Elsie Bachmayer

Elsie Agusta Beyer Bachmayer passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 23, 2017 with her family at her side. She was born March 6, 1926 in the Beyersville area and attended Mager School, a one room rural school near their farm. She graduated from Coupland High School in 1943. On February 4, 1947, she married Erwin Bachmayer and they had two children, son Carrol and daughter Joan.

She was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Taylor, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas since 1956, St. Anne’s Altar Society (President for 3 terms) and the American Legion Auxiliary. She was active in the Austin Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, past President of the Central Deanery and Past Rural Life Chapter of the Providence of San Antonio. She lived at Beyersville all her life, enjoying her family and many friends. She enjoyed sewing quilts, cooking and baking coffeecakes and cinnamon rolls.

During her later years, she wrote many stories about her life so that her family could remember and appreciate her life story and the history of her family and community. She was very proud when these stories were published last year in a book “My Story”.

Elsie is survived by her son Carrol Bachmayer and wife Carol of Taylor, daughter Joan Maxfield of Beyersville, grandchildren Ricky Bachmayer and wife Lavon, Crystal Wilhite and husband Zack, Michael Hoffman and Carla Hoffman, great-granddaughter Riley Ann Wilhite, step-grandchildren Debbie Kovar and husband Pat, Mike McCully, and T. J. McCully and wife Jennifer, step-great grandchildren, nieces, nephews and friends.

She is preceded in death by her husband Erwin, parents Rudolph and Agusta (Mager) Beyer, brother Hugo Beyer and wife Lydia, sister Lucile and husband Lonnie B. Harwell, sister-in-law Joyce Bachmayer Bartz and brother-in-law Ralph Bachmayer and wife Mary Lou.

Visitation will be 5:00-7:00 P.M., Sunday, February 26, 2017, with rosary recited at 6:00 P.M. Celebration of Life Mass will be 10:00 A.M., Monday, February 27, 2017 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Burial will follow at St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to Clerical Endowment Fund or a charity of your choice.