Mary M. McMillan

Mary "Mickey" McMillan was born on November 18, 1922 to James C. Long Sr. and Mary Loretta Leverett Long in Camp Wood, Texas near the town of Uvalde in Real County. She passed away on Saturday, October 19, 2019 in Brady, Texas. A visitation will be held on Thursday, October 24, 2019 from 9:00 to 10:00am at Heritage Funeral Home in Brady. A funeral service will be held at the Heritage Funeral Home Chapel on Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 10:00am with Reverend Gaylon Morris and Charles Partin officiating. Interment will be held on Friday, October 25, 2019 at 9:00am at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas. Mickey attended college at Tarleton, T.S.C.W in Denton, Texas, Howard Payne, and graduated from McMurry in Abilene, Texas with her degree in Elementary and Physical Education and years later certified in Early Childhood for 3 and 4 year olds. Her teaching career included 3-4-5 grades in Doole, Texas, 1st and 2nd grades in Lohn, Texas, and girls' junior high gym classes and coaching in Doole, Lohn, Devine, and Brady, Texas. For 13 years she taught 3 and 4 years olds in Brady as a Special Needs Teacher, all for a total of 32 years in the field of education. During her years as an educator, children from broken homes were one of her chief concerns and she would try to do anything to make their lives better. As the years passed, and ex-students become adults, it was an amazing thing to her that they would tell her how much she helped them just by listening to her problems. She married Hubert Leon McMillan on May 21, 1945 and they cherished 56 years of marriage. When Mickey and Leon married, gas was rationed, so they really didn't have a honeymoon. The real big event in their life, they called their "delayed honeymoon" was a two week trip back to England to visit friends and Leon's old B-24 Air Force Base in Wendling, England. Leon and Mickey were members of the Methodist Church at Rockwood and spent time working with the Methodist-Baptist combined youth group. In their later years, Leon and Mickey spent time enjoying their love of outdoor life - fishing, boating, and R.V.ing to many different parts of the country. She was a very independent person and believed in keeping busy -"hard work" at any task was her belief. A loving wife and a true help-mate, she supported Leon in all his farming and ranching endeavors. She was a busy worker at any task on the farm, ranch, and school activities. Her favorite things were young people, flowers, sewing, and a tremendous love for reading. The real thing that she valued most from others was kindness, respect, and honesty. Once you were her friend, regardless of what you said or did, she was always there for you in good times and bad. She never met a stranger and helped people in many ways that will never be known. She was a member of Texas State Teachers Association, the Texas Retired Teachers Association, AARP, Texas Farm Bureau, the 392nd W.W.II Bomb Group Association, the 8th Air Force Association of W.W.II, and the McCulloch County Retired Teachers Association. Mickey is preceded in death by her beloved husband, Hubert Leon McMillan; parents, J.C. and Loretta Long; brothers, James Coke Long and Werth Long; sisters, Loretta Mae Long, Virgenia Beth Long and Thelma Faye Long;sister-in-law, Pat Long and Florence Long; brothers-in-law, Earl Crawford and Truman E. Long. Mickey is survived by her brother, Wayne Long; sisters, Ada Nell Crawford and Maedell Long; and a host of nieces, nephews and great-nieces and nephews. She was lovingly known as "Mimi" to Ben and Will Sutter.

Mary M. McMillan

November 18, 1922 - October 19, 2019