Mary Francis Ivory (Tulia)
Mary Ivory passed away on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, one day after celebrating her 73rd birthday.
Mary was born on April 18, 1950, in Itasca, Texas, to John and Mary Ella (Lockett) Mathis and graduated from Lockney High School.
She married LB Ivory in Fort Worth on May 10, 1950, and later relocated to Silverton. She was a housewife until her children were almost grown when she went to work for Xcel for a number of years, then Walmart for a few years, and the Silverton ISD for a number of years. She ended up working for the Boll Weevil Eradication Program for a number of years before she retired. She attended First Baptist Church in Silverton and the Silverton Methodist Church.
She is preceded in death by her parents, a son Lyndell Ivory and a daughter Roslin Ivory.
Her family includes her husband: LB Ivory of Silverton; her sons: Jonathan Ivory and wife Jennifer of Cusseta, Georgia, and Joseph Ivory and wife Heather of Brownsville, Kentucky; several brothers and sisters and her grandchildren: Quinten, Kelsey, Zavier, Mackenzie, Ziva, Bailey, Tavian, Corbin and Dawson.
No services are planned at this time.
