Ursula Memorial
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Ursula Maria Bromme, 84, of Elkhart, Texas, passed away on Monday, the 24th day of June, 2019. She was the daughter of Wilhelm and Beatrix (Konvalinka) Broecker and was born September 24, 1934 in Castrop-Rauxel, Germany. While Ursula was her given name, she was known by her friends, family and the community as “Oma”.
Oma immigrated from Germany with her husband, Heinz, and daughter, Barbara, in 1971. They initially moved to California and to Texas in 1986. Oma owned a German delicatessen in California and worked as a chef, housekeeper, and nanny in East Texas.
Oma was an amazing chef. Whether she was making sauerbraten, sauerkraut or her famous potato salad, there was not a meal that disappointed. She loved traveling. Heinz and her traveled the U.S. and made frequent trips to Germany and Spain, but Santa Fe, NM was one of her favorite places. Her style was always on point, whether she was making a trip to the grocery store, a nice dinner, or watching Dancing with the Stars; she always looked classy and never forgot her pearls. Kaffeklatsch was a special event for her, where she gathered with friends for coffee, cakes and conversation. On Sundays, she attended First Baptist Church of Elkhart.
Oma is preceded in death by her husband, Heinz; parents, Wilhelm and Beatrix Broecker; brother, Manfred; sister, Erika and brother-in-law, Gerd.
She will be greatly missed by her daughter, Barbara Keeton; sister, Hildegard; grandchildren, Jeremy (Kimberly) and Maria (Joshua); great-grandchildren, Amaya, Keeton and Otis; nieces, Irene, Karie, Julia, Beatrix, and Ellie; nephews, Daniel and Hans-Gerd; and sister-in-laws, Gertrud and Erika.
A special thank you to the Solaris Hospice team, especially, Jayme, Leslie, Sherri and Don. You are so appreciated.
29 “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.”
Excellence - there was grace for living the last year and a half. She seemed to believe in the healing God gave her for each day. The trips and appetite and strength are testimony to that. And the laughter! phone call
Example - In January of 2018 we began to praise God for the measure of healing He was providing in Ursula. For the next year and a half she continued to praise Him for giving her strength and energy to live. She carried herself with an optimism that blessed everyone around her.
The year plus I knew her before her diagnosis was filled with tears of mourning for her late husband. But the difficulty of another diagnosis of cancer seemed to steel her resolve.
Eternity - reminds us that
1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
What we hope for and what we can not yet see, she is experiencing.
But for us, we are still bound in a system that cannot be stopped. One that is a master to every creature. We live inside a measure of time.
1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
9 What gain has the worker from his toil?
10 I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.
11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
12 I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;
13 also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.
14 I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.
15 That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.
16 Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.
17 I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.
18 I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts.
19 For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity.
20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.
21 Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?
22 So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?
1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
One of the things not listed there, but that is so very important: there is a time to surrender. A time to believe. In a list of contrasts it would have been silly to include them. Because in the perspective of our relationship with God there is never a time to not surrender. Never a time to not believe.
When
As Mrs Ursula stepped into the beginning of her eternity, all that she had staked her faith in was realized. When I would leave her house she would say ‘tell Melonie I love her’. When she was so sick in the days before she passed she wold me ‘tell my church I love them’. But if there was one thing she could come back and tell you today, it would be ‘believe in God’. It would not be I love you or I miss you. Although she loved to say those things. It would be believe Him.