Mrs. Elvira Buntyn

Yoakum - Mrs. Elvira Buntyn of Yoakum died at 6 P.M. Friday, February 2, 1973 in Stevens Nursing Home, Yoakum, at the age of 85 years, 8 months and 15 days.

Funeral services were held Sunday, February 4 at 2 P.M. at St. Ann's Catholic Church at Hochheim with the Rev. Michael O'Shaughnessy officiating.

Burial followed in St. Ann's Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Gerhardt Gerdes, Leslie Kaiser, James Crawford, Henry Crawford, Jr., H. Thomas and

Joe Buntyn.

Mrs. Buntyn, nee Elvira Poth, was born in Lavaca County, May 17, 1887, the daughter of Jacob and Anna (Laake) Poth.

Surviving are one son, L.P. Buntyn; two daughters, Mrs. Rita Golden of Corpus Christi, Mrs. H.E. Crawford of Yoakum; one brother, Louis Poth of Yoakum; ten grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by five brothers, Richard J. Poth, November 5, 1959; E.B. Poth Sr., January 21, 1962; Charles J., A.H. and Ewald Poth.

Shiner Gazette - Shiner, Texas, Thursday, February 15, 1973

NOTE: Obituary has errors.

Burial was in the Poth Cemetery, adjacent to St. Ann's Church and St. Ann's Cemetery.

Pallbearers included Gerhardt Gerdes, Leslie Kaiser, James Crawford, Henry Edward Crawford Jr., Thomas J. Buntyn and Joseph S. Buntyn.

Elvira Poth Buntyn was born in Old Moulton and lived there till her family moved to DeWitt County in 1890.

Survivors include son Louis P. Buntyn (Jake of San Antonio), daughters Mrs. Rita Golden (Corpus Christi) and Mrs. Annaline Crawford (Hochheim); one younger brother, Louis Poth (Hochheim Prairie) and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by parents, husband Whitman H. Buntyn and 12 siblings: Jacob Jr. (1891), William (1941), Edward (1941), Anna (1941), Norman (1951), Arnold (1955), Clara (1955), Arthur (1956), Richard (1959), Edmund "EB" (1962), Ewald (1964) and Charles (1964).

(Submitted By: Rebecca Golden Herder, Granddaughter)