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Bill Grobowsky

Bill Grobowsky died peacefully at his home in Lockhart Texas of Alzheimer disease at the extraordinary age of 91. Bill was raised on the family farm in the German community of Neiderwald Texas and spoke only German when he started school. Bill met his best friend and the love of his life La Nelle Harris Waldrip while attending a dance at Roger's Ranch. They married on July 4th 1941. They had their only child Sandra Merle on January 22, 1943: There
has never been anything more important to Bill than his family. He has been an incredible husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. We are all better people because he loved us. Bill and La Nelle were married 67 years before La Nelle's passing on November 24, 2008. We take great comfort in knowing they are together again. Bill retired from the Texas State Comptroller's Office after 20 years of service in 1981.BiII was an avid outdoors man. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, working in his yard and growing beautiful bougainvilleas. Bill and La Nelle loved to travel. Their favorite trips were to Las Vegas, Nevada. Bill was a very caring, gentle man with a strength we all envy. He always had a smile on his face, a good joke to share and love in his heart. To know him was to love him and to be loved by him was to feel safe, happy and cared for. There are not words to properly express how much he will be missed. Bill is preceded in death by his parents Mamie Cash and Emil August Grobowsky Sr., his loving wife, La Nelle Harris Grobowsky. three brothers Hilmer, Alvin and Emil Jr. Grobowsky and his great grandson Brandon Douglas Pineda. Bill is survived by his sister Stella Englke and her family, a daughter Sandra Grobowsky Douglas and her husband Ron Fleming, his grandson William Montgomery (Monty) Douglas, his granddaughter Tracy Nelson and her husband Ben Nelson and his great granddaughter Amanda Paige Bingman.The family would like to thank the staff (Ann and Roger) of CTMS Hospice, and Bill's care givers Norma Jean and Daniel. A special wink goes out to Debra Stanton for the care and comfort she has given Bill and La Nelle over the past year. She has our deepest gratitude. Funeral service will be held at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at the Eeds Funeral Home Chapel with Chaplain Roger Hagen officiating. Interment will follow at Lockhart City Cemetery.

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