Louis Peter Matjeka

Louis Peter Matjeka, 97, born February 16, 1916, on a farm in Bastrop County, Texas passed away on June 5, 2013. Louis was a resident of San Antonio for over ninety one years after having moved to the city at the age of three. He attended St. Gerard’s High School, and worked most of his life in the food service business, retiring from the H. J. Heinz Company. Although he grew up Catholic, he became a member of Beacon Hill Presbyterian Church in 1947. He continued there as a member, serving as both a deacon and an elder, until joining First Presbyterian Church in Kerrville in 2011. Louis was an avid golfer who took up the game at age 51, and he played it regularly throughout the remainder of his life. For the past two and half years he lived in Kerrville, but for the first year and half of that time, up until the age of 95-1/2 , he drove back to San Antonio twice a week to play golf with his many friends. He always had a positive attitude about everything and everyone, with Christ and his church being a central core of his life.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Herman and Mary Meuth Matjeka, and his wife of over 70 years, Louise Farrar Matjeka. Louis was an only child whose parents were from two large farm families in Bastrop County which had multiple marriages of brothers and sisters of the two families. He was always very proud, and felt particularly close to the large number of relatives and in particular to all the “double cousins” in his life. They were all a very hardy group with most living well into their late nineties, and some even topping the century mark. He was also very close to his late wife’s family, which included a multitude of nephews and nieces, including John A. Lee, Jr., to whom he was particularly close and functioned as a surrogate father to from the age of ten after the passing of John’s own father.

Louis is survived by his sons Robert T. Matjeka and wife Elizabeth of Kerrville, Texas, and Gary H. Matjeka and wife Diane of Houston, Texas, natural grandchildren James R. Matjeka and wife Melonie of Johnson City, Texas, Suzanne Bell and husband Mitch of Fredericksburg, Texas, Jane Marks and husband Andrew of Alexandria, Virginia and step grandchildren Patrick Strange and wife Amy of The Woodlands, Texas, Kimberly D’Ambroso and husband Robert of Katy, Texas, Jaska Cather of Winchester, Virginia, April Matjeka of Whitesboro, New York, Tony Matjeka and wife Michaela of Rockwall, Texas, sixteen great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild.

Visitation will be at Sunset North Funeral Home on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 from 6PM – 8PM. Services will be at Sunset North Funeral Home Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 10:30AM. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Park.

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