November 25, 1926 – March 15, 2021
Mamie Nell Isensee Bondy died on Monday, March 15, 2021. She was 94. Mrs. Bondy grew up in Karnes City, TX. She was the daughter of Harry W. Isensee and Laura Jauer Isensee, and sister to Clarence T. Isensee and Martha Ann (Isensee) Williams.
She began her college years in the summer of 1944 at the University of Texas at Austin. While attending school, she joined the Catholic Church, where she was an active participant in the Newman Club, an on-campus Catholic student group. During this time, she met Morgan A. (Tiny) Bondy, whom she married in 1952. They later moved to Arlington and then to Garland in 1958.
Mrs. Bondy gave birth to four children: Christina, Stephen, Michele and Claire. During their childhood she was a full-time homemaker, chauffeuring her children back and forth to Good Shepherd School while still finding time to participate and be president of the Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO), act as a scout leader and attend graduate school.
Mrs. Bondy was a loving and patient companion to Morgan through his final years when the effect of heart disease took its toll; he died in 1993.
Her husband, parents, brother Clarence, brother-in-law Robert Bondy, MD, and sisters-in-law Agnes Walters and Iantha Huggins preceded Mrs. Bondy in death. She is survived by her sister Martha Williams. She leaves four children: daughter Christina Allday-Bondy (James) of Albuquerque, son Stephen Bondy (Carolyn) of Wimberley, daughters Michele Bondy of San Antonio and Claire Bondy, who resides in El Cajon, CA. She is also survived by her granddaughter, Caitlin Burke (nee Allday) and her husband, Mike of Dallas, and her great-granddaughter, Aideen Marie Burke, as well as 20 nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions in her name be made to either Hospice Austin or to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
Memorial services will be held at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Wimberley, Texas on Saturday, March 27 at 2:00 p.m.