Obituaries must be approved to run by 3 p.m. Monday for the Wednesday edition, or 3 p.m. Wednesday for the Sunday edition. Email to obit@wilcosun.com. Obituaries are $72 and include a close up photo, and up to 250 words. Extra words, or photos can be added for an additional fee.
Barbara Hoernis
May 3, 1933 October 21, 2022 Barbara Hoernis, age 89, passed away October 21, 2022. We invite you to share a message or memory on our online guestbook at www.RamseyFuneral. com She was born to Henry and Hilda Grau on May 3, 1933, in New Athens Township, Illinois. Barbara was one of three sons and six daughters. She was a homemaker, pharmacy technician, and travel agent, and loved cooking, baking, spending time with family, and playing bridge.
She married the love of her life, Robert Hoernis, on June 30, 1951. They enjoyed 69 years of happy marriage and had four children, two sons and two daughters. She and Robert were members of Santa Rosa Catholic Church.
Barbara is preceded in death by her father, Henry Grau; mother, Hilda Grau; brothers, Walter Grau, Charlie Grau, Nicholas Grau; sisters, Millie Steiger, Marie Procasky, Bertha Donley, Ida Miles, Regina Donley.
Barbara is survived by her son, Mark Hoernis and wife Pamela; son, Chuck Hoernis; daughter, Shelley Waterbury; daughter, Jean and husband John Lockwood; granddaughters; Jennifer Dixon, Melissa Eads, Stephanie Jordan, Hayden Coffman and Annelise Johnson; grandsons, Eli Waterbury and Kyle Coffman, and 10 great-grandchildren.
A time of visitation will be held on Sunday, October 30, 2022, from 3-5 p.m. at Ramsey Funeral Home with a Rosary beginning at 4:30 p.m. A Funeral Mass will be held on Monday, October 31, 2022, at 9 a.m. at Santa Rosa Catholic Church in Andice. Burial will follow at 11 a.m. at Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Killeen.
Arrangements made under the care and guidance of Ramsey Funeral Home 5600 Williams Drive, Georgetown, Texas 78633 512-869-7775.