Cook Walden Capital Parks Funeral Home

Apted, 75, Janesville, died Thursday at Mercy Hospital and Trauma Center, Janesville. Private family services will be held. Schneider Funeral Home & Crematory, Janesville, is assisting the family.Carl M. Fairbert, 81, Janesville, died Thursday in Rock Haven Nursing Home, Janesville. Services will be at 11?a.m. Thursday, Aug. 24, at Daley Murphy Wisch & Associates Funeral Home and Crematorium, Beloit. Visitation will be from 10?a.m. until the time of services Thursday at the funeral home.Mary A. Gorr, 97, Lake Geneva, died Wednesday at Geneva Manor, Lake Geneva. Services will be at 6?p.m. Tuesday at First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lake Geneva. Visitation will be from 4?p.m. until the time of services at the church. Steinke-Lazarczyk Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Lake Geneva, is assisting the family.Earl J. Leeder, 90, Austin, Texas, formerly of Janesville, died Saturday in Austin. Services will be at 10?a.m. today in the chapel of Cook-Walden/Capital Parks Funeral Home, Pflugerville, Texas.Rita E. Leyes, 64, Milton, died Tuesday at home. Services will be held at 11?a.m. Monday at Rock Prairie Presbyterian Church, Janesville. Visitation will be from 2-4?p.m. Sunday at Schneider Funeral Home, Janesville, and from 10?a.m. until the time of services Monday at the churchLois I. Murray, 87, Brodhead, died Wednesday at Beloit Memorial Hospital, Beloit. Services will be at 11:30?a.m. Saturday at D.L. Newcomer Funeral Home, Brodhead. Visitation will be from 10?a.m. until the time of services Saturday at the funeral home.Kenneth Wayne Needham, 61, Janesville, died Wednesday at home. A memorial gathering will take place from 5 to 7?p.m. Monday at Hansen-Gravi... (Janesville Gazette)

She was born Feb. 27, 1929 in Austin, the daughter of Joe A. and Lena Cox Bowmer.She was a lifelong member of the Methodist Church. She attended the University of Texas Austin and graduated from the Marlin School of Nursing as a L.V.N. She married Lucian Lee McMurtry Jr. on September 25, 1948 at the Presbyterian Chapel at UT. She worked as a licensed vocational nurse and later joined her husband in the cattle business as the bookkeeper.She enjoyed dominoes, bunco, canasta and the 42 club at the First United Methodist Church in Gonzales.She is survived by her son L. Lee McMurtry III and wife Bonnie of Houston and her granddaughters Molly and Abby McMurtry both of Houston. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and sisters Mary Joe “Polly” Brewer and Virginia McElhaney. Visitation will be from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 21. Funeral services will be 5 p.m. Monday at Seydler-Hill Funeral Home. Interment will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 22, at the Cook-Walden Capital Park Cemetery in Pflugerville. Arrangements under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home, Gonzales. (Gonzales Inquirer)