Margaret W. Anderson, aged 89, died at her home in Kendall County on January 22, 2007.
Margaret was born at home in Caldwell County, Texas on January 12, 1919. Following the death of her father in 1921, Margaret and her mother, Georgia Watkins, joined the family of her aunt and uncle Ada and Theodore Tom, in Campbellton. With a total of five children attending school in Campbellton, the four girls took turns sitting with the only boy in their class.
After graduating from high school at the age of 16, Margaret entered Incarnate Word College in San Antonio with a scholarship and a $500.00 dollar bank loan co-signed by her aunt. She was salutatorian of her class, second only to her best friend, Elizabeth Watson, graduating Magna cum Laude in 1938.
She taught school in several small towns in south Texas, and then worked as office manager for the newly fledged Braniff Airways in Laredo and Corpus. She married Adrian J. Anderson, Jr. of Corpus Christi in 1947.
Margaret and Adrian moved to their home on Spencer Lane in San Antonio in 1954, where they continued to raise their brood of five. With only six years difference in age from oldest to youngest child, they were in almost continuous attendance at various school functions for the next two decades. They were active in various church, business, school, literary, and charitable organizations in Corpus and San Antonio. All five kids were sent to Catholic grade schools and high schools, and each earned at least a bachelors degree from a university.
Adrian managed and then owned San Antonio Brick and Lumber Company on Fredericksburg Road. They brought property in Boerne in 1963 and after selling the lumberyard in 1978 moved to their home on Ranger Creek Road.
Margaret was a former Grand Sultana of the Sultanas de Bejar, a member of the Gibbons Literary Club, a volunteer candy striper for Santa Rosa Hospital, a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She loved her "after mass" coffee clatch with Zella Lorenz and Cresentia Pechacek; Christmas Eve services at the Benedictine Monastery; visiting longtime neighbors and friends Eddie and Virginia Schmidt, Frank and Fina Patton, Louis and Edith Nagy, Dorothy and Billie Busby, Monsignor Manning and many others gone and fading from the landscape.
Margaret missed her husband, her mother and her Campbellton family, loved her children and grandchildren, and drew strength and comfort from her many friends and relatives. She was an avid bird watcher, a mediocre gardener, and raised more livestock than children in her lifetime. Growing up in South Texas, she never learned to swim and believed water was primarily reserved for livestock and that bathing was a secondary luxury. She was continually praying for rain and then blessed her home with holy water when the storms came.
Margaret outlived a succession of family dogs, kept her 410 shotgun at hand for two-or-four-legged varmints, used garden hoes for dispatching rattlesnakes as well as weeds, preferred yard work to house cleaning, worked crossword puzzles and read the newspaper every day of her life. She made fig preserves, baked pecan pies and loved coffee any time of the day. Homemade peach ice cream was her favorite until the hand cranked ice cream maker fell apart. She believed a lifetime warranty on appliances meant her lifetime and not just 40 or so years. She thought prices were too high at the stores and clipped coupons even when she didn't use the products.
She was independent and self sufficient until the day she had to give up driving her black Cadillac. For the next three years a prescription pad note from Dr. Vela to the effect was kept in her wallet, otherwise, she would conveniently forget she wasn't supposed to drive. She always said she wouldn't keep a grudge past her lifetime. She read constantly and never threw away a copy of the National Geographic magazine. She saved glass canning jars, rubber bands and paper sacks. She would wash and reuse aluminum foil and plastic bags. She wrote long letters and never mastered the TV remote, the stereo, or a computer. She lived to watch PBS, the McNeill News Hour, Mystery shows, nature programs and any movie starring John Wayne. Margaret devoted several years to researching her family history and corresponded regularly with relatives interested in genealogy.
Preceded in death by her husband, Adrian, her parents, Georgia and Jefferson Watkins, sisters Aileen Taft and Julia Watkins, and Ada and Theodore Tome and their children, Ted, Lytle, Phil, Ralph, Charlie, and Lillian Marie.
Her sisters-in-law Margaret Sciantarelli and Ardis Anderson, and Mrs. Lytle (Ethel) Tom, Sr., survive her. Adrian and Margaret's children and grandchildren will miss her greatly: Adrian Anderson III of San Antonio, Texas, wife Meg and daughters, Amanda and Helen; Barbara Nugent of Dallas, Texas, husband Michael and sons Michael and Patrick; Susan Anderson of Silver Plume, Colorado, Teresa O' Shaughnessy of Austin, Texas, husband Marc and daughters Jenny and Bridget, and Patrick Anderson of Gages Lake, Illinois, wife Holly and sons Jason and Jonathan, and daughter Megan.
Services and recitation of the rosary were held Jan. 26 in the original chapel of St. Peter's Catholic Church in Boerne. A Funeral Mass was celebrated on Jan.27 and interment followed at the Borne Cemetery.
