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Here is an excerpt from her obituaries as
published in the Dallas Morning News on
7/7/2005:
"NASH, MARY S., ..
of Kaufman, Texas died on July 1 of lung
cancer. She was born in 1948 to Temple Voiers and Elizabeth Galbraith Nash and is
survived by her husband of 29 years, Steve
Hulme, and son, Nash Hulme, both of Kaufman.
She graduated from Kaufman High School in
1966 and Southern Methodist University in
1970. She worked for the Dallas accounting
firm of Coopers & Lybrand from 1982 until
1998, providing computer technical support
for its tax department. While living in the
Swiss Avenue
Historic District of Dallas, she advocated
neighborhood preservation and lobbied City
of
Dallas officials to rewrite the city's
thoroughfare plan. Along with friend Norma
Minnis, Dallas City Councilman Lee Simpson,
and attorney Louis Nichols, she coauthored
the 1981 Thoroughfare Notification Amendment
to the Dallas City Charter which requires
written notice to affected property owners
prior to street widenings. She and her
family moved to Kaufman in 1987 at which
time she realized a horse slaughtering
facility was located next to her long-time
family farm. In 2003, after learning that
the slaughter plant violated Texas
law, she joined with the Texas Humane
Legislation Network to defeat a Texas House
bill that would have legalized Texas two
horse slaughter plants in Kaufman and Fort
Worth, at the time the only horse slaughter
plants in the United States.
A tireless advocate for her hometown of
Kaufman she worked to involve
more citizens in city government. The 2003
election and 2005 re-election of
Mayor Paula Bacon was the result of
educating citizens on issues that
directly affected their lives. She believed
an educated electorate would make
the right decision. She leaves friends and
family whose lives are forever
changed because they knew Mary Nash. Ms.
Nash asked that there be no formal service
after her death. "
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Mary had asked to have her ashes spread over
her horses' graves. What a wonderful woman
she was. May she some day rest in peace.
Until They are Safe.
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