Nelda Sue Danforth

Nelda Sue Danforth passed away at the age of 86 on November 22, 2023, in Mesquite, Texas. Nelda was born June 12, 1937. She worked at Gardner Denver-Mayhew where she met her loving husband Carroll Eugene “Gene” Danforth, and they married December 31, 1957. She went on to work for Dallas Cap and Emblem Company (Dal-Cap) and Bank of America where she retired. She was a member of Mesquite Church of Christ from the mid 1950’s to the end of the 1980’s.

Nelda is preceded in death by her husband Gene, her parents A.H McAbee and Dorothy Dale McAbee Thompson and sister Virginia Merle McAbee.

Nelda is survived by her daughters Susan Colwell and husband Roger, Kimberly Danforth and wife Erika Barron, granddaughters Whitney Harrison and Caitlyn Stephens and great-grandchildren, Alaina Stephens, Taylor Harrison and Erik Stephens as well as many cousins, nieces, nephews, and friends.

The family requests that in lieu of flowers memorial donations be made to The Alzheimer’s Association or The American Cancer Society.

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