She was a wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, nurse, rancher, and so much more. She was known and loved by many and always took the time to exchange a few words to catch up with someone or share a laugh. She loved to laugh.

She was born April 23, 1933, in Meyersville, Texas to Willie and Isabella Gawlik Warwas. As the fourth of eight siblings, Imelda helped on the farm growing up, and even said one summer, the cotton crop was so good, she just knew she picked a whole bale by herself. She would tell us about growing up on the farm with her siblings and them playing games like kick-the-can, hunting squirrels, their adventures going down their own zip line or riding a mare to school that fell asleep on the way causing them to tumble head-over-heel down the mare’s neck. She made her childhood sound like a lot of fun, even though there was a lot of hard work. Then at the age of 16, she studied and trained to be an LVN at the Burns Hospital in Yoakum, Texas, where she continued to work after her completed training. She enjoyed her time there learning from the Sisters, making new friends and new memories.

Within the next five years she met the love of her life, Henry Alvin Schoenherr, and they were wed on April 16, 1955, at 9 AM at St Michaels, Cuero, Texas. They celebrated the whole day with lunch, dinner, and dancing in between and after. She loved to dance with our father. After starting their married life together in great love and celebration, and living in several South Texas towns, they eventually settled in Goliad. Together they were blessed to have seven healthy children which have grown, so far, into 15 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.

Imelda valued her Catholic Faith and instilled the importance of God and family in her children’s lives.

This showed especially after she lost her husband after twenty-one years, along with the strength it took to provide the love of two parents going forward. She loved her family with all her heart and looked forward to family get-togethers to have “noise” in the house again. Her grandchildren and great-grandchildren brought a great light to her world, she loved seeing them, and they never misbehaved if you asked her. She would joke and tell them they could tell their friends they have a “cotton- picking grandma”, and it would be true because she picked cotton growing up. Her love extended to those children she watched from time to time and her children’s friends - she always tried to make them feel welcomed.

Imelda knew she had been blessed, but I hope she also knew, she was a blessing too. She was more than our mother; she was a shining example of love. Imelda – Mom – Grandma – Great-Grandma, you will be missed more than you know.

Imelda is survived by her daughters, Deborah (Keith) Haney, Goliad; Paula Schoenherr, Portland, and Rebecca Schoenherr, Richmond/ Goliad; her sons Henry (Pat) Schoenherr, Jr, Beeville; Mark (Judy) Schoenherr, San Antonio; Christopher Schoenherr, New Braunfels; and Phillip (Crystal) Schoenherr, Cibolo; grandchildren, Kelly Schoenherr, Stuart (Mindy) Schoenherr, Lauren Schoenherr, Kyle (Elizabeth) Schoenherr, Megan (Caleb) Schoenherr, Elizabeth Schoenherr, Parrish (Tara) Schoenherr, Garrett Haney, Nichole (Blake) Rowan, Victoria (Clay) Eoff, Lacy Schoenherr, Matthew Haney, Avery Schoenherr, Ayden Schoenherr and Andrew Schoenherr; great-grandchildren, Grant, Jason, Palmer, Tatum, Riley and Genevieve; siblings, Helen Lempa, Cuero; Alvin Warwas, Berkley, CA; and Edwin Warwas, Ashville, NC,; and many nieces and nephews.

Imelda was preceded in death by her husband, Henry; parents, Willie and Isabella Warwas; children Mary Ann, Henry Alvin, and Alvin Paul; siblings, Joseph Warwas, Herman Warwas, Irene Murphy, and Annette Warwas.

Funeral services were as followed: Grace Funeral Home, Goliad, Texas - Thursday, August 8, 2024 - Private Family Visitation from 4-5 PM, Public Visitation from 5-7 PM, and Rosary at 7 PM; Immaculate Conception Catholic Church – Friday, August 9, 2024 - Funeral Mass at 10 AM, followed by a reception until 1 PM and then burial followed at Hillside Cemetery, Cuero, Texas, at 2 PM.

Memorial donations can be made In lieu of flowers to St Jude Children’s Hospital or Immaculate Conception Catholic Church.