Elda Lena Windwehen Kaine

Elda Lena Windwehen Kaine, 101, passed away Saturday, July 9, 2016.  She was born October 15, 1914 in the Greenwood community of Gonzales County to Edmund and Martha Roeber Windwehen.  She had been a member of The Presbyterian Church and the Gonzales County Family and Community Education Club formerly the Home Demonstration Club for 60 years.  Elda married Jake Kaine on November 7, 1936 in San Antonio.  She had worked many years as the switchboard operator for Warm Springs Hospital in Ottine.   

Elda grew up in the Greenwood Community, attending school and church in Greenwood.  As a youngster Elda worked alongside her family, picking pecans, working in the cotton and corn fields, processing hogs, cattle and chickens to put meat on the table.  She loved making homemade sausage and baking fruit cake using a generations old family recipe.  Elda always put in a garden and kept the rows meticulously free of weeds.  And she loved canning her garden produce and sharing it with family and friends.  At the age of fourteen, Elda moved to San Antonio to care for the children of a local San Antonio physician.   Elda worked hard all of her life, that was just her way.  She enjoyed cooking and no one came to her house without eating or leaving with something to eat.  She was an avid competitor at dominoes.  But most of all, Elda loved her church and her faith.  When she was still able she would pick children up on Sunday mornings and drive them to Sunday school on her way to church.

Elda Kaine is survived by her loving daughter and son-in-law, Sharon and Lennie Mikesh of Gonzales and two granddaughters, Kristen Dawn Mikesh and Khara Lynn Mikesh of Bryan, also numerous adoring nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews.   She was preceded in death by her husband, parents and a brother, Karl Robert Windwehen. 

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 10 a.m. in Seydler-Hill Funeral Home with Pastor Diana Whitley officiating.  Interment will follow in Hermann Sons cemetery.  Pallbearers:  John Windwehen, Jimmy Windwehen, Charles Windwehen, Bill Keck, Lynn Sheffield,  Bubba Mikesh, and Ray Colmenares.  Honorary pallbearers:  Her beloved Ottine neighbors.  The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday evening and the funeral home.  Memorials may be made to The Presbyterian Church or the charity of one’s choice.  Services are under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home.