On Monday, January 27, 2020, Eureta Kathryn Schmidt, loving wife and mother of three children passed away at the age of 88. Kathryn was born on November 3, 1931 in Carbon, TX to Thomas Edgar and Cleo Davis. On June 17, 1950, she married the love of her life, Richard William Schmidt. They raised one son, Shane, and two daughters, Glynda Beth and Jennifer Dian. They resided in the South Austin and Oak Hill area until they moved to Dripping Springs in 1984. Kathryn moved to Cameron, TX after Richard passed away in 2012.
While attending Stephen F. Austin High School in Austin, Texas, she worked for Renfro Drugstore where she learned many life lessons that shaped her. After graduation, she worked as an operator for Southwestern Bell while Richard was serving in Korea. While her children were growing up, she worked some for the Internal Revenue Service but the most precious job to her was her labor of love to care for her children and grandchildren while she entertained their friends in her home and church.
Kathryn had an intense passion for the church and prayer and spent much time lifting the needs of those she came in contact with to her heavenly father. If she said she was going to pray for someone, she did. She loved to tell others about her Lord and Savior and faithfully shared Him with others. She had a true servant’s heart and spent most of her adult life as church hostess. Besides serving the church, her devotion and her generous sacrificial giving to her husband, children, and grandchildren were paramount. She was known for her wonderful cooking, her love for conversation, and her strong opinions.
Kathryn was preceded in death by her husband Richard, her parents Thomas and Cleo Davis, her sister Melba Baker and her grandson Aaron Betros. She is survived by her brother, Kent Davis of Cisco, TX, her son Shane and his wife, Sherrel, her daughter Glynda Betros and her husband Matthew, her daughter Jennifer Walker and fiancé Randy Ford and his daughter Lilyanna, five grandchildren, Jaime Dydalewicz and her husband Greg, Cody Schmidt and his wife Nicole, Candace Fernandez and her husband Rudy, Garrett and Dillon Betros, four great grandchildren, Taylor Bohrmann, Haylee Bean, Colton and Cohen Schmidt, three great-great grandchildren, Dax Bean, Beau Bohrmann and Everly Bean, special cousin Leah Cochran and her husband Jarrett and children Jacob and Gideon.