Mary Anne Mallory

VISITATION: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 26 at Moore Funeral Home.

GRAVESIDE SERVICE: 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, November 27 at Moore Memorial Gardens.

Mary Anne was born June 18, 1948 at Florence Nightingale Hospital in Dallas, Texas, to Elvis Forace Johnson, Sr and Eunice Dorothy Kemp Johnson. After a couple of hit and misses, Mary Anne married her rest of her life partner, Dixie (Moose) Mallory in 1983.

Mary Anne had a smile of sunshine. She was a loving mother, doting Nana and devoted friend to all that knew and loved her. She was fondly called Mert by her nieces and nephews and only they know why they chose that name! Mary Anne attended Sam Houston High School in Arlington, Texas. Not many of her friends and relatives knew that she was an accomplished artist and finished four beautiful oil paintings on canvas before she became ill in 2013. She loved to go dancing to country music and even danced while in her wheelchair in later years.

SURVIVORS: Mary Anne is survived by her husband of 36 years, Dixie Sidney (Moose) Mallory of Mansfield, Texas; daughters Anna Marie Lanier and Sherie Lee Bracken, both of Alvarado, Texas; sisters Tina Martin of Blum, Texas; Ellen Carter and husband Ron of Arlington, Texas; brothers, Elvis F. Johnson, Jr and wife Heather of Venus, Texas; and Roy Allen Johnson and wife Cam of Venus Texas; grandchildren Philip John Bracken, April Owens, Mary Lee, Lauren Lee, Mikel Lanier, Jr., Lisa Lanier Daniels and Jessie Lanier Summerville; 14 great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her infant daughter Dee Dee; parents Elvis and Eunice Johnson; grandparents, Arvel Mack and Jessie Lee Ritter Johnson of Lake Lavon, Texas; Philip John and Blanche Ellen Fisher Kemp of London, England; her brother Philip Arvel Johnson of Arlington, Texas and several Aunts and Uncles. Online condolences may be made by visiting https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/arlington-tx/mary-mallory-8937592/add-memory.