Bettie "Jeanine" Teltschik

Bettie Jeanine Teltschik (Jeanine) was born on Christmas day, 1930 to Elsie Mae (Morgan) and Fred Austin Rodgers in Gulf, Texas in Matagorda County. Her parents divorced when she was 4. She, her mother and big brother, Joe, soon went to live near Grandmother Morgan in Higginsville, Missouri. When she was in the 1st grade the family moved back to Texas.

Two years later her mother married George W. Williams (Stout) and they all began a whole new life in the tiny town of Garwood, Texas. Jeanine loved it and made life-long friends there. Upon graduation from Garwood High, Jeanine went to Houston to study at the St. Joseph School of Nursing & Sacred Heart College. After finding the sight of blood or the smell of ether made her faint, she changed her major to music. It was during this time in Houston Jeanine met and fell in love and soon married Frank J. Teltschik. Frank was a well-known and established piano teacher in Houston. Together they enjoyed a life-long career of teaching and owning The Teltschik Music Studios along with Frank’s two brothers, duo concert pianists Herbert and Alfred. Numerous nieces still teach piano and the Teltschik name is still known by many former students throughout Houston and beyond. Frank died in 1993 with Jeanine by his side after a long illness. In 1995, Jeanine moved to New Braunfels, Texas to be near her brother Joe and his wife Ann. She immediately started teaching private piano and serving the music department for the preschool program at her church, New Braunfels Presbyterian, where she accepted and loved working with the little ones. In fact, Jeanine continued to teach until she was 84, at which time she married her high school sweetheart, Max Faykus, who she had known and said she “fell hard for” when she was only 9 years old in Garwood. (What’s the saying: “Good things come to those who wait!?”) Max was a retired Doctor of Radiology living in Victoria. Max and Joe were good friends and had kept in touch which is how Max found Jeanine again in 2014. They were married in July 2015. Max passed away with Jeanine lovingly by his side slightly more than a month before Jeanine also passed to life eternal.

Jeanine outlived her entire immediate family. She had no children of her own but is survived by many loving nieces and nephews whom she treated much as a mother would treat her own children, Max’s three children, one special 1st cousin, Linda Barton, many other cousins and many lovely friends both in Texas and Germany. Jeanine is also survived by her half-brothers Gary and Jerry Rodgers whom she met later in life but loved and welcomed into her life as she did with everyone in her family and circle of friends. Finally, Jeanine loved her pets and all living creatures, even often taking care of injured animals and nursing them back to health.

Services for Jeanine will be Graveside on Saturday, August 3 at 10:00 am at Memorial Oaks Cemetery, 13001 Katy Fwy., Houston, Texas with a reception to follow at 5301 Katy Freeway at noon.

In lieu of flowers, Jeanine asked any Memorials be given to the New Braunfels Presbyterian Church, 373 Howard St, New Braunfels, TX 78130 or to the charity of your choice.