Funeral services for Doris Ledbetter, 75, of Nacogdoches and formerly of Long Beach, CA and San Augustine/Toledo Bend, will be at 10:00 am Wednesday, December 1, 2010, at First United Methodist Church, 201 E. with Rev. Meredith Wende officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Park in Nacogdoches.
Visitation will be Tuesday, November 30, 2010, from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm at Cason Monk-Metcalf.
Mrs. Ledbetter died Saturday, November 27, 2010 at Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital after an extended illness with cancer of the lung. She was born July 3, 1935, to Loy Neal and Marie Harris Neal. In 1954 she graduated with honors from Port Arthur College. She was married in 1955 to John Majneric, who died in 1964. In 1967 she married Jack Ledbetter, who subsequently adopted her four children. Prior to her marriage she had become West Coast Secretary to D.K. Ludwig, the richest man in the world at that time, and administrative assistant to the president of the American Hawaiian Land Company, developers of the city of Westlake in Ventura County, CA. She ended her professional career as Corporate Secretary of Plastolite, a national manufacturer of electric signs. As a resident of Nacogdoches, Doris and her husband were active supporters of Stephen F. Austin State University and the Nacogdoches community, including the funding of the main floor gallery of the Cole Art Gallery.
Survivors include her husband and soul mate, Jack Ledbetter; daughter, Lisa Vella of Scottsdale, Arizona; step-daughters, Mary Ledbetter of Chatsworth, California and Peggy Ledbetter of Orlando, Florida; sons, Mark Ledbetter of Pasadena, California, Jack Ledbetter, Jr. of Garden Grove, California and Michael Ledbetter of Laguna Niguel, California; sisters, Wilma Richards of San Augustine, Texas and Joyce Brown of Milam, Texas; numerous grandchildren and a great-grandson.
She was preceded in death by her father, mother and brother Joe Neal.
Pallbearers will be Norman Armitage, Frank Brister, Ed Cole, Ron Johnson, William Richards and Bill Teague.
Condolences may be offered at www.casonmonk-metcalf.com
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