Obituary

1911-2009

  Hood - Funeral Mass for Magdalene Flusche Zimmerer, 98, of Hood will be held at the Sacred Heart Church in Muenster Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 at 10 a.m.
  Burial will follow in Sacred Heart Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Geo. J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home of Gainesville.
  Magdalene Flusche Zimmerer died at her home on Nov. 5, 2009.
  She was born on Sept. 30, 1911 in Muenster to Joseph Carl and Mary Koelzer Flusche. Magdalene was the sixth of 12 children. She grew up on a Muenster farm, attended school at Sacred Heart School and Our Lady of the Lake College in San Antonio where she received her bachelor’s degree. She married Raymond Zimmerer in Sacred Heart Church in Muenster on May 23, 1939. They were married for 68 years.
  She was a teacher, caregiver, farmer’s wife, loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She maintained the Flusche and Zimmerer Family histories for as long as she was able. Raymond and Magdalene had six children: Ray, Richard, Pat, Linda, Cliff and Mary Jane.
  She is survived by her brother, Urban; two sisters, Mrs. Lawrence (Marie Flusche) Zimmerer and Mrs. Gus (Armella Flusche) Lutkenhaus; four children and their spouses, Ray and Ida Zimmerer of Mabank, Richard and Delores Zimmerer of Grapevine, Cliff and Charmaine Zimmerer of Tampa, Fla. and Pat Zimmerer of Denton; eight grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
  She was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond of Gainesville on June 5, 2007 and two daughters, Linda Kathleen Leijonflycht of Davis, Calif. on August 7, 1998 and Mary Jane of Gainesville on May 9, 1958. Magdalene is also preceded in death by five brothers and their wives, Lawrence, Al, Coonie, JP and Andy Flusche and three sisters and their husbands, Mrs. Henry (Anna Flusche) Henscheid, Mrs. Joe (Ida Flusche) Neu and Mrs. Paul (Marcella Flusche) Fetsch.
  Rosary will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 at the Geo. J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home.
  In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made in memory of Magdalene Flusche Zimmerer to the Sacred Heart School Trust Fund, P.O. Box 97, Muenster, TX 76252.
(Gainesville Daily Register, Cooke County, Texas, Monday, November 9, 2009)