Mary Louise Lloyd Schmidt

Mary Louise Lloyd Schmidt, age 97, of Lockhart, formerly of Austin, died April 26 at the Chisolm Trail Nursing Home, Lockhart. She was born May 11, 1911, in Austin, Texas, the daughter of Walter Charles and Louise Magdalene Lucksinger Lloyd. She was a life long member of St. Martin's Lutheran Church, where she was baptized, confirmed, married, worshipped, studied and served in many circles and classes over a period of 80 years. She graduated from Austin High School, and worked in the stenographic bureau of the University of Texas, then worked from home typing thesis and book manuscripts for graduate students and professors. She worked as secretary to J. Frank Dobie, John Silber and other well known university professors. Later, she was the secretary for George Ramsey of the Balfour Jewelry Company, and the secretary of the Lutheran Campus Ministry at the University, where she helped many students who came through her office. In all of these years in her church, her family, and her work, the care for and interest in the people with whom she came into contact left a legacy of service. She married Fred Otto Schmidt on August 29, 1937, and the young couple lived in an apartment off Bull Creek Road until they moved into their new house on Pearl Harbor Day, December 7, 1941. Mary Louise continued to live in that house until she moved to Lockhart in November of 1997. Her survivors include her son Charles Lloyd Schmidt and his wife Virginia and their two sons Stephen and William of Fort Worth, and her daughter Mary Lou and her husband Wayne Walther of Lockhart, and their two sons, Carl Walther and his wife Katrina of Austin, and Nicholas Walther of Houston. She also leaves her sister Marjorie and her husband George Bradford of Oklahoma City, her brother Donald and his wife Geraldine of Austin, sister-in-law Helen (Mrs. Dan) Lloyd of Bastrop, and sister-in-law, Nora Schmidt Pease of Friendswood. Visitation will be Wednesday, April 29, at Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home at 3125 North Lamar, Austin, from 6 to 8 p.m. There will be a prayer service at 7 p.m. led by Pastor Carl Schoss. Funeral services will be Thursday morning at 10 from St. Martin's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 606 West Fifteenth Street, Austin, with Pastors Craig Sommer and Kent Bohls. Burial will be in Austin Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to St. Martin's general fund or Grace Lutheran in Lockhart.