Mary Lynch Fuller Hintzel

On February 8, 2011, Mary Lynch Fuller Hintzel, in the arms of her lord and Savior Jesus Christ, went to our true Home in Heaven. Her family at her bedside, she departed from the Care Center of Brenham, where she had surrounded for two months by a loving Christian staff and more recently as well by her staff from Brazos Valley Hospice. Mary began her twenty -four-year earthly pilgrimage on June 23, 1986, at the Bellville General Hospital, born to William Lynch and Katherine Joy Parker Fuller and welcomed by her brother Martin Hawling Fuller. She was baptized in St. Mary's Episcopal Church by Reverend Thomas A. Wallace and was later confirmed there by Retired Reverend Claude Payne, Bishop of Texas. She received her public education in Bellville ISD, and before she developed hydrocephalus which caused her to begin losing her eyesight and required over twenty brain surgeries, she completed a year of study at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She then took courses at Blinn until surgeries interrupted her plans, but she was nevertheless able to complete several additional courses there in spite of her increasing disability. Mary had numerous awards for her love of and accomplishments in Latin and music, piano beingher specialty. She loved amimals, especially cats and ducks. Mary married Travis Michael Hintzel at St. John Lutheran Church. To this union was born one who was and is the joy of her too short life, Perry Lynch Hintzel, a blessing through that marriage to both sides of his large family. She was also a founding and faithful member of St. Barnabas's Angelican Church (Reformed Episcopal/Angelican Church in North America). Only her recentest extended stay at St. Joseph's Hospital in Bryan, from which she moved in late November to the Care Center, kept her from reugular weekly worship, where at the junior high cafeteria her presence encouraged her parish family, still on their pilgrimage. However, she was keenly aware, as is her family, of the great breadth of her much larger Christian family, which extends into the many churches in Bellville, Austin County and beyond, who have supported her and her family in prayer and service. Mary is survived by her son Perry, her parents Bill and Kathy Fuller, her brother and sister-in-law Meghan McArdle Fuller, Travis and the Hintzel and Thomas families, her grandparents Katherine Joy Schwecke Parker and Col. Robert T. and Ruth Lynch Fuller Townsend, her uncles and aunts Robert and Sharon Reed Parker, george and Kathleen Fuller Jones, Val and Libby Fuller Kiecke, and Dr. Robert and Beth Fuller Stark, many cousins and a host of friends. Funeral services were conducted by Reverend Stephen Stults, Vicar of St. Barnabas's Church, who was assisted by Reverend William Heard, also of St. Barnabas's, and Father Timothy Bucek, of Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, who graciously opened their heats and building for this service of worship.