Lois Catherine Warrenburg

Lois Catherine Warrenburg, 97, died Thursday, July 8, 2010, in Clarendon.
Services Will be held at a later date in Paris, Texas.Inurnment will be held at a later date at Evergreen Cemetery in Paris, Texas where she will join Harold, Sr. and his family members.

Cremation and arrangements were under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Lois Catherine Williams was born in Dalhart, Texas on November 18, 1912, the second of four children by John Henry Williams and Ethel Denman Williams.  She graduated from Dalhart High School and was employed by the Dalhart Texan news.  In 1933, she married Dr. Harold Earl Grupe from Paris, Texas, a recent graduate of Baylor College of Dentistry, and during the ensuing years raised two children and began a lifelong pursuit in art.  She studied oil painting for several years in Germany, where her husband served as periodontal consultant to the US Army, Europe (USAREUR) from 1955-59, and continued her studies at the Portland Museum School of Art when they returned to the states and Dr. Grupe became chairman of aerodonetics at the University of Oregon.  In 1967 he was killed in a boating accident in Sitka, Alaska, where he had gone to present a clinic to some of his former students serving duty there.  In 1989 Lois married Alton “Rusty”

Warrenburg who had been a friend from high school days, and they lived in Houston, Texas until she moved to Clarendon in the late 90’s, when Rusty passed on.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her sister, Irma Ballenger of Hereford; and a brother, Thomas Jack Williams of Fort Myers who was a decorated Air Force pilot in WWII.

Survivors include a son, Dr. Harold Grupe, Jr. of Birmingham, Alabama; a daughter, Carole Steber of Aachen, Germany; a sister, Nell Barnhill of Amarillo; and also leaves behind eight loving grandchildren, Susanne, Markus, Marlen, Harald, Gisela, and Melanie, Lisa, and Lois Elaine. 

The family requests that memorials be to a favorite charity.