Margaret was born at home in Caldwell County, Texas on January 12, 1919. Following the death of her father in 1921, Margaret and her mother, Georgia Watkins, joined the family of her aunt and uncle Ada and Theodore Tom, in Campbellton. With a total of five children attending school in Campbellton, the four girls took turns sitting with the only boy in their class.
After graduating from high school at the age of 16, Margaret entered Incarnate Word College in San Antonio with a scholarship and a $500.00 dollar bank loan co-signed by her aunt. She was salutatorian of her class, second only to her best friend, Elizabeth Watson, graduating Magna cum Laude in 1938.
She taught school in several small towns in south Texas, and then worked as office manager for the newly fledged Braniff Airways in Laredo and Corpus. She married Adrian J. Anderson, Jr. of Corpus Christi in 1947.
Margaret and Adrian moved to their home on Spencer Lane in San Antonio in 1954, where they continued to raise their brood of five. With only six years difference in age from oldest to youngest child, they were in almost continuous attendance at various school functions for the next two decades. They were active in various church, business, school, literary, and charitable organizations in Corpus and San Antonio. All five kids were sent to Catholic grade schools and high schools, and each earned at least a bachelors degree from a university.
Adrian managed and then owned San Antonio Brick and Lumber Company on Fredericksburg Road. They brought property in Boerne in 1963 and after selling the lumberyard in 1978 moved to their home on Ranger Creek Road.
Margaret was a former Grand Sultana of the Sultanas de Bejar, a member of the Gibbons Literary Club, a volunteer candy striper for Santa Rosa Hospital, a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She loved her "after mass" coffee clatch with Zella Lorenz and Cresentia Pechacek; Christmas Eve services at the Benedictine Monastery; visiting longtime neighbors and friends Eddie and Virginia Schmidt, Frank and Fina Patton, Louis and Edith Nagy, Dorothy and Billie Busby, Monsignor Manning and many others gone and fading from the landscape.
Margaret missed her husband, her mother and her Campbellton family, loved her children and grandchildren, and drew strength and comfort from her many friends and relatives. She was an avid bird watcher, a mediocre gardener, and raised more livestock than children in her lifetime. Growing up in South Texas, she never learned to swim and believed water was primarily reserved for livestock and that bathing was a secondary luxury. She was continually praying for rain and then blessed her home with holy water when the storms came.
Margaret outlived a succession of family dogs, kept her 410 shotgun at hand for two-or-four-legged varmints, used garden hoes for dispatching rattlesnakes as well as weeds, preferred yard work to house cleaning, worked crossword puzzles and read the newspaper every day of her life. She made fig preserves, baked pecan pies and loved coffee any time of the day. Homemade peach ice cream was her favorite until the hand cranked ice cream maker fell apart. She believed a lifetime warranty on appliances meant her lifetime and not just 40 or so years. She thought prices were too high at the stores and clipped coupons even when she didn't use the products.
She was independent and self sufficient until the day she had to give up driving her black Cadillac. For the next three years a prescription pad note from Dr. Vela to the effect was kept in her wallet, otherwise, she would conveniently forget she wasn't supposed to drive. She always said she wouldn't keep a grudge past her lifetime. She read constantly and never threw away a copy of the National Geographic magazine. She saved glass canning jars, rubber bands and paper sacks. She would wash and reuse aluminum foil and plastic bags. She wrote long letters and never mastered the TV remote, the stereo, or a computer. She lived to watch PBS, the McNeill News Hour, Mystery shows, nature programs and any movie starring John Wayne. Margaret devoted several years to researching her family history and corresponded regularly with relatives interested in genealogy.
Preceded in death by her husband, Adrian, her parents, Georgia and Jefferson Watkins, sisters Aileen Taft and Julia Watkins, and Ada and Theodore Tome and their children, Ted, Lytle, Phil, Ralph, Charlie, and Lillian Marie.
Her sisters-in-law Margaret Sciantarelli and Ardis Anderson, and Mrs. Lytle (Ethel) Tom, Sr., survive her. Adrian and Margaret's children and grandchildren will miss her greatly: Adrian Anderson III of San Antonio, Texas, wife Meg and daughters, Amanda and Helen; Barbara Nugent of Dallas, Texas, husband Michael and sons Michael and Patrick; Susan Anderson of Silver Plume, Colorado, Teresa O' Shaughnessy of Austin, Texas, husband Marc and daughters Jenny and Bridget, and Patrick Anderson of Gages Lake, Illinois, wife Holly and sons Jason and Jonathan, and daughter Megan.
Services and recitation of the rosary were held Jan. 26 in the original chapel of St. Peter's Catholic Church in Boerne. A Funeral Mass was celebrated on Jan.27 and interment followed at the Borne Cemetery.
