DeAnna Zander

DeAnna Zander, 80, of Riesel, passed away Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, in Waco.  

Funeral services were held on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, at Perry United Methodist Church in Riesel with the Reverend Ron Oden officiating.  Interment followed in Perry United Methodist Cemetery. The family received friends on Wednesday, Sept. 15, at Adams Funeral Home.

Mrs. Zander was born on Jan. 27, 1941, in Elizabeth, La., to Aubrey D. and Margaret (Sehweitzer) Davis. She married Roy Zander on March 14, 1958, in Cameron, and they celebrated over 63 wonderful years together. Mrs. Zander loved to knit, crochet, bake, was an avid reader but her true love was her family; she was all about family and animals.  She even claimed that she taught her husband how to fish.  

Mrs. Zander was preceded in death by her parents; father and mother-in law, Harry and Lorene Zander; son, Roy Gene Zander Jr.; and grandson, Roy Gene Zander III.

Survivors include her husband, Roy Zander Sr.; daughters, Audrey Zander Mudge and her husband, Dickey, and Lisa Zander Becnel and her husband, David; grandchildren, Amy Zander and fiancé Wesley Matlock, Aubrey Zander, Ariel Blanco and husband Aaron, Margaret Mudge, Dylan Becnel and wife Christiana, and Austin Becnel and wife Morgan; great-grandchildren, Aubrey E. Zander, Bailey Zander, Annarose Wilson, Adalynn Gibliant, Isabella Becnel and Ramsey Becnel; brothers, John D. Davis and his wife Pauline, and Lee Baxter Davis and his wife Waynett; sister-in-law, Darlene Reich; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and dear friends.

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