02/23/1987
Alberta Jennie (Mater) Elliott, 74, of Austin, passed away Monday, February 23, 1987, after a long Illness.
Services were held at Cook-Walden Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Paul Spellman officiating.
Mrs. Elliott was born March 2, 1912, in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the daughter of Dr. R.V. Mater.
She was a resident of Austin since 1958, and was retired coordinator of Volunteers for the Austin
State School for the Mentally Retarded for 17 1/2 years.
Survivors include two daughters, Kathy Elliott and Vancene F. Tuggle both of Austin; and two grandsons,
Shaun Tuggle and Kevin Tuggle, all of Austin. She is also survived by Worthey and Louis Boden of Sioux City, Iowa, and Margaret Mater of Knoxville, Iowa.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM, Wednesday in the Colonial Chapel of the
Cook-Walden Funeral Home, with Dr. Paul Spellman of Hyde Park United Methodist Church
officiating. Interment will be in Austin Memorial Park.
Pallbearers will be Shaun Tuggle, Kevin Tuggle, Dauphen Jackson, Mark Shelton, Art
Ambrose and Gerald Neely.
Honorary pallbearers include Luke Sidles, Loyd Sidles, Gordon Parker, Bill Griebel,
Delmar Gross and Bill Colwell.
Expressions of sympathy may be made in memorials to the Texas Special Olympics,
11442 N. 11135 Austin, Texas 78753.
Arrangements by Cook-Walden Funeral Home, Lamar location.