Mary Francis Waldrop, 71 years old, passed away on Friday, May 23, 2014, in San Angelo Community Medical Center. Mary loved fishing, swimming and spending quality time with her family. She was the best "Gamma" her grandchildren could ever want. She will be missed and loved by all her family. Mary was preceded in death by her husband of 42 years, Detley C. Waldrop; her son, Daniel Nichols; and grandson Robert Kielpinski. She is survived by three daughters, Elizabeth Kidd, Kathy Crosby and Sarah Nichols; a daughter-in-law, Patricia Kielpinski; three sisters, Pearline Moore of Henrietta, Texas, Linda Patterson of Bellevue, Texas, and Patricia; and two brothers, Billy Ray Sanders of Broomfield, Colorado, and Cecil Wayne Sanders of Henrietta, Texas. Mary is also survived by three grandchildren, Daniel and Patricia Kielpinski and Noah and Gage Smith; and five great-grandchildren, Aiden, Cody and Camden Kielpinski, Michael Adams and Amethyst Carroll. Services will be private. Funeral arrangements were handled by Johnson's Funeral Home of San Angelo. 

An angel left this earth on Sunday, May 25, 2014, to heaven. She was born Jan. 5, 1952, as Deborah Jayne Simpson in San Angelo, Texas. She attended Lake View High School and graduated with the Class of 1969. She was employed by the Education Service Region XV as the computer terminal supervisor. She is survived by her son and his wife, Breck and Megan Hale of Wichita Falls, Texas; her husband, David Breck Hale of San Angelo; and her mother Gevena Simpson, also of San Angelo. We thank the Lord for allowing us to share our lives with her. If you wish to make contributions make them to multiple sclerosis research or an animal rescue organization.