Delorse Jean Kautz

Delorse Jean Kautz went to live in our Lord’s presence in the early morning of Monday, August 5, 2024 at the age of 86 in the hospital surrounded by loved ones. She was born in Melbeta, Nebraska, on July 16, 1938, the fourth out of seven children born to John George Batt and Elizabeth Eva Batt (Fertig). She was a beloved daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. She was devoted to Jesus!

While an infant, Delores was Baptized on August 21, 1938 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Minatare Nebraska. Then when she was older on June 1, 1952, she professed her faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and vowed obedience to his word, and was received into the full communion with Faith English Lutheran Church in Crook Colorado. Later on in life she and her husband George were members of Trinity Full Gospel of Belton Texas.

Delorse at the age of 14 years old lost her father and she went to high school and had a full-time job as a telephone operator to help her family out financially, she gladly gave her whole check to her family but saved enough out of it for one soda pop. She graduated From Minatare High school in 1956 where she was active in the choir and FHA. When she met George Kautz at a dance, it was love at first sight. She always said that George stood her up at prom but she got even with him... she married him. She was always full of joy and liked to joke around.

Delorse was united in Holy Matrimony with George Kautz at St. James Lutheran Church in Scottsbluff Nebraska on October 27, 1957. She helped her husband on the farm and they had four children, two girls DeeAnna Marie, and Teresa Lynn. Two boys, Gregory, and Bryan Lee. She eventually worked another job, raised her kids and helped on the farm and never missed attending any of her children’s school functions They moved to Lodi California and May 24, 1996 at the age of 58, she received her degree in Dietetic Service Supervisor from San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California and worked at some hospitals in Lodi, California. They moved to Temple, Texas where she worked in some hospitals and they retired. She has six grandkids (the apple of her eye) Tabatha, Cameron, Connor, Journey, and Jacob, and six great grandkids, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by her parents George and Eva Batt, and siblings Dorothy of Nebraska, Karen of Texas, Wayne of Nebraska, and Ed of Nebraska, and her husband George Kautz of 65 years of Temple Texas but is survived by her sister Donna and husband Jim Wright of Colorado, and her brother Garold Batt and his wife Nancy of Nebraska. She is survived by her children DeeAnna and husband Stan Whitman of Reno Nevada, Gregory Kautz of Temple, Texas, Bryan and his wife Colleen Kautz of Juneau, Alaska, and Teresa and her husband Troy Whitman of Temple, Texas.

John 14: 1-3

Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.