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Mary Ellen Duncan
1929 - 2025
BORN
1929
DIED
2025
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Mary Duncan Obituary
Mary was born Sept. 18, 1929 in Elbert, to Walter J. and Ella Mae McCarson Timmons. She had worked as Credit Manager for Dillard's Department Stores in Fort Worth and Phoenix, Arizona for many years.
She was a Baptist and she especially enjoyed singing in the choir at her church in Phoenix and at the Villas on Bear Creek. She was preceded in death by her parents, Walter J. and Ella Mae Timmons; brothers, Gordon, Walter, and Mac Timmons; and sisters, Audrey Timmons and Ima Faye Gardner.
She is survived by her sons, John Eric Duncan and wife Susan, and James Brian Duncan and wife Diane, all of Graham; daughter, Donna Duncan Stengle and husband Eric of Southlake; and eight grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 26 at the First Presbyterian Church in Graham.
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