Albert Rasberry

Albert Rasberry, 89, of Temple, Texas passed from this life on August 17,2025. Funeral Services will be held at 2 PM on Wednesday, August 20, 2025, in the Chapel of Krestridge Funeral Home with family officiating. Interment will follow in the family cemetery on the family-owned land.

Albert Dale Rasberry was born in Evangeline, Louisiana on October 8, 1935, the fourth child of Albert Dee Rasberry & Anna Maria Daigle. Raised Catholic, Albert was baptized and confirmed in the parish church of St Jules in Iota, La. He attended Iota High School and excelled in both academics and sports which helped him secure a scholarship to Southeastern Louisiana University. He was the first of his family to graduate from a university, obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry.

While employed as a chemist in Texas City, Texas, he met and married his wife of 64 years, Nina Mae Holland of Levelland, Texas. Albert and Nina went on to raise a family of three children, John Dee, Jo Ann and Jana Lee. In 1963, Albert began his civil service career, first employed as a chemist and later entering technical management with the U.S. Army’s aviation oil analysis program. He spent the next 36 years helping the U.S. Army expand its oil analysis program from aviation to ground equipment, eleven of those years while residing in Mannheim, Germany, serving U.S. deployed units in Europe.

A devoted husband, loving father and grandfather. Albert is “Papa” to nine grandchildren and one great grandson whom he loved dearly. He passed away peacefully in his home in Temple, Texas surrounded by family and friends on Sunday, August 17, 2025 and will be laid to rest in Levelland, Texas on the family’s farm. Albert is survived by his wife Nina and his three adult children, nine grandchildren and one great grandchild.

In lieu of flowers, contributions in memory of Albert Dale Rasberry may be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital www.stjude.org . Isaiah 44:2.

Services with integrity, pride, and honor are under the direction of Krestridge Funeral Home. (806) 897-1111