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Cynthia Anne Bishop Borgelt
Cynthia Anne (Bishop) Borgelt was born in Washington, DC on September 7, 1940 to adoring and adorable parents Frederick Sedgwick Bishop and Dorothea Anne (Welland) Bishop. She passed away peacefully but unexpectedly on November 22, 2021, at age 81, from complicaMons of Parkinson’s.
Her father’s early posiMon with the Pennsylvania Railroad took them as young marrieds to Washington, DC. Shortly thereaRer, Cynthia’s family moved back to Kansas City, Missouri for her father to work in a family business while her delighUul mother, Dorothea, (“Dorothea, not Dorothy”), greeted many happy customers at the city’s downtown department store, Emery Bird. Cynthia’s only sibling, her brother Timothy, was a star athlete, her father was oRen his coach, so much of her Mme growing up was spent accompanying her parents to the many games, whether it was of her choosing or preferred schedule. Favorite memories which she talked about through the years were singing in the Methodist Church choir and weekly choir pracMces enjoyed with her dad.
Cynthia was educated in the public schools in Kansas City, Missouri, and took a posiMon upon graduaMon from East High School as Secretary to Mr. George Marvin, president of the Vernon Law Book Company. There, she met her future husband, Roger W. Borgelt, who was also working for Mr. Marvin, originally as a bookkeeper. Roger and Cindy married in 1960, as Roger assumed a sales posiMon covering the states of Kansas and Missouri. Soon the company, which became West Publishing, offered the opportunity to represent them throughout most of Texas.
In 1963, they set their sights on a great unknown future, leaving family behind in Missouri and Kansas, and arrived in AusMn with their infant son, Roger Blane, when AusMn!s populaMon was less than 200,000, much smaller then, than Kansas City. They grew their family in AusMn, with daughters Krista and Audra soon added to the family. In addiMon to raising three children in the Northwest Hills community, Cindy sang in the choir at Northwest Hills United Methodist Church for many years, as she had done with her father growing up in Kansas City. She also enjoyed beauMfying the flower beds as a church volunteer, and her long-Mme parMcipaMon with friends and neighbors in the Sierra Verde Garden Club.
Their youngest daughter, Audra, was born in 1971 and very beloved. ARer reMring, the Bishops moved to AusMn to be closer to Audra and the family, and to bestow unending love on them as doMng grandparents, always along for many vacaMons in the U.S. and adventures in those years.
Once reMred, Roger, Cindy and Audra traveled the world together, visiMng London, Ireland, Wales, Kenya and Tanzania, Australia, New Zealand, Peru and Ecuador. They also enjoyed their Mme at the Texas coast. During most hot Texas summers, they enjoyed a beauMful mountain home in Durango.
Although diagnosed with Parkinson!s some ten years ago, Cindy maintained her wry sense of humor to the end, and was predeceased by her husband Roger, earlier this year, from complicaMons of leukemia. They leave behind three children, Roger Blane Borgelt and wife Mary Ellen, Krista Borgelt-Gonzales and husband Ron, Audra Nicole Borgelt, all of AusMn, and four wonderful grandchildren, Ronald, Samantha, Alexis and Brianna Gonzales. Cynthia is also survived by her brother Tim Bishop of Wichita, Kansas, and many nieces and nephews spread across the country, with whom she kept up and in touch most of her life.
“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” Isaiah 40:31
A memorial service for both Roger and Cynthia Borgelt will be held at Riverbend Church, Smith Family Chapel on Friday, December 17th at 11:00 am with a recepMon to follow.
Memorial contribuMons may be made to Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, The University of Texas at
AusMn, 4801 La Crosse Avenue, AusMn, TX 78739 or Riverbend Church, memo “Riverbend Mission Fund”, 4214 N Capital of Texas Highway, AusMn, TX 78746.
Posted online on December 11, 2021
Published in Austin American Statesman
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