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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.

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!

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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

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.

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.

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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.