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Billie Earlene Morse Feuerbacher
was born to Raymond and Betty Morse on July 18th, 1952. Growing up in Irving, Texas, Billie enjoyed playing outside, fishing, catching horny toads with her siblings, and dressing identically head-to-toe in matching clothes her mother would handmake the entire family when they’d go on long road-trips across the country. A high-ranking officer for the Irving Tiger Drill Team, Billie graduated, worked full time, attended college classes, and lived independently.
Billie was set-up on a blind date with Alan Feuerbacher in the Spring of 1970. After asking her to “pick a date”, Alan and Billie married on March 12, 1976. They had their first daughter, Sarah Ann, “the child born on the Sabbath Day” as Billie would recite, on December 9th, 1979, and their “baby girl”, Haley Lane, on May 8th, 1984, named after the Halley’s comet so she could shoot for the stars. Billie loved going for day-long bike rides, playing outside (especially tennis because she could beat everyone), singing along to records and dancing to Aretha Franklin, and celebrating holidays with the most elaborate meals and decorations. When Sarah married Jonathan Wells, and Haley married John “SB” Kroboth, her son-in-laws became her sons, and she was so proud of who they were for her family and for theirs.
Perhaps her greatest joy in life, and where she would shine the most, was as Grandmama to her beloved grandsons Christian Feuer, Taylor Austin, and Michael Aiden. Together with her family, Billie loved traveling, especially to Galveston and Colorado, and she made their Colorado cabin her dream home with Alan. There was no place they could go that she would not show up for her family, no fight she would not take up for what she believed was right for them, no struggle she was too scared to enter for her loved ones. She was a free spirit and lived life with few inhibitions and with total passionate abandon. She was an adventurer, a nature girl, pure courage, big dreams, and passionate feelings, like wildfire.
There was nothing she could not do exceptionally: sing, dance, paint, draw, bake, cook, lead, create, build, teach, write, grow, heal, design, envision, decorate, solve, cultivate, inspire. She laughed easily and loudly, with the kind of laugh that made her throw her head back and wipe tears from her eyes. It was the sound of pure joy, and it was impossible not to laugh along with her. She was her family’s leader in faith and used every opportunity to grow closer to her Lord and Savior. Amazing Grace was her comfort, and she was ours. She was beautiful.
Billie wrote a letter to the love of her life, Alan, prior to their wedding and said about him: “I didn’t think I could love him more than I already did. I was wrong.” She was so connected to Alan that she used his birthday as her own date to go to heaven. Billie, Mom, Grandmama, we say the same to you: We didn’t think we could love you more than we already did. We were wrong. Thank you for all the love, adventures, friendship, lessons and selfless self-giving. You loved life completely and wanted to live, and you did to the fullest. We love you forever. You are our hero and the wind beneath our wings. Well done, good and faithful beloved Servant.
JULY 18, 1952 – JULY 7, 2020 https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/frisco-tx/billie-feuerbacher-9251745
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