Lois Marie Shires Griffin

Lois Marie Shires Griffin was born on October 30, 1932, to Jerry and Gertrude Shires. She married A.D. Griffin, Sr., on October 11, 1952.
On April 19, 2018, at 85 years of age, she finished her course and went home to God. Lois was preceded in death by her husband, A.D. Griffin, Sr., her parents Jerry and Gertrude Shires, her brothers and sisters Myrtle Moore, Mary Lee Bales, Garland Shires, Art Shires and Elizabeth Chancellor and one dear son who was stillborn, Danny Griffin.
She is remembered today by her living sisters and brothers, Ruth Werley and husband Terry, Bettye Tidwell, Johnny Shires and wife Ida, and Zac Shires and wife Lanelle. Lois is honored this day by her six children, D. Griffin and wife Sandra of Weatherford, Trudy Griffin, Gilda Crawford and husband Dwaine, Russell Griffin and wife Janice, Paul Griffin, all of Ranger, and Biff Griffin and wife Mendy of Weatherford; ten beautiful grandchildren and their spouses (whom she loved as much as any born to her), DeeAnn Griffin & Stephen Matthews, ShaLee & Casey Willmott, John Eric & Ashley Griffin, Kandi & Dustin Sloan, Katie Crawford & Trevor Nowlin, Kelsi & Derek Schaefer, Garrett Griffin, Shelby & Cody Corder, Julie Griffin and Cassidy Griffin. She was also blessed with six, according to her, talented and amazingly intelligent great-grandchildren, Chasity Stricklin, Chloe Stricklin, Cadence Matthews, Kolbi Matthews, ShaeLynn Willmott, Andrea Marie (Andi) Corder and Laney Lois Sloan with another great-granddaughter on the way, Hazel Kay Schaefer.
Lois was a preacher’s kid and a tomboy. She was a mechanic, an amazing mathematician, a truck driver and a fisherman (and maybe a bit of a race car driver). Her church rented a monster truck to give rides – she rode twice!
She helped her husband provide for their family working at an electronics factory, a box factory and a sewing factory, as well as a nursing care center. If she had been born in a different time, she could have been a brain surgeon or a top notch lawyer. She was that smart.
Lois loved camping in the Colorado Rocky Mountains with her family. and she was competitive, nailing her young grandson with a well-thrown softball during a “friendly” game of baseball. Her teams were the Dallas Cowboys and the Texas Rangers. She kept stats on each player. She was fiercely loyal to close friends and a master at pinching pennies.
Only God could tell us how much she sacrificed for others throughout her life.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the River of Life Church in Eastland. Burial will follow in The Evergreen Cemetery in Ranger. The family will receive friends at Edwards Funeral Home in Ranger Saturday, 6~8 p.m.