Kathleen Lillian (Baxter) Hernandez

Kathleen Lillian (Baxter) Hernandez age 77, of Santa Fe, died Tuesday, October 7, 2025, at Saint Mary's Medical Center in Long Beach, CA. Memorial services will be held at 11:00 A.M., Friday, November 14, 2025, at Carnes Funeral Home in Texas City.

Entombment will take place at Houston National Cemetery next to her husband, Charles.

Kathleen was born August 1, 1948, in Galveston to Stanton Harold Baxter and Rosalie (Croft) Baxter. A 1966 graduate of Ball High School, she participated in choir, Pep Club, and Future Nurses. She was first married to Michael Allen Cravey, with whom she had one child. She divorced and married Charles Arthur Hernandez and shared two sons.

Kathleen completed some college and was a medical transcriptionist for the larger part of her career. Since her husband worked for the VA they moved around quite a lot as a family. Kathleen loved her family and cherished her friends. She was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. She was a foodie and loved retail therapy - especially when it came to shoes - often times buying them in multiple colors. She loved morning tea with milk and honey, the sound of her sons and Charlie laughing, Galveston, her dogs, jewelry, spending time with her grandchildren and watching Turner Classics, the news, Golden Girls, and The Nanny.

She is preceded in death by her husband of 42 years, Charles Arthur Hernandez; her parents, Stanton Harold and Rosalie Baxter; her daughter, Michele Kathleen (Cravey) Murdoch; and a brother, Stanton Harold "Buddy" Baxter, Jr. Survivors include her sons, Christopher Hernandez and wife Alicia of Mérida, Mexico, and John Hernandez and wife Margaret of Los Angeles, CA; grandchildren, Dylan Abner of Norfolk, VA, CPT Jorge Casares (U.S. Army) of Fort Meyers, FL, Allison Hernandez of Charlotte, NC, and Abigail Hernandez of Los Angeles, CA; her brother, John William Baxter of Santa Fe, TX; and numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America.