BETTY ANNE DOCKERY

SUGAR LAND, Texas- Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Ferry Funeral Home in Nevada, Mo., for Betty Anne (Lindley) Dockery, 80, who died Thursday, June 20, 2019, at her home in Sugar Land. Burial will follow in Sheldon (Mo.) Cemetery.

Visitation will be held prior to the service, beginning at 10 a.m.

The obituary may be viewed and condolences sent online at www.ferryfuneralhome.com.

Survivors include her husband, Dean, of the home; three children, Ladeana Anne “DeAnne” Dockery, Wichita, Kan., Susan Norris and husband Peter, Houston and Stephen Dockery and wife Melissa, Wichita, Kan. and three grandchildren, Amy Norris and husband Josh Lichtenstein, Samantha Dockery and Joshua Soutiere.

She was preceded in death by three brothers, Howard, Clinton and Bob Lindley and two sisters, Beth Lamphier and Lurline Ford.

Mrs. Dockery was born Feb. 20, 1939, in Sheldon, Mo., to Warren and Hazle (Devenny) Lindley. She married Calvin Dean Dockery in 1959 and together they celebrated 60 years together.

She was reared in Sheldon and graduated from Sheldon High School as Valedictorian for the Class of 1957. Later in life she lived in many exotic places such as England, Singapore, Korea and China. She and her husband retired to the Houston area in 1999. She loved art, travel and the Houston Rockets basketball team.