Belinda Bronaugh Teer

Funeral services for Belinda Bronaugh Teer, 65, of Lufkin will be held Friday, March 13, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. at First Christian Church of Lufkin with Reverend Jennifer Steele-Lantis officiating. Interment will follow at Huntington Cemetery.

Belinda Bronaugh Teer was born February 27, 1961, in Lufkin, Texas, to Louis Bronaugh and Charda (Pierce) Bronaugh, the third of four children.

She spent her younger years in Lufkin. She was a life-long member of First Christian Church. She was very active in Chi Rho and CYF, attending camp every summer. She was a local youth leader as well as an area leader in CYF. Belinda has been musical all of her life, starting with the FCC children’s choir directed by Mrs. Annabel Carter. She began her formal music education in junior high, singing in choir and playing the flute in the band. She continued with choir and band through high school - as first chair flute and piccolo - at LHS and at All-Region and All-State levels. She continued her musical journey at SFASU in Nacogdoches where she met her vocal coach, accompanist, and life-long mentor and friend, Shirley Watterston.

At SFA, Belinda majored in music/voice and specialized in opera, where she excelled. Belinda toured Europe singing with her SFA choir. She graduated from SFA in May 1984. After graduation, she did one semester of master’s work in voice. She and a fellow student decided to follow their dreams and the advice of one of their professors, so they moved to New York City in December 1984, to break into the world of professional opera.

Belinda also followed in her father and mother’s footsteps, first helping out and later as a certified optician at Bronaugh Opticians.

Belinda’s professional opera career in New York City spanned eleven years. During her professional opera career, she spent two summers in northern Italy performing with a summer opera group, and she performed in operas in NYC, around the northeast US, in Sarasota, Florida, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and Colorado. She performed with the St. Louis Opera and the Anchorage Opera.

After eleven years in the Big Apple, at a crossroads in her professional opera career, Belinda decided that she really wanted to have a family, so she decided to come home to East Texas, to Lufkin. She resumed working for Bronaugh Opticians as a certified optician, and she shared her musical abilities with First Christian Church and with the whole area.

Belinda loved the outdoors - she grew up hunting and fishing at Pine Island with her family and friends - so when she met Craig Teer one afternoon at Frank McCarty’s taxidermy shop, she met her perfect match. It didn’t take them long to figure out that they belonged together. Craig quickly became the love of her life. Belinda and Craig were married on September 19, 1998, in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, in a beautiful outdoor wedding with a mountain backdrop.

Belinda and Craig started their family pretty quickly, first with Rand in July 1999 and then Perrin in February 2002. Belinda taught music at First Christian Church Preschool and directed the music program at FCC.

A few years later Belinda transitioned to teaching at public school. She found her calling teaching the Early Childhood Special Needs program at Huntington Elementary School, where she taught for seventeen years. She pursued her masters degree in teaching autistic children at Arkansas State University, graduating in the late 2000’s. Through these years she raised her family, and with her families’ support she waged a multi-year battle with breast cancer and beat it just as she was finishing up her masters.

Belinda jumped into everything Rand and Perrin were involved in, from baseball through soccer, football, showing goats with Huntington FFA, and hunting and fishing of course. Belinda and Craig instilled in their boys their deep love of all things outdoors. They enjoyed many family vacations like a tour of the UK, canoeing in northern Arkansas, and on many hunting vacations to central/west Texas and New Mexico. As the boys got older, she and Craig enjoyed their own vacation adventures in the outdoors, in the northwestern US, and especially in Namibia, Africa. Belinda loved all animals so they assembled a menagerie around her, including her beloved Ziggy the zebra.

Fall of 2024 brought changes to their lives when Belinda was again diagnosed with cancer, and biopsy confirmed stage 4 pancreatic cancer in January 2025. She fought long and hard with her wonderful husband and entire family by her side. She had a wonderful 65th birthday with Craig driving her around to her favorite places in Pine Island, topped off by a small festive party at their home.

Survivors include her husband of 28 years, Craig Teer of Lufkin; sons, Rand Teer of Lufkin and Perrin Teer of San Antonio; mother, Charda Bronaugh of Lufkin; sister and brother-in-law, Tina and Woody Peavy of Lufkin; parents-in-law, Wilbern and Margie Teer of Lufkin; brother-in-law, Joey Teer of Lufkin and Sonia Modisette; sister-in-law, Kim Teer of Lufkin; and a number of nieces and nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her father, Louis Bronaugh; younger brother, Tim Bronaugh; older brother, Michael Bronaugh; grandparents; and other relatives.

Pallbearers will be Colby Teer, Alan Randolph, Jason Wakinyancikala, Zane Peavy, Noble Lundbergh, Will Lanigan.

Memorial contributions may be made to First Christian Church of Lufkin, 1300 S 1st Street, Suite 1, Lufkin, Texas 75901, or to the Tim Bronaugh Memorial Scholarship Fund at the SFA Alumni Association, SFA Box 6096, 300 Vista Drive, Nacogdoches, Texas 75962.

The family will welcome friends and loved ones from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Thursday evening at Carroway Funeral Home.

Memories and condolences may be added at www.carrowayfuneralhome.com.

Carroway Funeral Home, Lufkin, directors.