Gaynell Ross Dalton, 101, died on April 30, 2023, at Lily Springs Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Lampasas.
Visitation will be held at Sneed-Carnley Funeral Chapel in Lampasas from 5-7 p.m. on May 5.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. May 6 at Adamsville Baptist Church. Interment will follow at Townsen Cemetery in Adamsville.
Gaynell was born on March 30, 1922, in Yoakum to Robert Ross and Aileen Gibson Ross. She was raised in South Texas and lived in Kenedy until she moved to Lampasas in the spring of 1944.
That same year, she married Vernon Dalton on Nov. 4, 1944 in Lampasas at the Keystone Star Hotel, where they also spent their honeymoon. Gaynell and Vernon were married for 63 years until his death in 2007.
Gaynell loved to fish and spent time at Bend on the Colorado River, catching catfish with Vernon and her kids and grandkids. She also loved to cook, do crossword puzzles, read romance novels and watch her “stories” on daytime TV.
From 1944 until the early 1970s, Gaynell worked as a waitress at most of the cafes in town. She also worked at the Producer’s Produce Company for many years.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Vernon; her son, Chester Lee “Beaver” Dalton; six brothers, Denver Ross, William Ross, Norman Ross, John Ross, Elliott Ross and Robert Ross Jr.; sisters Marjorie Walker, Ila Barbee, Alma Wren; and by Maxine Connolly.
Gaynell is survived by her son, Tommy Mack Brown and wife, Henrietta of Lampasas; daughter-in-law, Raynell Dalton of Cedar Park; former daughterin- law, Susie (Garner) Wakeland of Lampasas; Mary Jo Speaks of San Antonio; sisters-in-law Irene Ross of Beeville and Peggy Ross of Alice; grandchildren Sherill Franke and husband Monte of Lisbon, Portugal, Tammy Boriack and husband Tom of Jonestown, and Shane Brown and wife Amy, Karen Timmons and husband Bruce, and Elizabeth Davis and husband Greg Lanford, all of Lampasas; great-grandchildren Kyler Boline of Austin, McKaul Boline and wife Katie of Austin, Ashley Boriack of Houston, Tanner Boriack and wife Kate of Cypress, Macy Boriack of Austin, and Michael January, Benjamin Brown, Aidan Wiley and Ryan Wiley, all of Lampasas, and Roy Sewell of Fort Worth; great-greatgrandchildren Paisley and Adelyn Boline of Austin, Lilly and Delilah Boline of Cedar Park, Lily Sewell of Fort Worth, and Kooper Hankins of Lampasas; and numerous nieces and nephews. Gaynell also had many extra “grandchildren,” especially James Rogers of Goldthwaite and Kyle Fortenberry of Justin.
