\nHe went to school at Phoenix Elementary and graduated from Phoenix High School. He worked as a Head Sanitation Department Manager for Rainbow Baking Co....

Frances Wilkinson

Frances Wilkinson

Apr 17, 2017

Frances Angelina (Aloisi) Wilkinson passed away Monday, April 17, 2017, at her home in Harper, Texas, with her sons and daughter-in-law at her side. \r\n \r\nShe was born April 14, 1932, in Benld, Illinois, to Guido and Lora (Sawyer) Aloisi. \r\n \r\nShe was a 1953 graduate of St. Joseph's Nursing School in Alton, Illinois, and worked as a Registered Nurse...

Cathy Clamon

Cathy Clamon

Apr 15, 2017

Cathy Lee Clamon passed peacefully at her home in Bandera, Texas on April 15, 2017. She was born in Corpus Christi at the Naval Hospital to the parents of Loyd and Alice Gardner on May 26, 1956. \r\n Cathy's adventurous spirit began as a childtraveling with her father, who was in the United States Navy. She was interested in all...

Joe Valderaz

Joe Valderaz

Apr 15, 2017

Joe Ernest Valderaz was born May 8, 1939 in Comfort, Texas. \r\n \r\nHe was preceded in death by his mother, Estella Valero Alcorta and his father, Joe Valderaz; his daughter, Esther Valderaz; three brothers, Jimmy Alcorta, Ben Alcorta and Simon Valderaz; two sisters, Emma Ontiveros and Betty Guerrero.\r\n \r\nHe is survived by his loving wife of 63 years, Mary Helen...

Vicki Kneese

Vicki Kneese

Apr 14, 2017

Vicki Lynn Kneese of Kerrville, Texas, went to be with the Lord on April 14, 2017.\r\n \r\nA memorial service will be held at 2 PM, Sunday, April 23, 2017 at the Seventh Day Adventist Church, 611 Harper Road, Kerrville, Texas.\r\n \r\nShe was born September 14, 1949 in Burbank, California to Maxine and Ben Burger. \r\n \r\nVicki married Wayne Kneese on...

Marjorie Bailey

Marjorie Bailey

Apr 10, 2017

Marjorie Lee Bailey, age 94, passed away Monday, April 10, 2017 in Kerrville, Texas. She was born in Camp Verde, Texas to Silas and Maude Tucker on September 29, 1922 but moved with her parents to Kerrville as an infant and lived there all her life.\r\n \r\nShe graduated from Tivy High School in 1940 and attended Southwest Texas State Teachers...

Karen Barlow

Karen Barlow

Apr 9, 2017

Karen Ann Barlow, age 72, of Portland, Texas died Sunday, April 9, 2017 after a short illness. Karen was born on October 12, 1944 to T.S. and Marie Barclay in Pampa, Texas. Karen was raised in Plainview, Texas where she married her high school sweetheart, Jerry Gearhart. Karen and her husband relocated to Kerrville, Texas where they raised their children....

Gay Medina

Gay Medina

Apr 9, 2017

Gay Lynn Medina, 60, of San Antonio, TX, passed away on April 9, 2017 in San Antonio. She was born in \r\nSeguin, TX to Henry and Dora Brucks on August 6, 1956.\r\nShe Married Frank G. Medina on December 23, 1978 in Bandera, TX.\r\n\r\nShe was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Sharon Peck-Jones.\r\n\r\nGay Lynn is survived by her...