Laura Lee Kitzmiller

Laura Lee Kitzmiller “Kitz” passed from her earthly life into the arms of her loving Savior on Saturday, May 26, 2018, at 7:30 p.m. in her home in Bryan, Texas. Laura Kitzmiller was born September 9, 1947, a twin, with her sister, Linda Kitzmiller to Delphine Jakubik Kitzmiller and Arnold Kitzmiller in Sugarland, Texas. Laura graduated from Spring Branch High School in 1965, received and a B.A. from Houston Baptist University in 1969. She served as a teaching assistant in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Texas Tech in 1968 and 69’ and received an M.E. degree in Kinesiology from Texas Tech University in 1970. Laura taught Kinesiology at Texas Tech from 1970 to 1974, where she also coached the women’s swim team. She spent the remainder of her teaching career teaching in the Health and Kinesiology Department at Texas A&M University, from 1974 to 2000. In her years at Texas Tech she bonded with many students but especially the women on the Swim Team. That group continues to meet annually in a reunion and has continued to be long-distance friends of Laura over the years. During Laura’s years at Texas A&M University she began a program for EMT training, First Aid, First Aid Instructors, CPR, and CPR Instructors, which has continued to the present. She dedicated most of her professional life to the teaching of these life saving skills, coaching and playing several sports in her early years. Her influence in the training of Emergency Medical Technicians has been monumental in the Bryan-College Station Community for Firemen, and Ambulance Attendants as well as for first responders in many other communities in Texas. Laura was an excellent teacher whose teaching went exceedingly beyond the walls of the universities where she taught. Laura is preceded in death by her twin sister, Linda Kitzmiller Campbell, her mother, Delphine Jakubik Kitzmiller, her father, Arnold Kitzmiller, and her brother-in-law, Ron Campbell. Laura is survived by two nephews, Craig Scott Campbell and Brian Lee Campbell, a sister, Marilyn Guynes, a niece, Stacey Ardel Comer, and many cousins, aunts, uncles, colleagues and close personal friends. Funeral arrangements are provided by Davis-Greenlawn Funeral Chapel, 3900 B.F. Terry Boulevard, Rosenberg, TX., 77471, phone (281) 341-8800. A time of visitation with family and friends of Laura will be at the Funeral Chapel prior to the funeral, from 2:00-3:00 pm on Saturday, June 2, 2018. Memorials may be given in Laura’s remembrance to the Snook Brethren Church, Snook, Texas.

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Laura Lee Kitzmiller

September 9, 1947 - May 26, 2018