Obituaries

Thomas James LePage, 86, went to be with our Lord on Friday, June 11, 2021. He was born to Dorothy (Riske) and Phillip LePage in Virginia, Minnesota. Tom was preceded in death by his parents; sister, Mary Ann Vitko and brother-in-law John Vitko; and son-in-law Karl Kraklow. He is survived by his wife Eleanor and their four children; Nanette Kraklow, Mary Dunn (Paul), Lisa Stinson (Al), Jim LePage (Peg); five grandchildren, Jason Dunn (Mary Clayton), Meredith Lewis (Toby), Kara, Avery and Theron LePage; seven great grandchildren; and his brother Larry (Mary Ann).

Rilla Joy Harlin Kitchen, 82, currently of Wimberley, Texas passed away Wednesday, 5/26/2021 following a 6-month battle with post-surgical complications. She graduated from University of Oklahoma in 1961 as a Physical Therapist and served her patients, both adult and pediatric, with passion until her retirement in 1999. She and her husband Earl W Kitchen are members of the Wimberley Birding Society and enjoyed many domestic and international journeys with the birding club and personally. They have also been active members of the Wimberley United Methodist Church since her retirement. She is preceded in death by her parents, Varney S and Ellen Marie Harlin and her infant sister, Reta Gay. She is survived by her husband of 61 years, Earl W Kitchen, whom she met at NW Classen High School in Oklahoma City and married on December 27, 1960 in the Wesley United Methodist Church. She is also survived by her three children, Kari Kitchen, Kraig Kitchen, his wife, Jenny, and their combined 4 children, and Kristin Myers, husband, Anthony, and their 4 children. In addition, she is survived by her brother, Gary Harlin, his wife Janet, their children, Lori Dierckes, her husband Tad, their 3 children and Brad Harlin, his wife Jennifer, their combined 2 children as well as many cousins, nieces, and nephews.

Lela Bond (Underwood) was born in Haskell, Oklahoma on November 16, 1939 and she passed to her eternal home on May 31, 2021. It was fitting that it was Memorial Day as she knew that her freedom was won by the sacrifice of Another. Lela’s family moved to California when she was a child and it was there she met another Okie, Raymond Bond, whom she married in 1958. Ray worked as a steel scaffolder and Lela attended junior college and stayed home as they started a family. In 1971 they loaded their belongings in a truck and car and with four children, 3 daughters and a son, they made their way to Alaska. The last frontier felt like a land of opportunity. When the kids were asked if they needed their beds or bikes more, it was the bikes that got loaded on the truck and in 1972 another son was added to the family.

Vicente E. Martinez, loving husband, father and grandfather, passed peacefully among loved ones on Thursday, June 3, 2021 at the age of 86 in Wimberley, Texas.

On Thursday, May 27, 2021, Chelsea Nicole Tijerina was suddenly and tragically taken from her village.

Patricia Joyce McDade, born on January 5, 1929 has recently passed away on May 27, 2021 at Alexia’s Pointe, in Wimberley, Texas.

Alan Colwell, 37, of Wimberley, Texas, died on Tuesday, May 25, 2021. Services will be held at a later date, still to be determined. Arrangements were under the direction of Thomason Funeral Home. For more information and to sign the online registry, please visit thomasonfuneralhome.com.

Nancy Ann Emerson, 81, of Paris, passed away Sunday, May 23, 2021, at Texoma Medical Center in Denison.

Becki Smith passed away from complications associated with a brain tumor on May 4, 2021 in Hays County, Texas. She was buried at Windham Cemetery, Lake Brownwood, Texas on May 6.

Shane Ball, 34, of Huntsville and Wimberley, Texas passed away on Monday, May 24, 2021 after being in the ICU unit for eight and a half weeks due to complications caused by Covid.

On Friday, May 7, 2021, James “Jim” Allen Bertelsen, loving father of two children, passed away at the age of 71.

John “Jack” J. O’Reilly, 79, of Wimberley, Texas passed away suddenly at his home on Saturday, May 8, 2021.

A One of Kind, a man of true grit, Alfred M. “Tuffy” Davis, 96, passed away, Tuesday, May 11, 2021 in Austin, TX. Tuffy was born in Austin, TX on 1st and Waller at home to Arnold Davis and Myrtle Bryant on December 14, 1924. He attended schools at Henley, Mt. Gainor and Dripping Spring, TX. He graduated in 1944 from Dripping Springs, TX in a class of 13 and all 13 men and women served active duty during WWII and all came home.