Dorothy Grace Huddleston

Dorothy Grace Huddleston who lived at 3009 Johnson Street Grand Prairie, Texas for 61 years was escorted into the arms of our Lord on August 13, 2013 while residing at Texas Living Care in Arlington Texas. She was 87. Born in Winnsboro, Texas on January 28, 1926 to Verdie Lee (Bert) and Laura Maude Pinson. She was the youngest of Sister Opal Fay Tolbert, brothers; Orbin Guy Pinson, Arnold Leon Pinson, Mozzell Pinson, and Plemon Choyce Pinson. After moving to Grand Prairie and then to Dallas, Grace married William Leroy (Bill) Huddleston on June 26, 1945. After 53 years of marriage Bill lost his battle to cancer in April 1998. Grace is survived by sons, Donald James Huddleston of Grand Prairie, Dennis Wayne Huddleston and wife Debra Jean Huddleston, Douglas Roy Huddleston and wife Tina Louise Huddleston of Forney Texas. Grand Children; Shawna Renee Weaver of Grand Prairie, Texas, Christopher Michael Huddleston and wife Cheryl Dawn Huddleston of Frisco, Texas, Lara Huddleston of Forney, Texas. Great grandchildren; Kristyn Nicole Huddleston of Sweetwater, Texas, Alyssa Michelle Huddleston of Frisco, Texas, Drake Weaver, Mikyla Weaver, Kyrie Weaver and Chase Weaver of Grand Prairie. Nieces, nephews and other family members and a host of Friends. Adopted in love are her close and adoring friends Sandy Simmons, of Bullard, Texas, Janis Nabors of Big Spring, Texas, Mike Johnson of Branson Missouri, Mike and Linda Vaughan of Grand Prairie, Texas. Grace Pinson was a young lady of 17 when she left Winnsboro on a bus arriving at Grand Prairie and then moving to Dallas where she worked for Sears Roebuck until working for the Federal Reserve Bank. After she met Bill Huddleston she kissed him good bye as he shipped out to serve in the Army Air Corps on board a B-17 bomber group flying out of England. She came to Grand Prairie where she joined the war effort and worked for North American. Bill was shot down in Germany and missing in action and then reported in a German prisoner of war camp. Grace waited and prayed for 15 months as the war ended and Bill was liberated and finally shipped home where they married on June 26, 1945.They were married for 53 years until his death in April 1998. In addition to her parents and husband, she was also preceded in death by siblings Choice Pinson, O.B. Pinson, Orbin Pinson, Arnold Pinson and Opal Pinson Tolbert. Grace realized her life’s ambition to be a wife and a mother as she poured her life into her family. Raising three sons left no room in her life for anything else. She spent her days as a home maker and all of the rest of her time was loving her husband and being there for every moment of the wonder years of her family. When the boys and Bill were off to school and work she held the home together. When they all came home from the school days and work week she was there, always there cheering on the accomplishments and soothing the nicks and scraps of life for her men. She was the wife and the mother. The teacher and the nurse. The encourager and even the taskmaster as the years brought all of her men older. As a woman of God she made sure her little men knew about Jesus Christ who had saved her soul so many years before and one by one all of her men were gloriously saved. Because of the wonderful exposure to the eternal things that mattered most the family worshiped at Eighth Street Baptist Church where so many wonderful days were celebrated. Love was taught in the home and she even passed on the hugger trait that so often accompanied her presence. Unafraid to say “I Love You” and bold enough to say it anywhere made her warm and caring who will be missed from a world that needs it. Grace is survived by her Eighth Street family who has all meant so much to her since she and Bill joined in 1946. This was her home church, a place the she was not only a member but family. She prayed often for her church with family and friends gathered here. Those who have passed and are in heaven we have all been witnesses of Grace’s life of faith that has now convinced us that she has gloriously changed her residence and has moved into that place she has talked about all of her life. Her heavenly family and we here are rejoicing now that she is free of the weights and ills of this world to an eternal life in a place where God will not allow such things to hamper the extreme joy of eternity there with Christ. Visitation: 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, August 18, 2013 at Guerrero-Dean Funeral Home, 500 E. Main Street, Grand Prairie, Texas, 75050. Funeral: 10:30 a.m. Monday, August 19, 2013 at Eighth Street Baptist Church, Pastor Fred Heath and Rev. Dave Bentley officiating. Burial will immediately follow at DFW National Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Dave Bentley, Mathew Woods, Pete Palacio, Mike Vaughan, Nathan Vaughan and Dennis McCormick.

Dorothy Grace Huddleston

January 28, 1926 - August 13, 2013