Christine Schiller-Hickerson

Christine Schiller-Hickerson, 92, passed on to her heavenly home peacefully on Thursday April 2, 2015 at a local nursing home.
Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday in Cook-Gerngross-Green-Patterson Funeral Home in Rosebud. Minister Tom Keener officiating. Burial will follow in Barclay Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Christine was born in Bell County to Ed and Ella Newman Lueck. She married Nelson Schiller in 1939. Together they had six children. They farmed in the Ratibor area for many years before moving to Rosebud. Christine nursed in the Marlin Hospital as well as Kings Daughters Hospital in Temple. She retired from nursing to take care of Nelson after he became ill.
Christine attended school at Lost Prairie and nursing school at Torbett-Hutchings-Smith Hospital in Marlin. She was a member of the Church of Christ in Rosebud, active in Rosebud Senior Center and helped with Meals on Wheels in Rosebud before moving to Garden Estate Retirement Center five years ago.
Christine was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters, Tresie Thornton, Edna Kasner, two brothers, Alvin and Andrew Lueck, her first husband, Nelson Schiller Sr. and second husband Joe Hickerson.
She is survived by three sons, Richard Glenn Schiller and wife Marlene of Temple, Nelson Schiller Jr. and wife Becky of Mineral Wells, and Jimmy Schiller and wife Kris of Gulf Shore, AL. Three daughters, Regina Lundy and husband Lee of Temple, Ann Nita Wuebker and husband Buck of Chilton, and Belinda Williams and husband Roger of College Station. One sister, Doris Koonsen of Temple, and one brother, Aaron Lueck of Flagstaff, Arizona. 21 Grandchildren, 41 Great Grandchildren, and 4 great great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. She is also survived by one step son, Lloyd Hickerson and wife Clara, and one step daughter, JoAnn Dodson and husband Jim.
Memorials may be made to Rosebud Senior Center or Rosebud Church of Christ.