Mary Sybil Ward

Ward Wilson Memory Hill

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Posted by: Ward Wilson
Date: Mar 24 2014 11:29 AM

     On March 19, 2014, in her Dothan home of 65 years, at 91 years 11 months Mary Sybil Roberts Ward passed away.  Of old Henry County pioneer stock, she was born on April 29, 1922 in the Headland home of her parents James William Roberts and Annie Clayton Reynolds. The family moved to Dothan around 1925, where Will had owned an
automobile dealership since about 1911.
     Sybil met her husband to be, James Andrew Ward, Jr "JA", at Dothan High School.  They both attended the UA where Sybil was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, and JA, Sigma Nu.
     During WWII JA was drafted, and they were married on Feb 23, 1944.  When JA was shipped overseas Sybil lived with her Mother and served the war effort by working for the OPA, the agency responsible for monitoring compliance of price control. During the war Sybil received an erroneous war department cable that JA had been killed in action.  JA died in 1984 after 40 years of happy marriage where Sybil excelled at being a homemaker.
     Sybil was a member of the Foster Street Methodist Church and then First United Methodist Church.  She loved flowers, and birds, as evident in her beautiful garden design.  She was a Garden Club member and belonged to the Dothan Country Club and Dothan Service League. She was also a Brownie Troop leader and volunteered for American Heart Association Fund drives.
     She is predeceased by her parents, her husband, her brother Charles Roberts and her niece Ann Marie Roberts Sibley.

     Funeral services will be held Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 11 AM at Ward Wilson Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Allie Freeman and Chaplain Paul Cowley. Burial will follow in Memory Hill Cemetery with Ward Wilson Funeral Home directing. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Tuesday, March 25, 2014 from 5 until 7:30 PM.

     Survivors include her son James Andrew Ward III, daughter-in-law, Wen Meyerson, of Ft. Worth, Texas, her daughter Charlotte Anne Ward, special friend Mark Dixon of Dothan, her grandchildren Whitney Ward Simon (Cole) of Birmingham, Alabama, and Andrew Ward of Ft. Worth, Texas, two great-grandchildren Lucy and Hap Simon, a sister-in-law, Nat Roberts of Houston, Texas, a niece, Anita Roberts Williamson of Houston, Texas, a grandnephew, Paul Sibley, and Sybil's devoted Pyrenees Darcy.
     Thanks beyond measure to her loving, devoted Home Instead caregivers, Jennifer, Keisha, Cori, her private caregiver Trena, and for the support of Angie, Lan, and the Home Instead staff, to Dr. Morriss, LaShonda, and Jennifer, to Gentiva Hospice's nurses, aides, and staff members.
     Flowers are welcomed, and donations may be made to Alzheimers Research, Alzheimer's Resource Center, Gentiva Hospice or Dothan First Methodist Church.

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