Mary Dalton Sawyer

Mary came from an Irish family and grew up in Lawn, Texas. She graduated from Jim Ned High School in 1964. She started working on her Nursing degree in college for a short time, but left early. Eventually, Mary moved to Dallas, Texas and started her family with the birth of her daughter. She worked for Taylor Publishing Co. for 33 years before she retired. October 8, 1988 she married Tony Sawyer. She was a loving wife and mother, who showed compassion to everyone she met. Mary loved cats; she would feed every stray cat she found. Her dream was to win the lottery and open an animal refugee. She loved to read crime novels, history books, watch animal planet and the history channel. Every day during the summer she would have her husband, Tony, bring her home a coconut kiss snow cone.Mary was a very strong-willed person with an anything goes sense of humor. She liked to play practical jokes. Mary enjoyed going to the theater, fishing, shopping, gospel music and taking road trips. During their road trips they would often stop at historical sites. She liked gardening, cooking everything, flowers and her perfumes. She had so many different bottles that you could no longer see the top of her dresser. Mary was very passionate about several foundations including; Boys Town or most children’s foundations, Kidney Foundation and Sarcoidosis Foundation. Mary is preceded in death by her mother Tommie Thompson; father Irven Thompson; mother-in-law Martha Sue Thompson. She is survived by her husband Tony Sawyer; daughter Anita Clark and her husband Henry; sister Shirley Good and her husband Kenneth; father-in-law Bobby Sawyer and his wife Shirley; sister-in-law Debra Bryan and her husband Peyton, DeAnn Miller and her husband David; brother-in-law Scott Sawyer and his wife Wyndy; numerous nieces, nephews, great nieces, great nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins, in-laws and an abundance of friends.