Mrs. Julia Clementine Hatcher, nee Uroda, "Clemmie"

12/15/1940  -  05/12/2024

Clemmie passed away peacefully at Sodalis Assisted Living facility in Texas City after a short battle with advanced metastatic cancer a little after 5AM Sunday morning, May 12th, Mother's Day.

Clemmie was born in Galveston to Clement F. "Jack" Uroda and Helen Tacquard Uroda, the youngest of three children after James C. Uroda and Mary Ann Uroda Doore. She grew up in Galveston and attended Catholic schools, graduating from Sacred Heart High School in 1958.

She met and married William L. "Billy" Young, from which union were born 2 children: Julie Young and then Simeon Young. Unfortunately, she and Billy were divorced.

In about 1970 she met and married Theodore "Ted" Hatcher. They established their home in LaMarque. At about the same time she started her career in the marine agency business  when she went to work at Texana Marine Agency in Texas City.  That agency ran into financial difficulties and went suddenly out of business. Clemmie and another ex-Texana agent, Pat Fisher, quickly set up their own agency, Gulf Marine Services, headquartered in Ted and Clemmie's garage in LaMarque which was remodeled into an office. She and Pat were able to salvage a fair amount of Texana accounts. This was arguably the happiest time of Clemmie's life, being a principle of her own business, dealing with shipowners from all over the world and handling the requirements for ships in ports along the Gulf Coast. After a few years the ships she handled and the companies she represented started to disappear. Her partner had to find other work and she eventually and regretfully closed the agency down. In the meantime Ted had retired from Union Carbide.

Soon after, she and Ted moved to Burnet in the Hill Country, NW of Austin. They had a lovely home there with expansive views and a herd of Longhorns grazing on a ranch just a few yards away. Unfortunately, after several happy years Ted came down with lung cancer and soon passed away. After another year, or so, she moved back to LaMarque, into the same subdivision, Borondo Pines, as her sister Mary Ann. Here she spent her final years, comfortably, as a retired widow until the symptoms of her illness became worse and worse, for her last five months, culminating at Sodalis.

Clemmie, a member of the LaMarque Garden Club, enjoyed gardening around her home, was a gourmet cook, was an avid jigsaw puzzler (particularly if the pictures were of dogs), and she loved reading. She enjoyed being in a Pokeno group, loosely based here in Borondo.  She enjoyed casino trips to Louisiana…her last trip was in December with her sister Mary Ann & niece Kathy Cooper, just before she started having serious symptoms of her malady.

Clemmie is predeceased by her parents, both of her husbands, and her son Simeon. She is survived to cherish her memory by her brother James Uroda and wife Saralyn of Lake Jackson, her sister Mary Ann Doore and husband George, her daughter Julie and husband Greg Stevenson of Seneca, SC, and many nieces, nephews, and cousins, especially in the extended Tacquard Clan, and many friends. She also leaves behind her beloved sweet dachshund Lucy who will be lovingly cared for by Mary Ann & George.

The family would like to extend many thanks to the staff and nurses at Sodalis and the nurses with Compassus Hospice for their good care of Clemmie in her final days.

Per Clemmie's wishes, she will be cremated and no service is planned at this time. The family may have a Celebration of Life at a later date.