Lucía Marquez-Weber
Executive Director
Lucía grew up in San Antonio and married into a Fredericksburg family that has run a peach orchard since the 1920s. She has led Pedernales House since 2015 and still closes the parlor most Friday nights.
Our people
Meet our team
Nurses, caregivers and leaders who stay, and who know every resident by name.
Our team
Days, evenings and the night shift
Denise Ford, RN
Director of Nursing
Denise spent fourteen years in hospital cardiac care in Austin. She writes every service plan and keeps her cell phone on for the night shift.
Dr. Daniel Cho, MD
Medical Director
An internist in Fredericksburg for twenty years, Dr. Cho sees residents in their apartments twice a month.
Luke Hartmann, LVN
Night Shift Supervisor
Luke has run the overnight shift for nine years. He knows who reads until midnight, who wants the hall light on and who needs a second blanket by three.
Ana Treviño, LVN
Wellness Nurse
Ana takes blood pressures, runs the flu clinic and is the reason the diabetic residents still get a slice of cobbler, carefully counted.
Chef Rafael Durán
Culinary Director
Rafael cooked on Main Street for a decade. He makes his own sausage with a butcher in town and judges the county peach cobbler contest every June.
Tamara Hines
Life Enrichment Director
Tamara books the music nights, borrows the telescope and has talked three church choirs into coming back every year.
The Rev. Otis Freeman
Chaplain
A retired Lutheran pastor who leads Sunday vespers and sits with anyone who would like company, whatever they believe.
Gwen Anders
Admissions Director
Gwen gives the evening tours, answers the money questions plainly and helps families plan the move.
Karin Bauer
Business Office Manager
Karin handles billing, long-term care insurance claims and VA paperwork, in English or German.
Sample family reviews
What families tell us
After Dad died, Mom dreaded the nights most. Now she calls me at nine to tell me who played and what they ate. She sounds like herself again.
Luke checks on Father at two and at four. He does it so quietly Father has never once woken up, and he tells me every morning how the night went.
I played the accordion at dances in Comfort for fifty years. I thought that was over. Tuesday nights, it isn't.
The evening tour sold us. We walked in at seven and the whole parlor was singing 'Waltz Across Texas.' My mother sat down and joined in.
They gave us the price in writing at the first visit, care level and all. I didn't have to ask twice.
I lay on a blanket on the back lawn and saw Saturn through a telescope. I am eighty-eight years old.
Karin filed every page of the VA Aid and Attendance claim for my father. It came through in four months.
Rafael makes red cabbage the way my grandmother did. Mother cried the first Thursday.
We moved Dad from Houston. Gwen had movers, a floor plan and his recliner placed before we pulled in.
My husband and I share a one-bedroom. He needs help now and I don't, and nobody makes either of us feel like a patient.
When Mom was dying, the night staff took turns sitting with her so I could sleep. I will never forget that kindness.
Stay for supper. Stay for the first song.
Call or text Gwen to set an evening tour, Thursday through Saturday at seven.