Obituaries
• Olivia See Asbill, 88, died Feb. 5 and was buried in Grape Creek Cemetery. She was born Aug. 11, 1914 in Tom Green County to Thomas Milton and Olivia See Pritchett Scarborough. She married Thomas Edgar Asbill in Grape Creek in 1937. In 1957, she received a teaching degree from Howard Payne College. She retired from teaching in 1981. She was an active member of the United Methodist Church, serving in various capacities. She was preceded in death by two sons, James Aubrey and Baby Ray. Survivors include her husband Tom of Mason; three sons, Sandy Asbill and Shirley of Tiger, GA, Jack Asbill and Dorothy of Mason and Vernon Asbill and Kate of Carlsbad, N.M.; one daughter, Mary Ruth Roger and Tommy of Kremlin, OK; four sisters, Annie B. Halfmann, Fay Filburn and Jo Scarborough, all of San Angelo and Kate Cain of Graham; six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
• Regina Schaefer, 90, died April 6 in a San Angelo hospital. She was born July 13, 1912 in Rowena to Adolph and Matilda Englert Kloesel. She married Clarence E. Schaefer in Rowena in 1941. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Rowena and St. Ann’s Altar Society. Her husband Clarence preceded her in death in 1990. She is survived by a daughter, Joyce Fine and husband Jimmy of Garden City; three sons, Andrew Schaefer and wife Loretta of St. Lawrence, Clarence E. Schaefer, Jr. and wife Barbara and Earl Schaefer of Rowena; a sister, Eleanor Niehues; nine grandchildren, fourteen great-grandchildren, and others.
• Lillie Ida Jurecek, 87, of Garden City, died May 10 in a Midland hospital and was buried in St. Mary’s cemetery in Hallettsville. She was born Sept. 22, 1914 in Witting to Nick Alois and Caroline Ann Jurecek. She was a member of the St. Lawrence Catholic Church. Survivors include two sisters, Carrie Chudej and Bessie Spraggins of Schulenburg and four god-children, Gladys and Ed Krenek of Schulenburg, Henry and Shelley Chudej of Garden City, Jerome and Pam Chudej of New Ulm and Nick and Valerie Chudej of Baytown. She was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers and one sister.