OBITUARY: Margaret Williams Dotson, 83, dies June 7, 2013
Margaret Williams Dotson, 83, passed away in College Station, Texas, on June 7, 2013. Margaret was born in her farmhouse home in Concho County, Texas, on Dec. 10, 1929. She moved to her parents’ ranch in Llano County in 1933 and graduated high school in 1947.
Margaret started college at Mary Hardin-Baylor, where she met JT Dotson on a blind date. They were married Sept. 9, 1950, just after she received her journalism degree from the University of Texas. She and JT then began a 21-year military career. She received her teaching certificate in 1962 from South Dakota State University. JT retired in 1971, and they moved to College Station, where Margaret received her master’s degree in educational psychology at Texas A&M University in 1974. She became the educational diagnostician for College Station ISD, one of the first in Texas. Starting in 1980, she was the diagnostician in Llano and then in Burnet until her retirement. Margaret volunteered at the women’s prison and Packsaddle Elementary. She was a lifetime member of the Baptist church and a member of the Red Hat Society and Alpha Chi Omega. Margaret loved hummingbirds, bluebonnets and Texas A&M. Her passions were reading, writing and family.
Preceding her in death were her parents, William Joseph “Bill” Williams and Gertrude Ligon Williams. Survivors include her husband of more than 62 years, JT Dotson; son, Jay Dotson and wife Frances of College Station; daughters, Debbie Jeanne Begnaud and husband John of San Angelo, Donna Borsack and husband David of College Station and Diana Bokelman and husband, Charles of College Station. She has 13 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren and was expecting two more. Survivors also include her sisters, Claire Nell Edwards and husband Earl, Marilyn Davis and husband Darrel and Linda Jewell and husband Al; and brother, W. Jay Williams.
A visitation is 2-4 p.m. June 10 at Putnam Funeral Home, 145 Texas Ave. in Kingsland, (325) 388-0008. A funeral service is 2 p.m. June 11 at the funeral home.
An online guest register may be signed at www.putnamcares.com.