Patricia Ann Jurena

Patricia Ann Jurena was born on March 17, 1934 at Santa Rosa hospital in San Antonio, Texas. She grew up on a farm outside of Bandera, Texas helping her mother raise laying hens, cook, wash dishes and other chores and helped her father raise sheep. Raised a Catholic, she attended the parochial grade school. The limestone blocks for this school were quarried from her family’s farm. She would arrive early in the morning at the school in order to build the fire. When the in-town school kids would come in later they would complain about the fire dying down.

Patricia went to Bandera High School and graduated in 1953. She excelled at her studies and was Salutatorian of her high school class. While in her senior year she also worked in the school office which she continued full time after graduation for the superintendent of the Bandera school district. She frequently had to fix the jams or spills in the mimeograph machine when one of the teachers tried to use it. Later, she also worked part time for the county judge. Her parents later retired from the farm and moved into Bandera where my mom took care of them. She also played the pipe organ at St. Stanislaus catholic church.

She married Jerome H. Jurena in October 1963 at the same Catholic Church and they spent their honeymoon in Big Bend national park. With her husband they raised five boys to adulthood in San Antonio.

Her pastimes were gardening and volunteering at St. Luke’s church where she played the organ for 15 years at the 8:00 AM Sunday mass. Later she volunteered with the Altair Society cleaning both the altar coverings and Alter Servers’ vestments where she used her “solar air dryer”! During the late 80’s into the 2000’s she attended bible study classes. Her husband also attended these classes starting in the 90’s after he retired and they would be some of the few willing to pick up the teacher, Sister Bernice Trachta from Our Lady of the Lake University.

She is preceded in death by her parents Christian Jenschke and Emma Theckla Kuntz Jenschke, her siblings Adela Martha Jenschke, Leonard Theodore Jenschke, Peter Jenschke, Paul Jenschke, Erwin John Jenschke, Raymond Hugo Jenschke, Werner Alfred Jenschke, Monica Theckla Jenschke Ashbacher, Robert Paul “Pete” Jenschke, Valeria Freda Jenschke Hubble, Edgar Michael Jenschke, Gilbert Louis Jenschke, her son Wilbur Lawerence Jurena and her husband Jerome Henry Jurena.

She is survived by her sons Dwight Joseph Jurena, Mark Thomas Jurena, Paul Nicholas Jurena (wife Sara Jurena and children Christopher Paul Jurena and Monica Jurena) and Keith Robert Jurena.

Visitation will be December 1 from 6-9 PM at Sunset Northwest funeral home with a rosary at 7:00 PM. Funeral mass will be December 2 at 10:00 AM at St. Luke’s Catholic church. Committal service will be after the funeral at Ft. Sam Houston at 11:30 AM shelter #3.