Corinne Kerbs Sadau, 91, of Joshua, Texas passed away on May 13, 2023, in Fort Worth, Texas. She was born in Shattuck, Oklahoma on June 9, 1931, to Huldrich and Emma Kerbs. She lived in various places; Higgins, Texas, Coweta, Oklahoma and White City, Kansas. Her father was a farmer and rented different farms and they moved around a lot. Her family then moved to Sacramento, California on her 14th birthday; her father got a job with Union Pacific Railroad driving heavy machinery. Corinne attended Jr. High and High School in Sacramento. She then attended one year of college at Pacific Union College and worked in Sacramento, California for the Department of Interior Region II as a secretary for four years.

In 1951 Corinne moved to D.C. to work for George Mathews, the Seventh-day Adventist Church Secretary in the Department of Education, for three years. Corinne and her future husband, Carl, were visiting mutual friends in D.C. who introduced them in 1952. They corresponded off and on for a year and then reconnected in 1953 and continued writing to each other. They saw each other twice during that time and decided that long distance did not work, so Corinne moved to Keene, Texas, and got a job as secretary to Southwestern Junior College President, Conard Rees. Carl lived in Sanger, Texas and would drive down to Keene to see Corinne and she would drive to Sanger to see him. They married on September 30, 1956 in Sacramento, California. Corinne then moved to Sanger with Carl and lived and worked on the family farm where they raised their three daughters, Lynne, Carla and Sharon.

Carl and Corinne lived in Sanger until 2012 when they decided to move to Joshua to be closer to more family as they were aging. Corinne and Carl remained married to each other for 61 years until Carl's death on December 27, 2017.

Corinne is survived by her daughters, Lynne Anger and husband, Charles of Gainesville, Texas, Carla House of Cleburne, Texas, and Sharon Wahlenmaier of Cleburne, Texas, brother, Raymond Kerbs of Jacksonville, Florida, seven grandchildren: Tonja, Denise, Hailey, Steven, Dillon, Alex and Ashton, ten great-grandchildren, and many beloved nieces, nephews and cousins.

The family will receive friends on Friday, May 19, 2023, from 5-7 PM at DeBerry Funeral Directors in Denton, Texas. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, May 20, 2023, at 11:00 AM in the chapel of DeBerry Funeral Directors. Interment will follow at Roselawn Memorial Park in Denton Texas.

Those interested in making a donation in memory of Corinne Sadau may be made to Adventist World Radio at awr.org.