Hazel Dockery
Obituaries
Daily Sentinel page 3D - December 22, 2019
Hazel Marie Dockery, 80,
of Grand Junction, Colorado
passed peacefully in her home
on Tuesday, December 10, 2019.
Arrangements were handled by
Brown’s Cremation & Funeral
Service in Grand Junction. A
celebration of Hazel’s life will
be planned for a later date and
announced for family and her
many friends.
Hazel, a Grand Junction
resident for 49 years, was born
June 19, 1939, in Potter County,
Texas, to Roy Glenn and Norine
Baker Walls. She graduated
from Palo Duro High School
in 1957. She attended Amarillo
Junior College and was a
bookkeeper for most of her
life, operating Hazel Dockery
Accounting. Many of her clients
became life-long friends and she
treasured each and every one of them.
On May 30, 1970, Hazel married the love of her life, Wayde
Dockery, and moved to Grand Junction to start a new chapter in
beautiful Western Colorado which she loved until her last breath.
Her favorite view was that of the Grand Mesa every morning when
she drank her coffee. She would always report to her family when
the bear and the swan on the side of the Mesa would appear and
disappear. She was adamant to stay in Grand Junction and remained
independent until her last breath.
The daughter of a dry land wheat farmer, Hazel was tough yet
loving like so many of her generation. She loved her family with
all her heart and they were the joy of her life. She enjoyed cooking,
skiing, attending countless horse shows with her daughter, and
band contests and concerts with her son. Later in life she engaged
in gardening, reading, and always kept abreast of politics.
She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; infant
brother, Don Walls; brothers, Clifton Walls and Richard Walls, and
sisters, Linda Walls Clark and Velma Lou Sellman.
Survivors include son, Daniel Dockery (Treena) of Pierce,
Colorado; daughter, Catherine Owen (Bruce) of Greenville, South
Carolina; sister, Ruth Houston of Houston, Texas; cherished
granddaughter, Claire Dockery; beloved great-grandson, Frankie
Beaudry; numerous nieces and nephews, as well as grandnieces and
grandnephews who she always enjoyed hearing from and following
their lives.
Hazel loved children and had a tender spot for those with special
needs. The family requests that memorial donations be made
to the Hazel Dockery Memorial Fund at St. Jude’s Children’s
Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105. The
online link is https://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR/GiftFunds/
GiftFunds?px=6399616&pg=personal&fr_id=39300.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3D Death Notice - December 15, 2019
Hazel Dockery, 80, Grand Junction, CO, died December 10, 2019 at her home. She was an Accountant.
