She worked as a telephone operator in Phoenix, Arizona and as a drug store clerk in Texas City, Texas.
Mary loved clothes, shoes and jewelry and modeled for the newspaper and Union Carbide.
Mary was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Roy Earsel Welch, her daughter Laura Ellen Welch Davis and her brother Bill Guiles
Mary was survived by her husband, Norman Bain, her sister, Marlene Perow, grandchildren Jordan Davis, Matthew Davis, Jake Davis, Sarah Bain and Benjamin Bain, and great grandchildren Raleigh Matthew Davis, Radley James Davis, Jameson Danger Davis, Johnny Maverick Davis, and Brileigh Bain as well as many nieces and nephews.
