Mollie Grote

Mollie Elisabeth (Featherston) Grote ended her two and half year battle with cancer peacefully on December 3, 2025 surrounded by her family. Mollie was born June 24, 1984 to parents Robert and Deborah Featherston in Shreveport, Louisiana.

In fourth grade she moved to Brenham, Texas where she would go on to graduate from Brenham High School and then Texas State University where she was a member of Delta Gamma Fraternity. On June 13, 2009 she and her husband, William, were married at First Baptist Church in Brenham. She gave William the two greatest gifts of his life in their sons, Alexander in 2012 and Cullen in 2015.

Mollie's calling was to be a teacher, first as an English Language Arts teacher and then after obtaining her Masters from LSU - Shreveport, as a dyslexia intervention specialist. While working at Alton Elementary she loved to be able to take her boys to school with her. Mollie loved her work, and she loved seeing her former students around town, at school functions or the grocery store. She loved the summer, being at the beach, and just lounging on her back patio in the sun with a book and in her words a "crispy" Coke.

Mollie loved Christmas, it was her favorite season and as the years went by the tree went up earlier every year. But mostly, Mollie loved her boys, William, Alex and Cullen. Through two plus years of treatment and surgery, Mollie never lost her smile and never gave up. Mollie will be buried with the ashes of her beloved Boston terrier, Bailey, who was inseparable from Mollie while she was here.

Mollie is survived by her husband and sons, her parents, Robert and Debbie, her brother Stuart Featherston and special friend, Lauren Price; her brother and sister-in law Kyle and Jill Featherston and their daughters Rory and Ainsley, her mother-in-law Judy Grote and her sister-in-law and brother-in-law Amanda and Chad Dismukes and their daughters Audrey and Callie. She is preceded in death by her grandparents Bruce and Ann Johnson, Jean Featherston, Glenn Featherston as well as her father-in-law Alex Grote.

Pallbearers for Mollie will be Michael Beaver, Beau Beaver, Robert Ruemke, Aaron Brack, Chad Dismukes, Josh Howard, Ryan Mooney and Michael Ogg. Honorary pallbearers will be her uncles, Danny Beaver, Chuck Bigelow and Herman Speer as well as all of her former students. It would also be remiss not to mention the love and support of her three aunts during this time, Candace Beaver, Barbara Bigelow and especially Pam Speer whose optimism saw Mo through some hard days.

Mollie lived a life full of color and in honor of that the family is requesting that attendees wear bright colors and no formal attire to celebrate her life. Her family would like to express their gratitude to the doctors and nurses at MD Anderson Cancer Center and Hospice Brazos Valley for their care.

A benefit account has been established at Brenham National Bank to help with the costs of her care and in lieu of memorials Mollie has asked that if you have school age children you find their teachers' Amazon Wish List and purchase items from there. If you feel compelled to give a memorial they can be given to Hospice Brazos Valley or St. John's Lutheran Church of Prairie Hill.

Visitation with the family will be from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Sunday, December 7, 2025 at Memorial Oaks Chapel.

The funeral service will be 3:00 p.m. Monday, December 8, 2025 at St. John's Lutheran Church of Prairie Hill with Pastor Norm Sulaica and Pastor Troy Sikes officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.