DIEGEL
Jerry Lamar (Bud) Diegel, Sr., 76, of 3109 Huisache, died Wednesday in a local hospital after a short illness.
He was a retired electrician and a member of I.B.E.W. Local 278. He worked for the city of Corpus Christi in the Traffic Engineering Department for 27 years. He was a member of the Legion of Mary and the Corpus Christi Cathedral Parish.
Survivors include his wife, Cecelia M. Diegel; four daughters, Mrs. Theresa Joan Havelka, Mrs. Victor C. (Jean) Huff, Mrs. J.L. (Patricia) Landreth, and Mrs. Armando (Priscilla) Martinez, all of Corpus Christi; three sisters, Catherine Wallace of Athens, Texas, Mary Ida Kernodle of Dallas, and Nonie Gillespie of Garland; two brothers, D.J. Diegel of Ingleside and M.A. Diegel of Dallas; 41 grandchildren; and 30 great-grandchildren.
A Rosary will be recited at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Maxwell P. Dunne Chapel. Con-celebrated Funeral Mall at 10 a.m. Friday in the Corpus Christi Cathedral with Rev. Msgr. Richard Shirley, pastor, and Rev. James Tamayo, as celebrants. His grandsons, Gerard Havelka and Kevin Martinez, will serve as altar boys. Interment will follow in Rose Hill Memorial Park.
His grandsons serving as pallbearers will be Victor C. Huff, Jr., Victor Havelka, Jerry Lamary Diegel III, L. Danny Diegel Jr., Jim L. Landreth Jr., and Stephen L. Huff.
His other grandsons will serve as honorary pallbearers.
Maxwell P. Dunne Funera Service, Morgan at Tenth.
DIEGEL
Jerry Lamar (Bud) Diegel, Sr., 76, of 3109 Huisache, died Wednesday in a local hospital after a short illness.
He was a retired electrician and a member of I.B.E.W. Local 278. He worked for the city of Corpus Christi in the Traffic Engineering Department for 27 years. He was a member of the Legion of Mary and the Corpus Christi Cathedral Parish.
Survivors include his wife, Cecelia M. Diegel; four daughters, Mrs. Theresa Joan Havelka, Mrs. Victor C. (Jean) Huff, Mrs. J.L. (Patricia) Landreth, and Mrs. Armando (Priscilla) Martinez, all of Corpus Christi; three sisters, Catherine Wallace of Athens, Texas, Mary Ida Kernodle of Dallas, and Nonie Gillespie of Garland; two brothers, D.J. Diegel of Ingleside and M.A. Diegel of Dallas; 41 grandchildren; and 30 great-grandchildren.
A Rosary will be recited at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Maxwell P. Dunne Chapel. Con-celebrated Funeral Mall at 10 a.m. Friday in the Corpus Christi Cathedral with Rev. Msgr. Richard Shirley, pastor, and Rev. James Tamayo, as celebrants. His grandsons, Gerard Havelka and Kevin Martinez, will serve as altar boys. Interment will follow in Rose Hill Memorial Park.
His grandsons serving as pallbearers will be Victor C. Huff, Jr., Victor Havelka, Jerry Lamary Diegel III, L. Danny Diegel Jr., Jim L. Landreth Jr., and Stephen L. Huff.
His other grandsons will serve as honorary pallbearers.
Maxwell P. Dunne Funera Service, Morgan at Tenth.
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