Dorothy May Shepard Daniels

Dorothy May Shepard Daniels went to be with her Lord on Thursday, August 20th, 2020.
She was known by family and friends as DD.
DD was born in her grandparents’ home, Frank and Julia Dodson in Mills County, Texas on May 30, 1921. When she was two, she burned her feet severely and doctors told her she would never walk. However, DD was never one to be predictable, especially when facing a big challenge. She learned how to walk within 2 years. She and her younger sister, Mary began school together in 1927 and due to moving around for her parents’ work, they attended 12 different schools. They graduated high school in Priddy, TX. Dorothy entered Tarleton Agricultural college in Stephenville in 1939. It was there where she met Grady Daniels and they married in February 1940. They had their first daughter, Mary Beth in Houston in July of 1941. While living in El Paso, Grady was drafted into the Army for WWII and fought in the War in the Pacific. While in the Army, DD taught the third grade in a border school with all Mexican children. When Grady came out of the Army, they faced another challenge – finding a home. At the time, they were renting a chicken house for shelter. DD made up her mind and put $10 down on a lot and decided they would build their own house by hand. They bought a tool that made cement bricks and used it to make three dozen bricks a day. Using that tool, they built their first home, 36 cement bricks at a time. Together, they built what they needed, including septic tank and replumbed the house for propane because natural gas was not available outside the city limits. While in El Paso, DD was a bookkeeper and was business manager for El Paso High School.
DD and Grady have always been able to build and create just about anything they needed. They moved back to Stephenville where their second daughter, Linda was born. DD loved to garden, had the gift of a green thumb and loved to grow flowers and vegetables wherever there was a spot in the yard. After working at a car dealership, DD went back to school to get licensed to work for the State Welfare Department. She worked in many departments, Child Welfare, Day Care Supervision and for most of her 28 years there, she worked in Long Term Care with Nursing Home Activity Directors.

DD was preceded in death by Pops, her husband Grady Edgar Daniels, her parents, Ruth Estelle and David Shepard, her sister Mary Canady, brothers Arthur and David Shepard a grandson, Tommy Bridges and sons in law, Truman Bridges and Alvie Allison. She is survived by her daughters Mary Beth Bridges and Linda Allison, grandchildren Jimmy and Stacy Bridges, Becky (Bridges) and Kevin Dinnin, Adrienne (Allison) and Jason Ingram, Stacia (Allison) and Scott Miller and David and Mandy Allison, and 12 great grandchildren. A burial service will be held at 3 p.m. August 27th at Holly Hills Memorial Park in Granbury, Tex.