Margaret W. Anderson, aged 89, died at her home in Kendall County on January 22, 2007.
Margaret was born at home in Caldwell County, Texas on January 12, 1919. Following the death of her father in 1921, Margaret and her mother, Georgia Watkins, joined the family of her aunt and uncle Ada and Theodore Tom, in Campbellton. With a total of five children attending school in Campbellton, the four girls took turns sitting with the only boy in their class.
After graduating from high school at the age of 16, Margaret entered Incarnate Word College in San Antonio with a scholarship and a $500.00 dollar bank loan co-signed by her aunt. She was salutatorian of her class, second only to her best friend, Elizabeth Watson, graduating Magna cum Laude in 1938.
She taught school in several small towns in south Texas, and then worked as office manager for the newly fledged Braniff Airways in Laredo and Corpus. She married Adrian J. Anderson, Jr. of Corpus Christi in 1947.
Margaret and Adrian moved to their home on Spencer Lane in San Antonio in 1954, where they continued to raise their brood of five. With only six years difference in age from oldest to youngest child, they were in almost continuous attendance at various school functions for the next two decades. They were active in various church, business, school, literary, and charitable organizations in Corpus and San Antonio. All five kids were sent to Catholic grade schools and high schools, and each earned at least a bachelors degree from a university.
Adrian managed and then owned San Antonio Brick and Lumber Company on Fredericksburg Road. They brought property in Boerne in 1963 and after selling the lumberyard in 1978 moved to their home on Ranger Creek Road.
Margaret was a former Grand Sultana of the Sultanas de Bejar, a member of the Gibbons Literary Club, a volunteer candy striper for Santa Rosa Hospital, a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She loved her "after mass" coffee clatch with Zella Lorenz and Cresentia Pechacek; Christmas Eve services at the Benedictine Monastery; visiting longtime neighbors and friends Eddie and Virginia Schmidt, Frank and Fina Patton, Louis and Edith Nagy, Dorothy and Billie Busby, Monsignor Manning and many others gone and fading from the landscape.
Margaret missed her husband, her mother and her Campbellton family, loved her children and grandchildren, and drew strength and comfort from her many friends and relatives. She was an avid bird watcher, a mediocre gardener, and raised more livestock than children in her lifetime. Growing up in South Texas, she never learned to swim and believed water was primarily reserved for livestock and that bathing was a secondary luxury. She was continually praying for rain and then blessed her home with holy water when the storms came.
Margaret outlived a succession of family dogs, kept her 410 shotgun at hand for two-or-four-legged varmints, used garden hoes for dispatching rattlesnakes as well as weeds, preferred yard work to house cleaning, worked crossword puzzles and read the newspaper every day of her life. She made fig preserves, baked pecan pies and loved coffee any time of the day. Homemade peach ice cream was her favorite until the hand cranked ice cream maker fell apart. She believed a lifetime warranty on appliances meant her lifetime and not just 40 or so years. She thought prices were too high at the stores and clipped coupons even when she didn't use the products.
She was independent and self sufficient until the day she had to give up driving her black Cadillac. For the next three years a prescription pad note from Dr. Vela to the effect was kept in her wallet, otherwise, she would conveniently forget she wasn't supposed to drive. She always said she wouldn't keep a grudge past her lifetime. She read constantly and never threw away a copy of the National Geographic magazine. She saved glass canning jars, rubber bands and paper sacks. She would wash and reuse aluminum foil and plastic bags. She wrote long letters and never mastered the TV remote, the stereo, or a computer. She lived to watch PBS, the McNeill News Hour, Mystery shows, nature programs and any movie starring John Wayne. Margaret devoted several years to researching her family history and corresponded regularly with relatives interested in genealogy.
Preceded in death by her husband, Adrian, her parents, Georgia and Jefferson Watkins, sisters Aileen Taft and Julia Watkins, and Ada and Theodore Tome and their children, Ted, Lytle, Phil, Ralph, Charlie, and Lillian Marie.
Her sisters-in-law Margaret Sciantarelli and Ardis Anderson, and Mrs. Lytle (Ethel) Tom, Sr., survive her. Adrian and Margaret's children and grandchildren will miss her greatly: Adrian Anderson III of San Antonio, Texas, wife Meg and daughters, Amanda and Helen; Barbara Nugent of Dallas, Texas, husband Michael and sons Michael and Patrick; Susan Anderson of Silver Plume, Colorado, Teresa O' Shaughnessy of Austin, Texas, husband Marc and daughters Jenny and Bridget, and Patrick Anderson of Gages Lake, Illinois, wife Holly and sons Jason and Jonathan, and daughter Megan.
Services and recitation of the rosary were held Jan. 26 in the original chapel of St. Peter's Catholic Church in Boerne. A Funeral Mass was celebrated on Jan.27 and interment followed at the Borne Cemetery.
