Willie Gumbert

INGRAM Willie Gumbert, 92, of Ingram, Texas passed from this life on September 6, 2014 at his home surrounded by his family and loved ones. Willie was born on May 17, 1922 to Herman Henry Gumbert and Katie Velma Maples Gumbert in Travis County, Texas.

Willie was a strong, honorable, and legendary man. He started earning his living before the age of eight in his family business. After a few short years of cutting cedar he met the love of his life. In 19 a seventeen year old Willie Gumbert was headed down the trail to fetch some water when a fourteen year old girl named Minnie Lee McGehee spotted him. She was carrying a bucket of water of course he offered to help her. On April 5, 1941after a two year romance Willie and Minnie Lee snuck out of the camp and went to a Justice of the Peace to be married. They remained married for seventytwo glorious years. Willie ran his own cedar business, working everyday for sixtyfour years to provide for his loving wife and family. God blessed Willie and Minnie Lee with much wealth. They had eleven children, fortytwo grandchildren, ninetyeight great grandchildren, sixtyseven greatgreat grandchildren and two greatgreatgreat grandchildren. Now that Willie and Minnie Lee are gone so many will have fond memories of them. Many children spent time playing in their yard climbing on the piles of cedar post and on the cedar trucks and swimming in the Guadalupe River just a few yards from their back door. Of course we cannot forget the countless games of fortytwo played on Willies back porch. Willie was a man of God, family and fishing. Willie and Minnie Lees greatest legacy is not their family or their home in Ingram, Texas. Their legacy is their love for Jesus Christ it is a love that has stood the test of time. Two lives well lived, always putting their trust in God while teaching hundreds of descendants how to handle any situation. Simply give it to God. What a perfect legacy

Willie is preceded in death by his wife, Minnie Lee McGehee Gumbert his parents, Herman Henry Gumbert and Katie Velma Maples Gumbert three sisters daughter, Lisa Lynn Gumbert Hooker soninlaw, David Hooker grandson, Aaron Gumbert great grandson, Jaler Todd Brown step greatgreat grandson, Chris Pritehett.


Those left to cherish and honor his memory are his children, Wanda Brown and husband Bud, Esther Moose and husband Gene, Earl Gumbert and wife Nita, Robert Gumbert and wife Deanna, Kay Dragoo and husband Duane, Thelma Kimbrough and husband Robert, Carol McCloud and husband Tony, Michael Gumbert and wife Thelma Jo, Frances Foster and husband Casey, Virginia Green and husband Mark sister, Helen Gumbert Taylor also surviving him are fortytwo grandchildren, ninetyeight great grandchildren, sixtyseven greatgreat grandchildren, two greatgreatgreat grandchildren, along with a host of many loving friends and neighbors.

A time of visitation with the family will be held from 58PM, Monday, September 8, 2014 and on Tuesday, September 9, 2014 from 12PM at the Kerrville Funeral Home.

Funeral services will be held at 2PM on September 9, 2014 in the main chapel of the Kerrville Funeral Home with interment to follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Kerrville, Texas.

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