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Mary was born April 18, 1928 and went home to meet the Lord on October 15, 2018 at the age of 90 in Dallas, Texas.
Mary was born in Richardson, Texas and lived briefly in Murphy. She started high school in Mesquite and graduated as valedictorian. Armed with a scholarship, she enrolled at SMU, and embarked on a program leading to an electrical engineering degree. She discovered that college was not what she envisioned, and after the first year she found a secretarial job in the Oilwell division of US Steel. She met and married James when she was 19. He affectionately (or teasingly) called her “his little teenager”, even after she left her teen years behind. James worked for the US Post Office and was a volunteer in the Mesquite Fire Department. When the city decided to start a professional fire department, James was hired as the first fire chief. He served with distinction for 25 years.
The couple wished for children and after 13 years of marriage and losing a baby girl, they were blessed with a son, Jim. Mary left her job and enjoyed her lifelong dream of motherhood. After Jim was through high school, Mary was re-hired by the company she left 18 years earlier. She was surprised that she still knew many of her co-workers, and that it was easy to fit back into the workplace. Mary retired when the company was sold and moved its headquarters to Houston.
Mary often expressed her desire to visit Hawaii, but James had been there during WWII and had no desire to return. He suggested that she go on her own (or dared her to). She went with one of her sisters and some friends, and loved it. Mary and James enjoyed travelling together and with their friends. After James died, she continued to travel with family and friends. She particularly enjoyed cruises and went on about a dozen. Mary especially enjoyed a river cruise up the Danube from Austria into Germany. Her least favorite was a transatlantic trip – day after day of nothing but ocean!
Mary’s life was blessed. In her younger years, she enjoyed waterskiing, playing tennis, and picked up a favorite card game she would play all her life, bridge. She was an active member of Shiloh Terrace Baptist Church. She especially enjoyed her family and doted on her grandsons Christopher & Jonathan. Mary was part sweet, part ornery, a little stubborn, a lot funny (and a little punny), a little bit of a grammar nazi (we would love to be able to consult with her on some of the grammar in this obituary), but most of all she was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and friend. More important than all of that, she knew and loved Jesus and she is with Him now. All of us who knew her will miss her, but we praise God for her life.
Mary was preceded in death by her husband James Edwin Lewis Sr., sister Jane Pearcy, and her parents John and Beatrix Clark. Mary is survived by her son Jim Lewis and wife Adelina, grandson Christopher Lewis and wife Kalie, grandson Jonathan Lewis and wife Lauren, sister Ann Whitehurst, brother Henry Clark, sister Nancy Wills and husband Buford, many nieces and nephews, and her friends at Shiloh Terrace Baptist Church and The Waterford at Mesquite.
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