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Koller, Maureen

November 18, 1941 –
 April 15, 2015

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Maureen Davies Koller, 73, passed away on April 15, 2015, surrounded by family in Plano, Texas. Maureen was born on November 18, 1941, in New York City, to Howard Davies and Eva Marley Davies. She attended Holy Cross Academy in Manhattan. In 1960, she accompanied her aunt, Jean Marley O’Leary, to Vienna, Austria, where she met her future husband, Siegmar Koller. They were married in 1963 and raised four children:  Michelle, Steven, Jean Marie, and James. The Kollers settled in Dallas, Texas, in 1975. Maureen was a member of the Aquarius Group of North Dallas, Willow Bend Polo and Hunt Club of Plano, and of All Saints Catholic Church in Far North Dallas. Maureen is preceded in death by her parents, her brothers, Richard and Robert Davies, and her infant twin sister, Jean. She is survived by her husband and children and their spouses, Edward Pittman of Dallas, Tripp Mahan of West Hollywood, California, and Ernst Weinmann of Vienna, Austria.  She is also survived by her brother, Michael Davies, of Islip, New York.  Maureen found great joy in the company of her grandchildren:  Oliver and Isabelle Weinmann of Vienna, Austria, and Dylan and Jackson Koller of Frisco, Texas. A private reception in Dallas to celebrate her life will precede the scattering of her ashes along the seashore of her childhood summer home in Point Lookout, New York.  Should friends desire, memorials may be made to the charity of their choice. Arrangements are under the direction of ARIA Cremation Service and Funeral Home 19310 Preston Road Dallas, Texas 75252 214-306-6700

    james koller
    20 Apr 2015
    2:15pm

    We love you Mom… I miss you so bad… You would have said “so badly”…

    bob betts
    24 Apr 2015
    5:56pm

    So sorry fro your loss.Many of us at Aquarius will miss her.

    Steven Koller
    25 Apr 2015
    9:48am

    “If you care to find me, look towards the western sky; as someone told me lately, everyone deserves the chance to fly”…thanks for that chance, Mom. I will always love and cherish you.

    Alicia Barksdale
    25 Apr 2015
    10:17am

    I have wonderful memories of Maureen as our next door neighbor in Bowie MD many years ago in the early 70s. She was fun-loving and vivacious , a great mom to Michelle, Stevie and Jeannie and especially loved her beautiful collies Lady and Sir. I know she is a bright light in heaven.

    Stori Schulze
    25 Apr 2015
    5:58pm

    I will always honor and appreciate the honest advice I always received from Maureen. She was a wonderful mother in law and I truly valued her opinion. She understood the joys and struggles of motherhood and always reminded me that I was loved and doing a good job. She will be missed always and I’ll continue to look to her for guidance!!

    Michelle and Richard Unwin
    27 Apr 2015
    7:32pm

    Maureen was extraordinary. She made a lasting impression on anyone who had the privilege to know her. We hope the Koller family knows how much we will miss her! Our love to you all!

    Tina Lankford
    31 May 2018
    11:34am

    You would know the secret of death.
    But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
    The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.
    If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.
    For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

    In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;
    And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
    Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
    Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
    Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king?
    Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?

    For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
    And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

    Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
    And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
    And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

    Dylan Koller
    17 Apr 2020
    2:03am

    It’s been five years Grandma… I love you and miss you every day. I have some really great friends that I talk to about you. I know your watching over us. We love and miss you Grandma… P.S hay is for horses…

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