DOROTHY NELL PEOPLES
Dorothy Nell Futrell Peoples, 92, of Fredericksburg and formerly of Rockwall, died Thursday, May 7, 2015.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m., Tuesday, May 12, at Rest Haven Funeral Home in Rockwall, with interment following at the Rest Haven Memorial Gardens.
Arrangements were under the direction of Fredericksburg Funeral Home.
Mrs. Peoples was born Nov. 13, 1922, in Forney, the daughter of Joseph Wiley Futrell and Lois Mabel Futrell.
After attending Heath elementary schools, she graduated from Forney High School in 1939.
During WWII, she trained as a Red Cross volunteer nurse at St. Paul Hospital in Dallas and was then deployed to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where she cared for wounded soldiers. For her service, she is included in the Women in Military Service Memorial in Washington, DC.
She then began a career, in Rockwall, working for the State of Texas in the Department of Human Resources, where she retired after 30 years of service.
Over the years, she attended the Heath and Rockwall Baptist churches, and was a member of the Rockwall Historical Society.
In 2012, Mrs. Peoples moved to Fredericksburg.
Mrs. Peoples is survived by one son, Fred Peoples of Dallas; and two daughters, Suzanne Peoples of Austin, and Cindy Bennett and her husband, Marc, of Fredericks-burg.
Survivors also include two grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and one sister, Ava Norred of Katy.
Along with her parents, Mrs. Peoples was preceded in death by one son, Joseph Russell Peoples; four sisters: Emily Faye Futrell, Toinette Kidd, Amedrith Peck and Allegra Bell Chapman, and two brothers, Weldon Futrell and James Lowe Futrell.
Memorials may be made to Hill Country Memorial Hospice, the Rockwall Historical Society or to the charity of choice.