Edward " Butch" Lindemann I

Edward Leon “Butch” Lindemann I answered God’s call to “come on home, my good and faithful servant” on Monday, August 15, 2011 at Scott and White Hospital in Temple. Butch, the oldest of seven children born to Edward and Tillie Tallas Lindemann, blessed their family on October 5, 1942. He was such an answer to Edward and Tillie’s prayers for a child! Born in Austin Texas, Butch lived in Elgin with the expanding family before they settled in Bartlett in 1951 when Edward opened Lindemann's Welding Shop. Educated in the Bartlett Independent School District that he would faithfully serve until the time of his death, Butch graduated with the class of 1961. He completed his formal education with a business degree from Southwest Texas State, San Marcos in 1966. Butch worked for several years with Gugenheim Company in Austin where he met his future wife, Geneva Lee Barnett. In 1971 Butch, Geneva, and new son, Edward Leon II “Lee” moved to Bartlett where he resided with Geneva until Monday.

Butch loved his Lord, his family, the Bartlett Bulldogs, the Chicago Cubs, and this year, the Texas Rangers Baseball team, most sports and his visits at Will-O-Bell Nursing Home. If you knew Butch, you knew he LOVED to talk. He loved people and he loved being around people. I’m sure you’re heard him say and probably more than once “If you don’t know Butch, you don’t know anyone!” Butch was just not anyone. Even though Butch would live his life with cerebral palsy and epilepsy, he had a most positive attitude. Doctors told Edward and Tillie that Butch wouldn’t live past his teen years! Butch was special in the way he would always try to lighten up your world. Butch had many duties in life and Big Brother was his best duty! He taught us many valuable life lessons. His “sanitary engineering duties” with his many keys earned him the nickname of Bo “Jangles.

Butch was preceded in death by his parents, Edward and Tillie Lindemann and his sister, Patty. Butch will be sorely missed by his wife of 40 years, Geneva; his son, Ed “Lee” Lindemann, and wife, Angie Fuentes Lindemann; grandson, Christian Alexander Fuentes Lindemann; sister, Linda and husband, Bob Schaefer of Tomball; brother, David and wife, Sharon Lindemann of Austin; sister, Janice and husband, D. A. Swope of Pflugerville; sister, Nancy and husband, Glenn Moon of Euless; and brother, Robert and wife, Nancy Lindemann of Thorndale. He is also survived by 11 nephews and nieces; 14 great-nephews and nieces and scores of friends that will miss him dearly.

Though Butch’s light of encouragement has been extinguished; may the spark of that encouragement continue to flame in us until we see him again.

Pallbearers are friends from the Bartlett Independent School District. Honorary pallbearers are Butch’s brothers and brothers-in-laws.

Memorial contributions may be made to Will-O-Bell Nursing Home

Arrangements under the direction of Goodnight Funeral Home, Bartlett, TX.