Ernest Wisian

Ernest Edgar Wisian, age 90, passed from this world on December 20, 2016 after a protracted illness.
As requested by Ernest, his body will be cremated and his life will be celebrated later by relatives and close friends. There will not be a public viewing of the body.
MEMORIALS: Donations to CARE or other worldwide humanitarian organizations are requested in lieu of flowers.
Ernest wrote the following obituary 7 years ago; it was long and premature, not out of vanity but out of characteristic thoroughness and the desire to spare others any trouble.
Ernest was born on a farm near Robstown, Texas, about 22 miles west of Corpus Christi, on September 25, 1926. A seven month preemie, he weighed only two pounds at birth. His parents used a shoe box as a baby bed, sometimes covering the box with the lid with cut out air holes. In his first year of life, Ernest barely survived mumps, measles, chicken pox, whooping cough, and one other childhood disease.
Born into a family of German heritage, Ernest grew up bilingual in German and English. From early childhood through his teenage years, he was handicapped by a severe stutter caused by a blow on the head by a younger relative. This frustrating social handicap, which was more severe when speaking German, was further complicated by obesity lasting into his teenage years. However, by the time this 5'11” young man was drafted into the U. S. Army in March 1945, he had overcome his stutter and reduced his weight to 135 pounds.
In 1940, when Ernest was 14, the extended family moved from Robstown to Realitos in Duval County, about 60 miles east of Laredo, Texas. In this rustic and isolated rural community of deep blowing sand and limestone outcroppings, the extended family took up dairy farming and raising peanuts. From 1940 to 1944, Ernest commuted 50 miles a day to Benavides High School, Benavides, Texas. He also took neighbor children to their schools in Realitos and Benavides, initially driving his brother's 1933 Ford and later a 1936 Packard. Sixteen of these daily miles were unpaved, deep and sandy, rutted roads. He graduated with distinction from Benavides High School.
Ernest returned from the Army in October 1945 just as the extended family was moving to Cuero, Texas, an area more favorable to dairy farming. In 1946, Ernest “escaped” from his parents' dairy farm and had several employments in the Cuero area for four years, obtaining a private pilot's license at a local airport along the way.
In April 1950, Ernest came to Fort Worth for employment. He enrolled in TCU Evening College in the 1950 summer semester and continued in Evening College to a Master's Degree in Psychology in 1960 while working full time in his day jobs. Early in this period, Ernest met Beatrice Joyce Bukowski at a YMCA dance. They were married on August 29, 1951. Three daughters were born between 1955 and 1960.
Ernest's day jobs included aptitude testing and counseling, personnel administration, personnel management, sales analysis, fund raising, and staff support. In 1961, Ernest took employment as one of a staff of region-wide personnel administrators with the eight-state Southwest Region of Internal Revenue Service headquartered in Dallas. When he retired from that agency in 1992, he had provided direct staff support to the IRS Regional Commissioner for the previous 10 years.
Ernest enjoyed political activism (Democrat), writing, studying the leading edges of physics and metaphysics, foreign and domestic travel, camping, music (including foreign, mystical, and exotic), gardening, maintenance and fix-it jobs, spiritual development (including the concept of reincarnation), and just being Pawpaw.
Since this obituary was composed in 2009, Ernest lost his beloved wife, Beatrice but gained two perfect great-grandchildren.
SURVIVORS: Ernest is survived by his older brother, Edwin Wisian; three daughters, Teresa Godbey, Susan Pantle, and Lisa Muscarella and their husbands; five grandchildren, Noah Boydston, Thomas Allen, Elena Muscarella, Natalie Allen, and Sarah Muscarella; two step-grandchildren, Meredith Clark and Philip Clark; and three great-grandchildren, Madelyn Allen, Luca Muscarella, and Marianne Noon.

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