Funeral: 1 p.m. Saturday at Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel. Interment: Shannon Rose Hill Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday.
Memorials: Mary loved flowers; all the colors were something she really enjoyed. However, she did have a favorite charity -- childcareworld.org -- for those who would prefer a gift.
Mary was born to Emma May Larson and Lesley Newton on Nov. 28, 1925, in Little Rock, Ark. As an infant and young girl she traveled extensively throughout the United States as well as some foreign countries, namely Cuba (her favorite), to support her father's job.
She, her young sister Emma Louise and her mother settled in Norwalk, Calif., with Mary's grandmother, and that's where she lived until she married and gave birth to three baby girls. She moved to a suburb of Los Angeles to raise her girls. Later on in her life, she moved to Laguna Niguel, one of the most beautiful beach areas of California. There she met the love of her life, Frank DeFoe. They married and should have lived happily ever after, but Frank became ill and died. Later her granddaughter, Lue Kraltchev, went with her husband, Nicholay, to visit. That's when the big move happened. The two packed up Mary's belongings and moved her lock, stock and barrel to Texas. She grew to love Texas and in her last years, she seemed to be happy and content. She had a close relationship with God, which carried her through the bad times as well as the good.
Mary was preceded in death by her sister, Emma Louise; father, Lesley; mother, Emma May; daughter, Diane Carol; and beloved husband, Frank.
Survivors: Daughters, Linda Loraine Potts and Joan Lee Roper; Mary's grandchildren, Lisa Louise and husband, James, Laurie "Lue" Ann and husband, Nickolay, James Edward and wife, Sylvia, and Tina Marie; great-grandchildren, Erin Christen and husband, Andres, Kaytlin Oliva, Tailynn Rose, Nicholas, DJ and Haley; and son-in-law, Gerald "Jerry."
Arrangements under the direction of Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery, Fort Worth, TX.
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