MARGARET POSPISIL VRAZEL OCT. 24, 1940 - JAN. 4, 2026

Margaret Pospisil Vrazel, 85, of Westphalia and formerly of Yarrellton, passed away Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, at a Temple hospital.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 8, at Sts. Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church in Marak. Burial will follow in Sts. Cyril & Methodius Catholic Cemetery. Visitation was held from 5–7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 7, with a rosary recited at 7 p.m. at Marek-Burns-Laywell Funeral Home.

She was born Oct. 24, 1940, to Frank and Annie (Cmerek) Pospisil in Corn Hill. She graduated from Jarrell High School on May 25, 1959.

Margaret married the love of her life, Lawrence Vrazel Jr., on May 21, 1960, at Holy Trinity Church in Corn Hill, with the Rev. George Doskocil officiating. They met at the SPJST Hall in Holland, where Lawrence played drums in the Vrazel’s polka band.

She was a member of Sts. Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church in Marak, the Altar Society and KJZT Society No. 21.

Margaret was a homemaker and also worked at the Cameron Dress Factory and Green’s Landscaping Nursery. She volunteered for Scott & White sewing lap blankets and dolls for the children’s hospital.

She loved sewing, quilting and embroidery. She and her husband enjoyed attending church picnics and polka dances across Texas. She also enjoyed the outdoors and helped her husband with farming and cattle. In recent years, she enjoyed Caribbean cruises. Her Catholic faith was central to her life, and she prayed the rosary daily. Margaret treasured her children, grandsons, great-granddaughter and, most of all, her husband of 57 years. She also dearly loved her cat, Orange, her faithful companion.

She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; and her brother, Frank Pospisil Jr.

Survivors include daughters Elizabeth Strehler and husband Randall of Troy and Patricia Hoelscher and husband Mark of Westphalia; grandsons Matthew Hoelscher and wife Cortney of Westphalia and Kyle Hoelscher of Westphalia; great-granddaughter Miller; and sister Victoria Domel of Taylor.

Memorials may be made to the Sts. Cyril & Methodius Cemetery Fund.