Annie Ruth Abron

Annie attended Macedonia High School in Jefferson, Texas, and graduated on March 25, 1956, at the age of 17. She set out to make a life for herself in Dallas, Texas in 1957, where she worked as a machine operator for Mrs. Baird’s Bakery. Her home was open to many who migrated from east Texas to seek a new life in Dallas, Texas. She later worked as a housekeeper providing childcare for a very prominent family in Dallas before reuniting with the Mrs. Baird’s Bakery family in 1979 where she worked another 23-years until the doors of the plant closed in 2002.

Surviving children: Shirley Jean Abron, Michael Abron and Regina Yvette Abron. Surviving siblings: Ora Lee Abron, Fordy Abron, Jr. (Faye), Herman Garfield Abron (Vivian), James Willard Abron (Eddie Lee), Patricia Ruby Collins (Rev. Willie), Ruth Hall Williams (Charles). Brother-in-laws Roosevelt Fagan, and Willie George (Wayne) Sloan. She was preceded in death by her sister Mattie Louise Abron (at birth), father Fordy Abron, Sr. (1993), mother, Jewel Lee Hall-Abron (2014), sisters Sherry Sue Sloan (2017), and Alice Louise Fagan (2022). She leaves a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, extended family, friends and special loved ones a lifetime of precious memories.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

2 Timothy 4:7–8 — King James Version (KJV 1900)