April 18, 1961 – September 9, 2025

Tita’s smile beamed like the sun and warmed everyone who had the pleasure to meet her. She could see the Christ in every soul, and treated people that way, no matter where they came from. She was an athlete and natural health guru, a student of astrology and higher human consciousness, and an accomplished oil painter.

She raised three wonderful boys and travelled all over the world. Then for many years she gave up most of her social life and personal time, and returned home to care for her ailing parents, Alfredo and Carol Keith Zabroky, for her beloved sister, Chrissy, and for their family home in Kerrville, Texas. She thought she would finish life there.

However, in 2019 she met Stephen Wesley Dyer, who fell crazy, mad in love with her. Between a full-time job at Fredericksburg Hospital and caring for her sick mother, Tita didn’t have any time to even have lunch or go for a walk with him, so Stevie followed her around the Kerrville HEB on Saturdays helping her shop. That’s how they initially dated.

Shortly after Carol passed away in 2020, they were married, ran away to a farm in the mountains of Alpine, Texas, had a storybook romance, and lived happily ever after.

Tita loved advising people on natural health at the Blue Water Grocery Store. “Food is Medicine!” she would always say. She quickly became a celebrated member of the Big Bend Arts Council and achieved a lifelong dream of being a professional artist, painting and selling her prints to the international tourist crowd.

One of the happiest days of Tita’s life was when she and Stevie bought Shirley’s Framing, an Alpine home and regional picture framing business. Martha’s Framing became a central gathering place for the most talented artists in the Big Bend, a hub of fascinating conversations, and their living room was a rotating gallery of some of the finest art in the world. She thrived playing her role in this amazing artist community, and she loved every one of you.

A 19-year-old-boy in a stolen car, was running from the police when he ran a stop sign in Van Horn, Texas at over a hundred miles per hour. Tita was just passing by when her Earthly life was ended. But she would forgive him. That’s just the way she rolled.

Tita is survived by her husband, Stevie; her sons, Zackary Aaron Ridge, Beau Ryan Ridge, Landon Madison Ridge; stepdaughters Sarah Elaine “Ellie” Coleman and Martha Anne Howland Dyer; sister Christina Rose Zabroky; sister Suzanne Carol (Zabroky) Stoepel and husband Gerry Stoepel; brother, Robert Zabroky, and many nieces and nephews in the USA and the Zabroky Family in Mexico. She loved all of you so very much.

A celebration of Tita’s life will be held on her birthday, April 18, 2026, in Alpine, Texas. Email Steve Dyer for more details: stevie3249@ gmail.com or call him at: 432-294-4138.

Please make donations to: BigBendArtsCouncil. org, or Beverly Hall at: Soul.org