This was in this morning's paper. It is a biger aarticil. Joan Elizabeth Adams Waldrip: Her maternal instinct reached beyond sons to her SMU family 06/20/2003 By JOE SIMNACHER / The Dallas Morning News Joan Elizabeth Adams Waldrip shared her caring touch of a mother with thousands in Dallas. At home, there were her four sons. At work, there were nearly three decades of freshmen in the dormitories beginning college life at Southern Methodist University. And then there were her 20 years as a reservist with the Dallas County Sheriff's Department, where she became a deputy commander. Mrs. Waldrip, 72, died Tuesday of cancer at a Dallas private-care home. Services will be at noon Saturday at Restland Funeral Home's Memorial Chapel, 9220 Restland Road in Dallas. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. She will be buried in Restland Memorial Park. "She's got four sons, but she probably has 10,000 sons and daughters that are her SMU family," said her son, Gary Allen of San Diego, Calif. For more than 27 years, Mrs. Waldrip managed the freshman and sports dormitories at SMU. "It allowed her to be with people," her son said. "She had an angelic touch, because everybody that she came in contact with, they remembered her. She was friendly and very selfless. She thought about other people before she thought about herself." Born in Duluth, Minn., Mrs. Waldrip earned an associate's degree at the University of Minnesota and began to work as a dental hygienist in Dallas. She worked as a dental hygienist for six months, before she married a physician. The couple moved to California where her husband, Dr. Rhfus Allen, completed a medical residency. The couple returned to Dallas, where Mrs. Waldrip began to work at SMU. They divorced in 1968. In the early 1970s, she married Ben Waldrip, who was friends with members of the Dallas County sheriff's reserves. Mrs. Waldrip worked with the reserve division from April 1976 to April 1996. Mr. Waldrip died in 2000. "They liked it and grew with the reserve family," Mr. Allen said. The sheriff's reserve will provide an honor guard for Mrs. Waldrip during her visitation hours Friday at the funeral home and will make a presentation at her funeral Saturday, her son said. "Those people respected her and loved her like a mother," her son said. "They were like a second family." In addition to her son, Mrs. Waldrip is survived by three other sons, Greg Allen, Larry Waldrip and Jack Waldrip, all of Dallas; her brother, Dick Adams of Spokane, Wash., and four grandchildren. Memorials may be made to Heartland Home Health and Hospice, 8700 Stemmons Freeway, Suite 144, Dallas, Texas 75247. E-mail jsimnacher@dallasnews.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/obituaries/stories/062003dnmetwaldripob.727e2.html Jim and Marca Lee McInnes Murray Visit our web site. http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/m/u/r/Buford-J-Murray/index.html?Welcome=1045454011