Mamie Louise Minear Gee

Mamie Louise Minear Gee, 100, of Yoakum, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016. Mamie was born June 18, 1916 in Gonzales to George Minear and Martha King Minear. She married Albert Gee on Dec. 31, 1945 in Gonzales.

Mamie was born and raised in Gonzales. She graduated from the Gonzales school system. Mamie’s father passed away when she was a young teenager and she helped her mother bear the weight of the depression by working to help support the family.

She worked at Duke and Ayres Five and Dime store in Gonzales. She met a railroad engineer for the Harwood to Gonzales line by the name of Albert Gee and married him. She lovingly accepted the responsibility to raise his 10-year old daughter and soon after they moved to Yoakum.

Their daughter Ethel came 20 years later and Mamie worked from home raising their children, sewing, gardening, baking, canning and faithfully preparing meals. She was a very hardworking woman and shouldered her share of the work at the ranch they later purchased together.

Mamie loved her grandchildren; she shared her love of dancing with them as she taught them how to dance. She encouraged them to work hard in school and advance their education.

Volumes could be written on the hardships she endured in her lifetime while living through the depression, World War II and the wars that followed, and more pleasantly the advances in technology she witnessed first-hand in her 100 years.

She lived a life that witnessed the simpler times of horse and buggy to placing a man on the moon and shared telephone lines to high tech internet information and communication systems. Still Mamie enjoyed the simpler things, sewing, gardening, cooking meals for her family and dancing with her grandson.

Mamie M. Gee is survived by her daughters and a son-law, Ethel and Charles Rochester of Gonzales, Barbara Riemenschneider of San Antonio; grandchildren, Kyle Riemenschneider, Robert Bland and Charlie Rochester; and 10 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; grandson, Robert Riemenschneider; and her brothers, Virgil, Wilbur, Ralph and Nixon Minear.

A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 25 in the Gonzales City Cemetery on College St. with Rev. Paul Smith officiating. The family will receive friends from 10 - 10:45 a.m. Thursday in Seydler-Hill Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to the charity of one’s choice. Services are under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home.