Lucille Lorine Kretschmar

Lucille Lorine Kretschmar

TexasConfirmed

Kristin's paternal grandmother · 1925–2001

Born

25 August 1925, Austin, Travis County, Texas

Died

14 April 2001, Hays County, Texas

Parents

Will Kretschmar & Liessi Ladusch

Sources

8

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1925

Born 25 August 1925, Austin, Travis County, Texas S33S34. Hers is the reason the family was in Austin at all

it is her home town, not her husband's.

Death2001

Died 14 April 2001, Hays County, Texas; buried Austin Memorial Park, plot 1-566-7, with her husband. Her marker reads "Married to Thomas" S34

Schooling1942

🆕 She played in the Austin High School Orchestra. “Kretschmar, Lucille” is on the Orchestra Personnel roster in the 1942 Comet, when she was 16. The group photograph has no names, so she is not pointed out in it S438. added 25 September 2026.

Birth1942

🆕 In the same 1942 Comet she is Treasurer of the new square-dance club “Swing and Turn”, for both the fall and spring terms, listed as “Lucile Kretschmar”, the spelling on her birth certificate Confirmed S971S264. added 29 September 2026

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Names—

Recorded variously as Lucille Lorine Caffey and Lucille Lorene Kretschmar

the spelling of the middle name is unstable across records S33S34

Parents—

Daughter of Will Kretschmar and Liessi Ladusch

NUMIDENT parent fields S33

Parents—

Grandfather on her father's side Julius Franz Kretschmar S34; grandparents on her mother's side Otto Paul Ladusch and Emma Stein Ladusch S327S328

Names1941

🆕 A year earlier, the 1941 Comet lists “Kretschmar” among the second violins. It gives the surname only, but she is the only Kretschmar in the orchestra S501. added 25 September 2026.

In the record Generation 3 — Kristin's grandparents

1. S33US Social Security NUMIDENT / Death Master File / VA-BIRLS, and the Texas Marriage and Divorce indexes — Caffey entries, republished verbatim at SortedByName.com. Government records. Supplies T.W. Caffey Jr's birth at "Salado Bell, Texas" and his parents Thomas W Caffey and Medie Stobaugh; Lucille's birth at "Austin Travi, Texas" and her parents Will Kretschmar and Liessi Ladusch; his Marine Corps service 1941–45; the shared Wimberley retirement ZIP; and the 1969 Caffey–Walker marriage and its 1980 dissolution. The Caffey pages 403'd on a second attempt the same day.
2. S34FindAGrave memorials, Caffey / Kretschmar / Ladusch — Thomas Alan Caffey 274110930, Thomas Walton Caffey Jr 39163436, Lucille Lorene Kretschmar Caffey 39163435, Thomas Walton Caffey Sr 62147776, Medie Caffey Stobaugh 62147759, Willie Frank Kretschmar 41405071, Hattie "Liessi" Ladusch Kretschmar 41405070. Grave inscriptions, plot numbers and dates are transcriptions of stones. Family links on FindAGrave are contributor-asserted, not records — they corroborate here and are never the basis. Memorial 62147776 additionally quotes Texas death certificate #16496, which is a record.
3. S264Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1903-1932 — Lucile Kretschmar. Ancestry record 1079872. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Texas birth certificate: Lucile Kretschmar, b. 25 Aug 1925, 3905 Ave. B, Austin; father Willie F. Kretschmar 34, carpenter, b. Travis Co.; mother Liessi Ladusch 27, b. New Ulm, Texas.
4. S3271900 U.S. Federal Census — Otto Ladusch household, Austin Ward 10, Travis County, Texas. Ancestry collection 7602, record 44319545. Read from the image. Otto 26, born Germany, immigrated 1883, married 5 years; wife Emma, born March 1875, Texas, 2 children both living; daughters Frieda 3 and Elizabeth 2.
5. S3281910 U.S. Federal Census — Otto Ladusch household, 1617 Willow Street, Austin. Ancestry collection 7884, record 28679316. Read from the image. Otto 36, Emma, Freda 13, “Liccie” 11.
6. S438U.S., School Yearbooks — Austin High School Comet, Austin, Texas, 1942: Orchestra Personnel. Ancestry record 1449559491. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed The Orchestra page of Austin High School: the orchestra was founded in 1938, and 67 names are on the roster. “Kretschmar, Lucille” is in the third column. The year 1942 is Ancestry's volume date, not printed on the page. The page gives only her name. The identification rests on the rare surname, the school and her age, 16. The group photograph carries no names, so she cannot be picked out in it.
7. S501U.S., School Yearbooks — The Comet, Austin High School, 1941: Orchestra roster. Ancestry record 954452717. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable Under “Second Violin”: “Kretschmar”, the only Kretschmar in the orchestra. Surname only. Lucille, born August 1925 in Austin, fits the age; the 1942 roster (S438) gives her full name.
8. S971Austin High School, Austin, Texas, The Comet (1942), page 139 — “Swing and Turn” square-dance club. Ancestry record 958836662. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 28 September 2026. Confirmed The officers of the newly organised square-dance club “Swing and Turn” (32 members) list Lucile Kretschmar, Treasurer, for both the fall and spring terms. “Lucile” is the spelling on her birth certificate (S264). The same yearbook has her on the orchestra roster (S438). “Kretschmar” is also the last name in the standing row of the group photograph, but the caption is cropped at the left and she is not pointed out, so the photograph is not used to identify her. Collection: U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880–2012 (db 1265, image 43134_b183189-00142).