Paul Marx

Paul (Moses) Marx, Moses was born June 12, 1929 and passed away on August 5, 2021 with complications from Covid. He was a man of small stature, always full of energy and with a huge heart. He made everyone he met feel loved, valued and appreciated. He had a sharp memory and always remembered birthdays, anniversaries and historical dates. He loved history. When my sister performed our marriage years ago she told us that she tied a knot between us that no one could ever break. That knot has held firm despite the obstacles placed in our way. I loved that man and he loved me.

Moses and his brother, Harry, loved to travel and would drive to Colorado to hunt. He also went on many trips with his cousin Davis (DI) Rutter and wife, Gussie, to Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico and Oklahoma. He refused to fly so our travels extended to State Parks where we would hike, and a trip to Oklahoma.

In an effort to save money to build a home without toxic black mold, Moses and I would shell and sell pecans, home canned produce, fudge, sweet zucchini bread, honey, free-range eggs, etc on Hwy. 165 in Henly, Texas.

Moses was a people person and while bashful would talk to anyone/everyone he met. He knew more people than anyone I have ever known and all with fond memories. We could be at Home Depot and someone would pop their head around the corner and say, “Pauley”?

He loved to garden and had since he was a toddler when he would help his mother at their home in Oak Hill. Even at 92 years of age he maintained our eight gardens. While he was helping a neighbor cut up a fallen tree the chain saw ran out of gas and the neighbor suggested they wait until the next day to finish but Moses told him that we had gasoline and “let’s get it done”. The neighbor was tired but they got the gas and finished cutting up that tree. He said he couldn’t let my husband out-do him since he was 20 years younger. Moses raised flowers, potatoes (red, yellow, white), onions, radishes, beets, yellow squash, zucchini, cucumbers and last but not least, lots of tomatoes. He won ribbons at the Dripping Springs Farmers Market Tomato contest for several years in a row with the exception of 2020 and 2021 because of Covid. It always made him happy to share his crops with everyone.

He thoroughly enjoyed his Wednesday lunches at the Dripping Springs Hill Country Senior Center where he had many friends and conversations, in the days prior to Covid. He will dearly miss them.

We were also members of Home Church in Dripping Springs where he adored everyone and everyone adored him. During harvest time, he would take his garden bounty to church to share.

Moses and I were both Hospice Volunteers at Heart To Heart Hospice of San Marcos where we participated in the Grief Program, built ramps for those in need and helped with office work. We loved our hospice family and they loved us.

Prior to his passing, Moses contributed memories of his beloved brother Harry Marx for inclusion in Brenda Love Zejdl’s book, WWII Memoirs.

Paul’s loved one survivors: Johnnie Love-Marx (wife), Bonnie Marx (niece), SIL Brenda Love Zejdl (Mark), SIL Linda Love Bishop (Charles), SIL Becky Boerner (Chuck), SIL Gail Mattsen (Randy), SIL Jeane Dodson (Steve), BIL James Billings, niece Jenna Witek, niece Jeanie Denise Simmons (Jason), and his buddy, Alice Serrano.

Paul’s Clan Survivors: brother Donald Marx (Nellie), nephew Bill Marx, nephew Kenneth Marx, niece Sandra Worrell Jones (Bryan), nephew Keith Worrell, nephew Jimmy Kretzchmar (Debbie), niece Betty Townsend Fickel (Terry).

Previously deceased: Father Otto Marx and mother Annie Marx, Harry Marx (brother, best friend, housemates together at home for 84 years (except when Harry went into the Army, and surrogate father), Davis Rutter (dear friend and cousin), brother (Robert Henry Marx), sister Rosie Marx Worrell (Vernon), brother Otto Walter (Marie), sister Ella Annie, brother Monroe, sister Jane Marie, sister Mollie, sister Marie Kretzchmar (Marvin), niece Susie Townsend.

Viewing will be at Cook Walden Forest Oaks Funeral Home on West William Cannon in Oak Hill on Saturday Aug 14th from 5:00-7:00 pm. Masks required. Services will be at the funeral home on Sunday Aug 15th from 10:00 – 11:00 am with burial following at Fitzhugh Baptist Cemetery on Crumley Ranch Rd. Reception will then follow at Home Church 145 Broken Lance in Dripping Springs.

Pallbearers: Jimmy Billings, George Somerville, Bobby Boyd, Randy Mattsen, Steve Dodson, and Jeff Fluitt.