Her family moved to Dallas, Texas at a young age where she grew up and raised her family also working as a seamstress.
She is preceded in death by her parents and daughter Rebecca Higginbotham- Swartz. Survived by Rachel Hanover and husband Larry, Rosalinda Lemp and husband Dan, and RubyAnn Garcia and husband Robert. She also had 8 grandchildren, 26 great grandchildren and 7 great -great grandchildren, and her beloved doxie-pin Benny Joe.