Funeral services were held at Capps Memorial Chapel Friday for Dorothy Cryer, 86, of Fairfield who died Tuesday, February 16 at Fairfield Nursing and Rehabilitation.

Visitation was Thursday. Rev. T. Paul Kethley of First United Methodist Church of Fairfield officiated at the service. Burial followed at Dew Cemetery.

The former Dorothy Lucille Harman was born September 17, 1923 in Shiro, Texas to Frank and Mattie Harman. After graduating high school, she moved to Houston and attended secretarial school. During World War II, she worked at Camp Wallace military training facility near Galveston, and afterward at Westcott & Gries in Houston.

She married David Cryer on February 23, 1947 and they made their home in Northwest Houston. Their daughter Mary was born in 1969. During the 1970s, Mrs. Cryer ran a private child care business. The couple retired and moved to Dew in 1980.

Mrs. Cryer enjoyed gardening, was an excellent seamstress, and loved playing 42. In their later years, she and her husband traveled all over the country in their RV. She was a lifelong Methodist. She found great enjoyment in playing with her three grandchildren, who loved their “MeMe” for her childlike sense of fun.

Mrs. Cryer is survived by her daughter, Mary Cryer Awalt and husband Don of Fairfield; three grandchildren, Owen, Gracie and Meredith Awalt; two sisters-in-law, Mary Nelle Dodd of Azle and Margaret Harman of Huntsville; and several nieces and nephews, including Marilyn Fontenot of Hitchcock, Barbara Leago of Bayou Vista, Diane Calhoun of Azle; Howard Harman of Hitchcock, Randall Dodd of Washington, D.C. and Randy Bentley of Fort Worth.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 56 years, David Cryer, in 2003.

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