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Augusta Matthews
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Augusta Shearer Sasser Matthews was joined with Christ on Feb. 29, 2024. Augusta was affectionately known as Gusta by her grandchildren. She was proud of her three boys and their families.
Augusta was born in Uvalde, Texas, at midnight. The doctor put on her birth certificate that she was born on Aug. 13, but her mother told her that was wrong and that she was born on Aug. 14, 1931. Her parents were Clara Ernestina Bertha Trebes and Joseph Milton (Mitt) Shearer. While in high school, she was Miss Pearsall and participated as Miss Pearsall in the San Antonio Fiesta Flambeau Parade. She went on to college at Mary Hardin-Baylor College in Belton, Texas and then taught English in Crystal City. While there, she met Alexander Ford Sasser Jr., who was ranching west of Dilley, and they married on Dec. 27, 1952. Their first son, Alexander Ford Sasser III, was born while they were at the ranch in Dilley, then, in 1955, they moved to College Station, where her husband completed his degree at Texas A&M College. That is where their second son, Charles Trebes Sasser, was born. They later moved to Poteet, where their third son, Milton Stuart Sasser, was born. In 1958, they started a John Deere tractor dealership (Sasser Equipment Company) in San Antonio. In 1972, they moved their family to Uvalde and established a new International Harvester tractor dealership known as Sasser’s, with locations in Uvalde and Dilley. She lost her husband, Ford Jr., to cancer in March 1974 and closed the business. She remained in Uvalde until she met and married Bob Matthews from Sikeston, Missouri. She moved to Sikeston, but she and Bob enjoyed trips back to Texas to be with children and grandchildren. They also enjoyed traveling to see other countries. She lost her husband, Bob, to cancer in April 1995. She left her Sikeston friends and returned to Uvalde in December 1995. In February 2012, she moved back to San Antonio, where she lived at the Towers.
Augusta was active in the San Antonio Junior League, was on the Board of Directors of the Uvalde Savings and Loan, served on the Board of Directors of the Uvalde Country Club and was active in many other organizations.
Augusta was an active member of the Alamo Heights Presbyterian Church while living in San Antonio and First Presbyterian Church of Uvalde. In Sikeston, she was a member of the Methodist Church. After moving back to San Antonio, she was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and a Bible study group. Her faith was strong in her Creator, and she knew Christ as her personal Lord and Savior.
Augusta was preceded in death by her parents, Milton (Mit) Shearer and Clara Trebes Shearer, her brother Milton (Mit) Shearer Jr. and her two husbands.
She is survived by her sons, A. Ford Sasser III (Abbie) of McAllen, Texas; C. Trebes Sasser (Laura) of San Antonio; and M. Stuart Sasser (Keleigh) of Corpus Christi, Texas. She had nine grandchildren: Caroline Hutton (Trey), Amanda Lauren Sasser, Miles Sasser, Trebes Sasser Jr. (Michelle), Emily Sasser, Elise Leiss (Ernst III), Michael Sasser (Christina), Campbell Sasser (Virginia), and Kristen Steritt (Robbie). She also had 23 great-grandchildren.
The family also feels close to Jane Gonzalez and Elizabeth (Liz) Sturdivant, the caregivers of Augusta for the latter years of her life, and who held her hand and cared for her so gently right up to her last breath.
A memorial service will take place on Saturday, March 9, 2024, beginning at 11 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 404 N. Alamo St., San Antonio, Texas 78205. For those unable to attend, you may watch the livestreaming from the link within her obituary page at porterloring.com.
You are invited to sign the guestbook at www.porterloring.com.
Arrangements with Porter Loring Mortuary 1101 McCullough Ave. San Antonio, TX. 78212 – (210) 227-8221.
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The family asks that donations be made to a charity that Augusta supported for many years for special needs high school graduates called C.A.M.P. University at P.O. Box 2294, McAllen, Texas 78502. C.A.M.P. can be found at CAMPUniversity.org.