JOSEPH GRUY JR. Obituary (2022) San Antonio Express-News

Beloved and devoted husband, father, grandfather and uncle, Joseph Gruy, Jr. handed away peacefully in his sleep on June 3, 2022.

Joe was born in Beeville, Texas, on Could 28, 1929, to Lucile and Joseph Gruy, Sr.

He attended colleges in Beeville, Hebbronville, and San Antonio earlier than attending Texas A&M College. He was at A&M for 3 years earlier than transferring to The College of Texas the place he was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. He drastically loved faculty life and was a part of many legendary tales of the day. He was additionally well-known for famously internet hosting the “Wednesday Evening Open Home” to kick off the approaching weekend!

Joe was a life-long rancher on the El Torete ranch outdoors Hebbronville, Texas. He devoted himself to clearing and enhancing ranchland so as to strengthen his cattle manufacturing within the tough south Texas brush nation. He was additionally recognized to host a fairly good looking social gathering too!

He left an enduring impression on everybody he met. Whether or not the tales originated in faculty, on his ranch, or at his dwelling on Lake Travis, he was a humorous, variety gentleman, whose self-deprecating humor and intelligence had been appreciated by all. And even to his closing days, he was at all times impeccably dressed. Pressed khaki pants, starched shirt, and tall, customized Luchesse cowboy boots had been his trademark. His boots had been at all times shined and buffed – typically at a high-quality males’s retailer in Houston, and typically by a boy on a nook in Nuevo Laredo.

Joe was an avid reader and a deep thinker. He spent summers along with his three daughters giving life classes which might later be handed on to his grandchildren. Along with instructing his women the right way to experience a horse, hunt for quail and drive a stick shift, he instilled self-determination, power of character, and braveness. He studied geopolitics and inspired world enterprise and journey lengthy earlier than it was in vogue.

He was a university soccer fan, by no means missed an episode of Johnny Carson and was at all times the lifetime of the social gathering. He saved a pistol by the mattress and suffered no fools. He believed in gold, good wine and high quality in all issues.

He’s survived by his spouse, Denise Miller Gruy, his kids from a earlier marriage; Clayton Erikson and husband Shel, Carolyn Biedenharn and husband Larry, Lisa Brandt and husband Wayne, his 5 grandchildren; Kahler Marlow and husband Kristian, Tucker Biedenharn and spouse Sarah, Emily LaGrone and husband Mark, Allison Biedenharn and Robert Brandt, his brother Viggo Gruy, in addition to quite a few nieces and nephews. He’s predeceased by his sister, Dagmar Cole.

A personal Celebration of Life will likely be held at a future date.

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