Joyce Green Augustine McBride
Joyce Green Augustine McBride, 89, died Feb. 25, 2011, in Kingsland. She was born in Brewster County on July 4, 1921, to William Carroll and Ethel Conner Green.
She was the daughter and granddaughter of pioneer West Texas ranching families.
After her father’s death in 1927, she moved to Coke County and graduated from Robert Lee High School. In 1939, she married J.S. Augustine, a Sterling County rancher. The couple made their home on the Augustine Ranch north of Sterling City.
During her years on the ranch, she kept busy raising her children, gardening and doing the unending work involved in the ranching business. Occasionally, she would sell excess eggs and milk to friends in town to earn extra money. For several years, she worked for the General Telephone Company in Sterling City, where she became proficient as a long-distance telephone operator and PBX operator. She was an active member of the Church of Christ in Sterling City.
After she divorced her first husband, she married J.C. McBride of Big Spring. They moved to Burnet, where she worked as a real estate agent for Hanzen Real Estate. After he died, she lived for a time in Llano before moving to an assisted-living facility in Marble Falls. The last years of her life were spent as a resident of Kingsland Hills Care Center in Kingsland.
Survivors include sons John C. Augustine and wife Marian of Austin and Scott Augustine and wife Barbara of Llano; daughter Brenda Blackwell of Hueytown, Ala.; brothers Garlan Green of Horseshoe Bay and Bill Green of Tuscola; eight grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and numerous nephews and nieces.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her former husband; brother J.D. Green; and granddaughter Kaylee Augustine.
A service is 2 p.m. March 1 at Waldrope-Hatfield-Hawthorne Funeral Home, 307 E. Sandstone in Llano, (325) 247-4300.
A graveside service is 1 p.m. March 2 at the McKenzieville Cemetery in Coke County.
The family thanks the doctors, nurses and staff of Kingsland Hills for their care.
In lieu of flowers, memorials be made to a favorite charity.
Condolences may be sent to whhfuneral1@verizon.net or made online at www.whhfuneralhome.com.