Margaret was born at home in Caldwell County, Texas on January 12, 1919. Following the death of her father in 1921, Margaret and her mother, Georgia Watkins, joined the family of her aunt and uncle Ada and Theodore Tom, in Campbellton. With a total of five children attending school in Campbellton, the four girls took turns sitting with the only boy in their class.
After graduating from high school at the age of 16, Margaret entered Incarnate Word College in San Antonio with a scholarship and a $500.00 dollar bank loan co-signed by her aunt. She was salutatorian of her class, second only to her best friend, Elizabeth Watson, graduating Magna cum Laude in 1938.
She taught school in several small towns in south Texas, and then worked as office manager for the newly fledged Braniff Airways in Laredo and Corpus. She married Adrian J. Anderson, Jr. of Corpus Christi in 1947.
Margaret and Adrian moved to their home on Spencer Lane in San Antonio in 1954, where they continued to raise their brood of five. With only six years difference in age from oldest to youngest child, they were in almost continuous attendance at various school functions for the next two decades. They were active in various church, business, school, literary, and charitable organizations in Corpus and San Antonio. All five kids were sent to Catholic grade schools and high schools, and each earned at least a bachelors degree from a university.
Adrian managed and then owned San Antonio Brick and Lumber Company on Fredericksburg Road. They brought property in Boerne in 1963 and after selling the lumberyard in 1978 moved to their home on Ranger Creek Road.
Margaret was a former Grand Sultana of the Sultanas de Bejar, a member of the Gibbons Literary Club, a volunteer candy striper for Santa Rosa Hospital, a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She loved her "after mass" coffee clatch with Zella Lorenz and Cresentia Pechacek; Christmas Eve services at the Benedictine Monastery; visiting longtime neighbors and friends Eddie and Virginia Schmidt, Frank and Fina Patton, Louis and Edith Nagy, Dorothy and Billie Busby, Monsignor Manning and many others gone and fading from the landscape.
Margaret missed her husband, her mother and her Campbellton family, loved her children and grandchildren, and drew strength and comfort from her many friends and relatives. She was an avid bird watcher, a mediocre gardener, and raised more livestock than children in her lifetime. Growing up in South Texas, she never learned to swim and believed water was primarily reserved for livestock and that bathing was a secondary luxury. She was continually praying for rain and then blessed her home with holy water when the storms came.
Margaret outlived a succession of family dogs, kept her 410 shotgun at hand for two-or-four-legged varmints, used garden hoes for dispatching rattlesnakes as well as weeds, preferred yard work to house cleaning, worked crossword puzzles and read the newspaper every day of her life. She made fig preserves, baked pecan pies and loved coffee any time of the day. Homemade peach ice cream was her favorite until the hand cranked ice cream maker fell apart. She believed a lifetime warranty on appliances meant her lifetime and not just 40 or so years. She thought prices were too high at the stores and clipped coupons even when she didn't use the products.
She was independent and self sufficient until the day she had to give up driving her black Cadillac. For the next three years a prescription pad note from Dr. Vela to the effect was kept in her wallet, otherwise, she would conveniently forget she wasn't supposed to drive. She always said she wouldn't keep a grudge past her lifetime. She read constantly and never threw away a copy of the National Geographic magazine. She saved glass canning jars, rubber bands and paper sacks. She would wash and reuse aluminum foil and plastic bags. She wrote long letters and never mastered the TV remote, the stereo, or a computer. She lived to watch PBS, the McNeill News Hour, Mystery shows, nature programs and any movie starring John Wayne. Margaret devoted several years to researching her family history and corresponded regularly with relatives interested in genealogy.
Preceded in death by her husband, Adrian, her parents, Georgia and Jefferson Watkins, sisters Aileen Taft and Julia Watkins, and Ada and Theodore Tome and their children, Ted, Lytle, Phil, Ralph, Charlie, and Lillian Marie.
Her sisters-in-law Margaret Sciantarelli and Ardis Anderson, and Mrs. Lytle (Ethel) Tom, Sr., survive her. Adrian and Margaret's children and grandchildren will miss her greatly: Adrian Anderson III of San Antonio, Texas, wife Meg and daughters, Amanda and Helen; Barbara Nugent of Dallas, Texas, husband Michael and sons Michael and Patrick; Susan Anderson of Silver Plume, Colorado, Teresa O' Shaughnessy of Austin, Texas, husband Marc and daughters Jenny and Bridget, and Patrick Anderson of Gages Lake, Illinois, wife Holly and sons Jason and Jonathan, and daughter Megan.
Services and recitation of the rosary were held Jan. 26 in the original chapel of St. Peter's Catholic Church in Boerne. A Funeral Mass was celebrated on Jan.27 and interment followed at the Borne Cemetery.
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