The Proeger Family · The couple at the centre

Kristin M. Caffey Proeger

Wife of the subject · the other half of this record

Kristin Marie Proeger
Family photograph, 2020s

Kristin M. Caffey Proeger

TexasLiving

Wife of the subject · the other half of this record

Born
8 April 1975
Parents
Thomas Alan Caffey
Married
Earl Proeger
Sources
5
Images
6

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1975
Born 8 April 1975 in Austin, Texas, to Thomas Alan Caffey and Clare LaVonne Walker
the Texas Birth Index names both parents S126, and the family gives the city S24. Confirmed
Her ancestry is charted at Kristin's ancestors and run to full depth in the deep lines. Nothing on this card is new to the page: every statement on it is drawn from the records already cited above.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Siblings1972
Her brother is Bradley Neal Caffey (b. 1972), the same two parents on the same state index three years earlier S126. They appear together as grandchildren in Dorothy Walker's 2022 obituary S36. No third child is evidenced.
Marriage1994
Married Earl Proeger in a ceremony on Guam, 1994; the marriage was registered in Travis County, Texas (Texas Marriage Index, 25 Jun 1994) S2, their longtime home, because Texas allowed them to marry by affirmation rather than oath
a Quaker scruple Guam made no accommodation for (Earl Proeger’s account, 22 Sep 2026 S24).
Parents1994
Maiden name Caffey, established from the Travis County marriage record of 1994 S2
the same record that names Earl. Confirmed
Parents1946
Her father was Thomas Alan Caffey (1946–2016) of Austin, whose obituary names "his daughter Kristin Proeger and her husband Earl of Austin" S31. Her mother is Clare La Vonne Walker, living S24.
Children2026
Three children with Earl
Maia, and the twins Evelyn and Axel. Their names are all this page publishes about them: no dates, no birth years, no ages, no schools, no places. Earl's rule of 21 September 2026 lets a minor be named and nothing more, and that is exactly what is done here.

Photos & documents 3 photos · 3 documents

Photos (3)
Kristin Marie Proeger
Kristin Marie Proeger 2020s Confirmed Download · → card
C.J. — sister of LaVonne Danielson
C.J. — sister of LaVonne Danielson 2020s Confirmed Download · → card
LaVonne Danielson
LaVonne Danielson c. 2020s Confirmed Download · → card
Documents (3)

Documents · 3 page images all documents

Retrieved from the UNT Libraries' Portal to Texas History, or — for the University of Texas Cactus yearbooks — from Texas ScholarWorks. Each thumbnail opens the full page scan, which can also be downloaded. The quoted text is the OCR that ships with the scan, copied verbatim; the page image is the authority.

Page 91 of Anderson High School yearbook, Austin, Texas, 1990

Anderson High School yearbook, Austin, Texas, 1990 — page 91

Yearbook · 1990 · page image 0095 of 224 — the page itself is printed 91 ("Unique Classes 91" in the lower-right rule)

Carey Butts (9) Letricia Bynoe (11) Izzie Cabin (10) **Kristin Caffey (9)** Brian Cain (11) Carrie Callaway (11) Stacey Callison (10) Fred Camacho (10) Melanie Camacho (10) Keith Cansler (9) Demetria Cantu (9) James Cantu (9) Juan Cardenas (9) Holly Carfer (9)

Confirmed because Ancestry's index for this image names "Kristin Caffey", Anderson High School, Austin, Texas, 1990, and the page itself prints "Kristin Caffey (9)" in the underclass portrait key on the right-hand rail — name, school, city and year all match the tree record. This was Kristin's one open (unaccepted) hint; it was viewed read-only and left open.. Corroborating names on the same page, as the OCR spells them: Anderson (sweatshirt lettering in the adjacent portrait); Unique Classes; M'Risa Marcus; Eve Clark; Amye Benson (12); Hunter Owen (10).

Page 193 of Anderson High School yearbook, Austin, Texas, 1990

Anderson High School yearbook, Austin, Texas, 1990 — page 193

Yearbook · 1990 · page image 0197 of 224 — the page itself is printed 193 ("Index/Group Pictures 193" in the lower-right rule)

Cabin, Tiffany M (10) 91, 193 Caffey, Bradley N "Brad" (12) 13, 14, 38, 50, 90, 193, 212 Caffey, Kristin (9) 50, 91, 193 Cain, Brian T (11) 91 Callaway, Carrie A (11) 91, 105 Callison, Stacey (10) 26, 76, 91, 152 fifth row: Angie Beltran, Brandon Ginsburg, Tommy Hollahan, Katie Evans, Jeff Halkin, Thursten Simonsen, Melanie Oltmann, Alison Aldridge, Karl …

Confirmed because This is the volume's back-of-book name index. It prints "Caffey, Kristin (9) 50, 91, 193" directly under "Caffey, Bradley N 'Brad' (12) 13, 14, 38, 50, 90, 193, 212", and the Marching Band group caption on the same page names "Kristin Caffey" in the fifth row. Ancestry's index for this image returns both Kristin Caffey and Brad Caffey, Anderson High School, Austin, Texas, 1990. Already an accepted hint on Kristin's profile; viewed read-only.. Corroborating names on the same page, as the OCR spells them: Marching Band; Belles; Anderson; Index/Group Pictures; Kelley C Carson; Demetria Cantu.

