John Ramsey, Sr

Biography

John Cade Ramsey, Sr., 72 of Hillsboro went to be with his heavenly father on March 24, 2019 at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Temple. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at Open Range Cowboy Church in Whitney with Marshall and Marshall Funeral Directors in Whitney in charge of the services Burial will follow at Ridge Park Cemetery in Hillsboro. A visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday evening at the funeral home in Whitney.

John was born in Clifton, Texas on July 9, 1946. He was the son of John Cicero Ramsey and Mary Katherine McCown Ramsey of Whitney, Texas.

John graduated from Whitney High School in 1964 and attended Hill College for one year, where he met his wife of fifty-two years. He married Susan Bond on June 23, 1966. He graduated from Baylor University in 1968 with a Bachelor of Business Administration.

After graduation, John joined the management program at JC Penney and helped open the Six Flags Mall JC Penney store. He served six years in the United States Army Reserve beginning in 1969. In 1971 John and Susan moved to Hillsboro to manage Bond Furniture for his father-in- law for sixteen years. He served as Hillsboro Chamber of Commerce president in 1976. As Chamber President, John traveled to Washington D.C. to lobby for the construction of the Lake Aquilla Dam. He later started Ramsey Auction Service where he sold antiques and estates for eighteen years. Many have great memories of the fun the customers and workers had at the auctions. The last ten years he worked as a seismograph permit agent. He and his wife traveled for his job and lived in many beautiful places they had never been.

John spent countless hours riding horses with his grandkids, taking them to playdays and attending their activities and sporting events. Besides his family, John’s greatest accomplishment was receiving his thirty six year chip from Alcoholics Anonymous earlier this month. He was a member of Open Range Cowboy Church where he served on the arena team. John also served as a lay pastor at Open Range Cowboy Church and was honored to have been able to baptize five of his grandchildren.

He is preceded in death by his parents and his birth mother, Sydonia Zander Sommerfeld; and a sister, Cynthia Finstad.
John is survived by his wife Susan; children Mary Kay Zamzow and husband Michael of Whitney, John Ramsey, Jr. and wife Tracy of Hillsboro, Rebecca Pustejovsky and husband Craig of Abbott, Deborah Brooks and husband Rick of Hillsboro; grandchildren Michael Zamzow and wife Lindley, Austin Zamzow, Kara Zamzow, Kendree Zamzow, Cadie Ramsey, John Cade Ramsey, III, Carlie Ramsey, Hunter Pustejovsky, Hayden Pustejovsky, Bethany Kazda, Will Kazda and Landree Brooks; brothers, Jimmy Sommerfeld of Laguna Park, Howard Sommerfeld and wife Elizabeth of Waco, sister Ellen Shields of Clifton; brother-in-law, Bill Bond and wife, Caroline of Richardson; nephew, Dr. Kirk Bond and wife Leanna of Temple, niece Suzanne Bond of Richardson; godchildren, Susan Stanford of Las Colinas and David Stanford of South Pasadena California; and numerous nieces and nephews.


Memorials may be made to the Open Range Cowboy Church Arena Team, 582 FM 1713, Whitney, Texas 76692 or the Down Syndrome Guild of Dallas, 1702 N. Collins Blvd, #170, Richardson, Texas 75080.