MARY MARGUERITE "MOLLY" STUART

A funeral services for Mary Marguerite "Molly" Stuart, 88, of Pineland, took place Saturday, September 7, 2024, in the chapel of Starr Funeral Home with Bro. Floyd Wright officiating. 

Burial followed services in Centerview Cemetery in Pineland, Texas.  Serving as pallbearers are Brent McClelland, Keith McCary, Mark Bonner, Jeff Boyd, Michael Mills and Jesse Mills.

She passed away on September 4, 2024, at Legacies Nursing and Rehab in Hemphill, Texas. She was born on May 21, 1936, in Los Angeles, California, to Peter Stupin and Josephine Wesche.

Molly spent her career as a machine operator before retiring and moving to Pineland, Texas in 2001. She had spent most of her adult life in Galveston and Houston, Texas, enriching the lives of those around her in each community she called home.

She is survived by her daughters, Belinda Welch and her husband, Tommy, of Pineland and Rebecca Monakino and her husband, Mark, of Houston; step-granddaughter, April Welch Mills and her husband, Michael, of Hemphill; granddaughter, Natasha McClelland and her husband, Brent, of Pineland; grandson, Jonathan Ansley and his wife, Amber, of Pineland and grandson, Mark Anthony Monakino of Houston; granddaughter, Angela Monakino of Houston and sister, JoAnn Green of Spring, Texas.  Mary was also a proud great-grandmother to 11 great-grandchildren, step-grandmother to 4 step-grandchildren, and step-great-grandmother to 5 step-great-grandchildren.

Mary was preceded in death by her mother, Josephine "Joan" Wesche; father, Peter "Pete" Stupin; sister, Alice "Joyce" and her husband, Tommy Martin; son, Ernest Thomas Jackson; stepdaughter, Stacey Welch Pate; nephew, Thomas Martin; and nieces, Mary Cook and Martha Havemann.

Starr Funeral Home in Hemphill, Texas, is handling the arrangements.

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