Dorothy Dalton

Dorothy Ann Dalton (Dotti) passed away on Monday, January 28, 2019 in Kerrville, TX. She was born on June 15, 1934 in Houston, TX to Dorothy Mae McCreery and Edgar Preston Padon.\r\n\r\nDotti graduated from Austin High in Houston in 1952. She began working for the Prudential Insurance Company, and soon met the love of her life, Nicholas (Nick) McCall Dalton. They married in 1955.\r\n\r\nAfter her husband Nick graduated from Rice Institute in 1957, they moved to Dallas, TX. Nick began a 42 year career as an electrical engineer at Chance Vought Aircraft (LTV, etc.) and Dotti was a devoted wife to Nick and a devoted mother to their daughter Diana, who was born in 1959. The family transferred to Utica, Michigan in 1963, and after living there five years they returned to live in Irving, TX for the next 44 years.\r\n\r\nDotti was a very caring and sweet person. She was also an excellent seamstress and created an entire wardrobe for her daughter's Barbie doll, including "mink" stoles made from Angora.\r\n\r\nDotti attended Northlake College in Irving, taking a variety of classes, and even taught word processing there. She also attained a real estate license, and did a variety of charity and volunteer work, including Irving Community Hospital, and the Stewpot Kitchen of First Presbyterian Church in Dallas.\r\n\r\nDotti and Nick began visiting Kerrville in the 1980s. After Nick's retirement in 1999, they found land just outside Kerrville and built a small home there. They would visit Kerrville often to enjoy the scenery and atmosphere, and gradually added on to the home and land and moved to Kerrville permanently in 2012. They have made several dear friends in Kerrville, including Mark and Linda Stone and the late Joe and Jane Russell.\r\n\r\nDotti was preceded in death by her parents and her older sister Joyce, who passed away as a teenager. She is survived by her husband Nick, their daughter Diana Wehrmann and her husband James Wehrmann, and by her granddaughter Amanda Wehrmann. She is also survived by her younger sister, Barbara Anderson, Barbara's husband Mike Anderson and their family. She also will be missed by her dear friend Suzanne Addison of Dallas.\r\n\r\nDotti was a devout Christian all her life. She was raised as a Baptist and became Presbyterian after she married. She was an active member of Woodhaven Presbyterian Church in Irving, having many friends there, and later joined First Presbyterian Church in Kerrville. \r\n\r\nDotti's funeral service will be held at 10 AM, Tuesday, February 5, 2019 in Schreiner Chapel at First Presbyterian Church, officiated by Rev. Dr. Rob Lohmeyer followed by an entombment at Garden of Memories in Kerrville.\r\n\r\n