Rosalie Angeline Brunkenhoefer

Funeral Services are under the direction of Buffington Funeral Home in Shiner, Texas and will be held on Saturday, June 9, 2018 with the Rosary beginning at 11:00 am followed by the Funeral Service at Buffington Funeral Home Chapel with Deacon Joe Machacek officiating. Interment will follow at Shiner Catholic Cemetery in Shiner, Texas.

Rosalie was born on June 28, 1921 in Shiner, Texas. She was the daughter of Edmond and Martha (Palitza) Kremling. She married Mitchell Ernest Brunkenhoefer on September 30, 1941 at her parents home in Shiner, Texas. Rosalie planted a vegetable garden each year and canned her crops. She canned pickles, beets and okra. She liked playing bingo and the lottery. She enjoyed making kolaches for her family. She liked to color and do quilting. She worked as a CNA. Rosalie liked going dancing and to the movies.

Rosalie is survived by two sons; Eugene Brunkenhoefer and his wife, Kathy of Santa Fe, Texas, Allen Brunkenhoefer and his wife, Frances of Buchanan Dam, Texas, two daughters; Doris May and her husband, Robert of Dickinson, Texas, Darlene Rodriguez of Belton, Texas, eleven grandchildren, nineteen great-grandchildren, and six great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; Edmond and Martha Kremling, her husband; Mitchell Brunkenhoefer, eight brothers; Edmond Brunkenhoefer, Johnnie Brunkenhoefer, Edward Brunkenhoefer, Buck Brunkenhoefer, Rudolph Brunkenhoefer, Adolph Brunkenhoefer, infant twins, three sisters; Annie Bennett, Josephine Walther, Lillie Coffin, granddaughter; Deborah McLaughin, two step-granddaughters; Kathryn Dorman and Melissa Brooks.

Pallbearers for Mrs. Brunkenhoefer will be; Mitchell Brunkenhoefer, Emmett Brunkenhoefer, Robert May, Jr., Michael May, Charles Thompson IV, and Gary Brunkenhoefer.

To join the family in celebrating Rosalie’s life and to offer words of comfort, please go to: www.buffingtonfuneralhomeshiner.com