Eugene Buck Dumas

EUGENE BUCK DUMAS, 85, passed away Wednesday, May 23, 2018. He was born in San Antonio, Texas at the Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital on February 11, 1933. As well as a fifth generation Texan, Gene was a descendent of Irish ancestors and German settlers of Wetmore, Texas, now incorporated into the northside city of San Antonio, Texas.

Gene’s great grandfather, Georg Heinrich Buchsenschutz, a Mexican-American War veteran, came to Texas in the late 1800s and bought more than 200 acres of farmland in the Wetmore community in 1860. That same year he wed Friederike Christiana Schulmeier from a neighboring family, with whom he had ten children. Georg and his wife are buried in the historic Texas family cemetery, Atlas number 5507013797, established in 1881 and located on the original homestead. Other family members interred in the historic Wetmore family cemetery included Gene’s grandparents, Alvina Valentina Buchsenschutz and her husband, Robert Patrick Murphy, a patriotic Irish American. They had six children of which their third child, Rose Elizabeth Murphy, was Gene’s mother.

Gene was preceded in death by his mother in 1986, Rose Elizabeth Murphy Dumas Wallace, and by his brother in 2002, Tommy Wallace Jr., both of San Antonio, Texas. He is survived by his maternal first cousin and next of kin, Tommy Lee Reagan Burch of San Antonio, Texas; she fondly remembers teaching Gene his letters and numbers as children together. A maternal first cousin once removed, Colette Reagan Burch Bible, also survives him.

IRISH BLESSING:

May the road rise up to meet you.

May the wind be always at your back.

May the sun shine warm upon your face;

The rains fall soft upon your fields

And until we meet again,

May God ever hold you

In the palm of His hand.

May the stars come out to greet you,

As you lie your head to rest.

May the moonlight smile upon you;

And your dreams be ever blessed.

May God ever hold you

In the palm of His hand.

REST IN PEACE

Direct cremation arranged with Funeral Caring USA Funeral Home and Crematory, 6902 NE Loop 410, San Antonio, Texas. Direct burial of inurned remains to follow in Section 2 “Sunny Slopes”, Lot 68, Space 6 at Sunset Memorial Park, 1701 Austin Highway, San Antonio, Texas, next to his mother’s and brother’s gravesites, on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 3 p.m.