Mary Sanders

Mary Beth Sanders, 97, died peacefully on September 15, 2018 at Two Dot Ranch, Mountain Home, Texas. \r\n\r\nMary Beth was born May 19, 1921 in Bowie, Texas, one of the six Prince Sisters. She married her Bowie High School sweetheart, Hamel Sanders on February 8, 1941 who proceeded her in death December 3, 2010.\r\n\r\nBeth was a child of the depression and a wife and mother during World War II. She was a housewife and ran her home with loving efficiency until her three children finished school and she was able to travel with her husband while he worked.\r\n\r\nMary Beth and Hamel enjoyed travel and entertaining and made many friends on their trips around the country. Their greatest joy was in bringing happiness to others through socializing and playing games. She was particularly good at bridge and dominoes and enjoyed playing and traveling with friends and family her entire life.\r\n\r\nA few years after her husband passed away she moved to Kerrville and lived at Brookdale Senior Living before moving to the Two Dot Ranch to live with her daughter and son-in-law.\r\n\r\nMary Beth is preceded in death by her five sisters, a brother and grandson Kenneth Franks. \r\n\r\nBeth is survived by: her children Sandra Beth Sadler and her husband Byron, Mountain Home, Texas, Captain Robert Hamel Sanders, Port Mansfield, Texas, and Kay Louise Nelson and her husband Donald, Dallas, Texas, Her brother Bill Prince, Four Grandchildren, eight great-Grandchildren, and four great-great-Grandchildren and numerous loved nieces and nephews.\r\n \r\nThe family wishes to express their thanks for the tender, loving care provided by Stephani Thorp, Myrtle Jennings and Gloria Gonzales. \r\n\r\nFamily and friends will be welcome at a celebration of Mary Beth's life at 3:30pm at the Two Dot Ranch in Mountain Home Texas, Sunday, September 23, 2018.\r\n\r\nServices and burial will be in Bowie, Texas on Saturday November 3, 2018. \r\n\r\nIn lieu of flowers memorials may be given to the Alzheimer's Association or Combat Marine Outdoors.