Eugenia Rayner

Krause

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IN LOVING MEMORY

Eugenia Rayner Krause

Mar 26 1927 - Dec 04 2016

Eugenia Rayner Pierce Krause passed away in Plano, Texas, on December 4, 2016, at the age of 89. 

Eugenia (lovingly known as Gena) was born March 26, 1927, in Dallas, Texas. She was a graduate of Highland Park High School and SMU, where she was selected to Mortar Board and she received the M Award.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Graham L. Pierce, Sr. and Elizabeth Weaver Pierce, her brother Graham L. Pierce, Jr. and great-grandson Luke Altobelli.

Gena and Bob raised their children in San Antonio, Texas and returned to the Dallas area in 1992 after 32 years in Central Texas.

Gena was a longtime lover of books and reading, and earned a master’s degree in library science at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. Gena loved her work as a librarian at the DRT Alamo Library in San Antonio. She also owned Krause Books in New Braunfels, Texas. In later years, she used her skills and research background to map out an extensive genealogy of her husband’s family. She was very proud of documenting her children as seventh-generation Texans, and establishing a family link to early German settlers in the Republic of Texas.

Gena was greatly loved by her family. We will miss her bright smile, her abiding interest in the lives of all her family, and the joy and cheer that her warm presence brought to us all.

She is survived by Robert Bernard Krause, her husband of 66 years, and by her five children Catherine Spencer (John), Christopher Krause (Lynn Morstead), Elisabeth Goodwin (Michael), Peter Krause (Rosemary), and Rayner Krause (Kathleen).  Her eleven grandchildren are Molly Altobelli (Dave), Edward Spencer, Trish Goodwin, Anne Coy (Matt), Kate Reese (Aaron), John Krause, Joey Krause, Chris Krause, Jennifer Krause, Daniel Krause, and Heidi Krause. Her four great-grandchildren, Jude Altobelli, James Reese, Daniel Reese, and Adilynn Krause, and her brother J. Rush Pierce and sister Patricia Ellington also survive her.

A memorial service will be held privately.

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