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Wednesday, March 3, 2021 Billie Ferguson Franke of Buda, Texas, passed away peacefully in Austin, Texas on Friday, February 26, 2021 at the age of 83 years and two days. She was one of the very few  remaining  “old timers” born in Buda.  Her parents were Bruce and Mary Abney Ferguson. Bruce served as Mayor of Buda for some 23 years. His mother Mary Jane Ferguson, nee Lawson, came to Texas with her parents as a young girl in a covered wagon in the late 1800’s, settling in the Buda area. Billie’s Great Grandfather, McKinney Lawson who also came to the Buda area of Hays County as an e...