Lillye Sanders

Lillye Zimmerman Sanders, 102, passed away Monday, April 22, 2024.

Graveside services will be Thursday at 11 a.m. in the Giddings City Cemetery in Giddings. A memorial service will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at St. John Lutheran Church in Hamilton.

She was born June 16, 1921, in Lincoln to John Christian Zimmerman and Hulda Lehman Zimmerman.

She graduated from Giddings High School and entered nurses training with Seton Hospital in Austin. She completed training and re- ceived her certification as a Registered Nurse in 1946.

She met the love of her life and married Wilbert O. Sanders in 1948. She worked at Seton Hospital in Austin and at the Austin Diagnostic Clinic with her beloved doctor, Leonard Sayers, and his wife, Rosalee Sayers. She retired in 1982.

She loved to travel with Wilbert, enjoying the outdoors, and together they fished in many Texas lakes.

She enjoyed gardening and reading.

She moved to Hamilton in April 2014 to be near her niece and nephew, Tom and Connie White.

She was a lifelong Lutheran and a member of St. John Lutheran Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her siblings, Harriett Krause, Bettye Clark and Paul Zimmerman and sisters-in-law Alvina Koslan and Jewell Zimmerman.

Survivors include her sister- in-law, Lucille Sanders; nieces Charlotte Busch and husband Paul, Joyce Zimmerman and family, Connie White and husband Tom, Catherine Gruetzner and family and many other nieces and nephews.

Memorials may be made to St. John Lutheran Church and Academy in Hamilton.