Obit of Celestine Goertz Matocha - Bastrop County, Texas m320 Submitted by: Tammy 4 Feb 2002 ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. ==================================================================== The Bastrop Advertiser, 6/16/2001: Celestine Goertz Matocha stabbed June 13. Suspect is grandson Barnard Grady Eastland. Obit: Celestine Goertz Matocha, 78, died Wednesday, June 13, 2001 at her home near Smithville. She was born 9/2/1922 in Rockne to Herman Paul Goertz and Mary Hoffman Goertz. She and her husband Raymond moved to Smithville where they raised 9 children. She is preceded in death by her husband, Raymond' a son, Donald and a son, Bernard. Survivors include her children, Loretta Eiben of San Marcos, Linda and husband Danny Masur of Rockdale, Michael and wife Dena Matocha of Red Rock, Kenneth Matocha of Pflugerville, Ann and husband, Jack Hancock of Smithville, Lucille and husband, Stanley Bartsch of Smithville and Mary Jo Matocha of Denver, Co; brothers, Anton Goertz and wife Jane of Red Rock and Denis Goertz and wife Janelle of St. Hedwig; sisters, Geneva Klaus of Red Rock, La Verne Till and husband Albert of String Prairie and Mary Ann Till and husband Alfred of San Marcos; 27 grandchildren a nd 12 great grandchildren. Visitation is 8 am on Saturday, June 16 at Marrs-Jones Funeral Home in Smithville. A rosary will be said at 7pm Sunday, June 17 at Smithville Recreation Cemter, and a Mass will be celebrated at 2pm Monday, June 18 at St. Paul's Catholic Church. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery, Smithville. Pallbearers will be Dale Eiben, Blaine Eiben, Wayne Masur, Gary Matocha, Brian Matocha, Patrick Bartsch, James Eastland and Donald Hancock.