Cliftine Van Gilder Dwyer, age 93 of Seguin, Texas, passed away on February 21, 2019.  Visitation will be held Wednesday, February 27, 2019 from 5 -7 p.m. at Tres Hewell Mortuary. Funeral service will be held Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 2 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Carl McCauley officiating. Interment will follow at San Geronimo Cemetery. Cliftine was born July 30, 1925 in San Antonio to Clifford Chase Van Gilder and Corinne Flowers Vaughan. She lived in Seguin most her life, her parents having managed the AUMONT HOTEL and then purchased and operated the PLAZA HOTEL in downtown Seguin. Cliftine said Central Park was her front yard growing up in the PLAZA from age 8 to 18. She worked at the air base in Hondo after graduation from Seguin High during World War II and then returned to Seguin. She ultimately met and married William H. Dwyer in 1947 and had three boys: MICHAEL (1949), ROBIN (1952), & PATRICK (1959). "Billy" was called back into the air force for KOREA and they lived in Georgia where he attended flight training. They eventually settled at her lifelong home on Lake Placid in 1953. Her husband died of cancer in 1961 and Cliftine was then raising three boys 11, 8 and 2 alone. She never remarried.

She began working at KWED radio as an on air personality on the "FOR THE LADIES" program every morning. She was then recruited to become Nursing Home Administrator and along with Beth and Wayne Lange and Norma and Harold Haines purchased and expanded the SEGUIN CONVALESCENT HOME which she ran successfully for almost twenty years.

She was always involved in Seguin's civic life having been instrumental in starting the Guadalupe County Republican Women along with Elle Selig, Marjorie Donegan and many others who worked hard to establish a conservative alternative to the then existing Democrat Party control of all Texas elective offices. She was a member of the Seguin Conservation Society, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, the Seguin Chamber of Commerce where she helped begin FREEDOM FIESTA in the late sixties. When asked where she was from on her many travels her response was always "Seguin, Texas, Garden Spot of the World" and "Seguin God's Gift to Texas"

Her Vaughan/McKenzie family dates back to before the Texas revolution, a fact of which she never boasted but of which she was quite proud.

She lived on beloved Lake Placid until summer of 2018 when she rehab from a fall and resided in Argent Court until her unexpected death on Thursday February 21, 2019.

She was preceded in death by her parents; Aunt Esther Campbell, cousin Roy B. Campbell, Jr., Husband William Henry Dwyer, granddaughter Corinne Diane Dwyer and good friend Jim Bunt.

Cliftine is survived by her three children Dr. Michael S. Dwyer and wife Margaret of The Woodlands, Robin V. Dwyer and wife Dottsy of Seguin and Patrick Dwyer and wife Robin of Austin; Six grandchildren William Dwyer and wife Cecily, Spencer Dwyer, Natalie Dwyer Tyndall and husband Andrew, and Iris Dwyer, Ashley Ludwig-Cedars of Houston and Paul Shute of Tomball; five great grandchildren Caylee and Caleb Dwyer, Gavin, Sienna, and Reid Ludwig-Cedars.

Pallbearers will be William Dwyer, Spencer Dwyer, Chuck Dwyer, Dr. Stephen Dwyer, Tim Dwyer, Jesse Roy Hart, Dr. Kevin Dwyer and Brian Dwyer.

Memorial contributions may be made to the First Presbyterian Church of Seguin or the Seguin Conservation Society.

HER SURVIVING SONS WERE BLESSED TO HAVE A STRONG WOMAN RAISE AND SUPPORT THEM THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES. WE WILL MISS HER PRESENCE IN OUR LIVES AND PRAY THAT GOD WILL BLESS HER FINAL REST AND REUNION WITH ALL HER MANY FRIENDS AND FAMILY. REST IN PEACE MAMA!