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Alma Jo Hoelscher Harris
16 Jan 1915 – 29 Jun 2011
| Birth | 16 Jan 1915 |
| Death | 29 Jun 2011 |
| Cemetery | Oakwood Cemetery Waco , McLennan County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Andrea Berger Walston on 12 May 2025 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72326688 |
Bio
Alma Jo Miller Harris, 96, of Waco, died peacefully Wednesday, June 29, 2011. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Saturday, July 2, at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Chapel with the Monsignor Mark Deering officiating. Burial will follow at Oakwood Cemetery. Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 1, at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Chapel. Alma was born in Westphalia, Texas, to the late August F. and Rosa Hoelscher. She married Eddie H. Miller of Riesel in 1935, where they made their home, later moving to Corpus Christi and eventually to Waco in 1945. In 1984 she married J.D. Harris. Known as "Bebe" to her family, she was a dynamic domino player and was impossible to beat by young and old, even into her last month of life. She was a strong willed person who managed her life in an impeccable manner. Alma also had her own way of managing her health to its finest detail, even with her numerous health conditions, starting with a heart attack when she was 41. She was a devout Catholic and a member of St. Louis Catholic Church and St. Veronica's Altar Guild. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Eddie Miller and J.D. Harris; sisters, Lena Glatter, Hilda Berger, Elsie Fuchs and Dora Moeller; and brothers, Robert Hoelscher, Otto "Sonny" Hoelscher and Leander "Dickie" Hoelscher. Bebe is survived by her daughter, Shirley Miller Crockett; granddaughters, Chrisanne Kahler and husband, Kent, and Megan Goebel and husband, John; great-grandsons, Kris, Korey and Kollin Kaher, and Jeremy and Grant Goebel; great-granddaughter, Courtney Miller Percivill; sister, Mary Cypert; as well as many nieces and nephews. Waco Tribune-Herald: 7/1/2011...P7
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- Magdalena Josephine "Lena" Hoelscher Glatter 1906–2000
- Hildegard Clara "Hilda" Hoelscher Berger 1907–1997
- Elsie Mae Hoelscher Fuchs 1910–1998
- Dora Elizabeth Hoelscher Moeller 1912–2010
- Robert John Hoelscher 1918–1988
- Mary Hoelscher Cypert 1920–2012
- Otto Frank Hoelscher 1922–1992
- PFC Leander D. Hoelscher 1925–1945
- PFC Leander "Dick" Hoelscher 1925–1945
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