Page 106 of Anderson High School yearbook, Austin, Texas, 1993

Anderson High School yearbook, Austin, Texas, 1993 — page 106

Yearbook · 1993 · page image 0110 — the page itself is printed 106 (the folio reads "106 SENIORS '93")

Carey Elizabeth Butts **Kristin Marie Caffey** Keith Allen Cansler Demetria Celina Cantu

Confirmed because The page is the *1993 Seniors of Anderson* class group photograph, and its name roll prints "Kristin Marie Caffey" in full — given name, middle name and surname all matching the tree record — at Anderson High School, Austin, Texas, in her graduating year. Ancestry indexes the same record as "Kristin Marie Caffey", Anderson High School, Austin, Texas, 1993. Already an accepted hint on Kristin's profile; viewed read-only.. Corroborating names on the same page, as the OCR spells them: 1993 Seniors of Anderson; SENIORS '93 banner; ANDERSON SENIORS sweatshirts; Megan Camille Bergquist; Demetria Celina Cantu.

Kristin M. Caffey Proeger · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

5 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S2Texas Marriage Index and Washington State Archives, republished verbatim at SortedByName.com — sortedbyname.com/letter_p/proeger/index_2.html and /index_1.html. Also the source for the Social Security NUMIDENT extracts and the immigration arrival index.
  2. S24Family testimony — Earl Proeger, September 2026. Stated directly by the family and recorded on their word. Covers: the Silva maiden name and William Harry Proeger as his father's father (both of which record research had already reached independently); and, on Kristin's side, her father Thomas Caffey — raised in Austin, University of Texas, died at Austin — and her mother Lavonne Walker, Walker being her maiden name, born at Fort Worth, Tarrant County. Not a document. No record has been retrieved for any of the Caffey or Walker statements, no dates were supplied for either person, and none has been estimated. Carried throughout as Family testimony, never as Confirmed. Superseded in part on 13 September 2026: the Thomas Caffey statements are now carried on records instead — see S31–S35. The Lavonne Walker statements still rest on this source alone. Extended 17 September 2026: the family further states that she was born Walker, married a Caffey and divorced, then married a Danielson who has since died — which is why her photographs are captioned Danielson. It matches the Caffey obituary's "former wife, LaVonne Danielson" [S31] independently. Her present surname and her widowhood rest on this testimony alone; the second husband's given name, and every date and place attached to that marriage, were not supplied and are not published. Extended 22 September 2026 (eyewitness): Earl was present at the birth of his half-brother John Jacob “Jacob” Proeger, born 25 May 1994 on the island of Guam to William Leonard Proeger and Briana Castro Proeger; Earl states the birth was one month before his own wedding ceremony with Kristin, which was also held on Guam (the marriage itself was registered in Travis County; see the next entry). No birth record has been retrieved. Extended 22 September 2026 (Earl’s own account of his marriage): “Kristin and I married on Guam in a ceremony but registered our marriage in Travis County when we visited Austin, as that had been our home for many years, and we could marry without swearing, a scruple we held as Quakers and which Guam had no accommodation for.” The only date held is the Travis County registration, 25 June 1994, from the Texas Marriage Index [S2]; the date of the Guam ceremony was not supplied and is not published.
  3. S31Obituary, Thomas Alan Caffey, Austin American-Statesman, published 8–14 January 2017; Legacy.com id 17338018. Names his parents ("born on March 7th, 1946, to Lucille and Thomas Caffey"), his sisters, and — decisively for this record — "his daughter Kristin Proeger and her husband Earl of Austin." Retrieved in a browser; a plain fetch is blocked. Its guest book also carries a family friend's "T.W. and Lucille," which is corroboration, not kinship: no record makes that family related.
  4. S36Obituary of Dorothy LaVonne Peters Walker (12 February 1926 – 13 August 2022), Greenwood Funeral Home, Fort Worth — greenwoodfuneralhomes.com; the same text transcribed on FindAGrave memorial 242876604, Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth. Family-written. It names her husband "Melvin Walker," her parents "Benjamin 'Pete' and Selma Peters," her three daughters, her Chicago birth and Sioux Falls upbringing, the Norway trips, and — decisively — "Kristin (Earl) Proeger of Austin, TX" among her grandchildren. ⚠️ Only the funeral home's own copy carries the "ROUND ROCK" dateline; the FindAGrave transcription drops it. The funeral home's page is published in full in the Documents grid (Earl's per-item exception, 25 Sep 2026).
  5. S126Bradley Neal Caffey — Texas birth index, 23 February 1972, Travis County. Texas, U.S., Birth Index, 1903–1997, Ancestry collection 8781, record 11286050, index image TXBTH_1972_000216a. Read 21 September 2026. Father Thomas Alan Caffey; mother Clare LaVonne Walker. The record that makes him Kristin's full brother rather than a surname match. A state birth index naming both parents, and they are the same two parents the same index gives for Kristin in 1975 (image TXBTH_1975_000216e). Corroborated independently by the 2022 Walker obituary [S36], which lists Brad and Kristin in one sentence as grandchildren of the same woman. ⚠ No evidence of a third child. Across the whole Caffey hint cluster and the full obituary, only these two appear as children of this couple — that is absence of evidence from two sources that each had reason to name everyone, and is graded Probable, not Confirmed.

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