Ada “Sissy” Maxine Dupre passed away peacefully on Monday, February 7th. A Memorial Service will be held at 12pm on Friday, February 11th at Cypress Creek Church in Wimberley, TX with a reception to follow at the Wimberley Cafe.
Sissy was born on January 25, 1937 in Centralia, Illinois, to Herschel Preston McCullough and Mary Maxine McCullough. She had an idyllic childhood in Illinois. The McCulloughs moved to Kilgore, TX where she and her siblings, Patty and Mac, thrived on a quaint street filled with friends. As a Junior High and High School cheerleader, Sissy grew up on the sidelines of the football field. Sissy graduated third in her class from Kilgore High School (If you didn’t already know). She then attended Kilgore College where she was a member of the famed Rangerettes drill team.
While on the road for the Senior Bowl game in Mobile, Alabama, she met her husband Louis George Dupre. She married L.G. on February 4, 1955 in Waco, TX, where he played football at Baylor University. Shortly after, L.G. was drafted to the Baltimore Colts, and they headed to Baltimore for training camp. One year later, they welcomed their son, Larry Preston Dupre. Their daughter Nancy Patricia Dupre joined the family in 1959.
The family returned to Texas with a trade to the Dallas Cowboys, where Sissy continued her career as a self-proclaimed cleat-chaser. As a football wife, Sissy traveled all around the country for games, making friends everywhere she went. Whether it was Frank Sinatra in NYC or Jerry Jeff Walker at McFarland Auditorium, she loved dancing and live music, and she loved dressing up.
In Dallas, Sissy was a top Real Estate Agent with Ellen Terry Realtors and a member of First Baptist Church where she taught Sunday School. Sissy was a talented interior decorator and a wedding planner for The Dallas Country Club and Brook Hollow Golf Club. While her son Larry played football for Texas Tech, Sissy got back to the sidelines, where she let Bill Parcels know how to do his job.
Sissy loved to move. She was inspired by new spaces to decorate and new people to meet. She returned to Kilgore to assist her daughter Nancy with a restaurant venture and spend time with her childhood best friends. From there, she went on to her beloved Wimberley, TX and took her seat as a fixture at the Wimberley Cafe. She was famous for her pies and wanted to be famous for her gumbo. At 83, she was the winner of her fantasy football league. Sissy still talked to her best friend Sandra Tucker on the phone every single day until her last day.
Sissy left us with this advice: “Cowboy, you can be right, or you can be happy.”
Cheers, Big Ears!
Sissy is survived by her children Larry Dupre and Nancy Dupre; their spouses Karla Dupre and Ray Guthrie; six grandchildren: Jessica Barnhill and her husband Andrew, Meagan Burroughs and her husband Scott, Darby Dupre, Demi Dupre, Preston Dupre, and Delaney Dupre; two great grandchildren Sylvan Burroughs and Rem Burroughs; brother Herschel McCullough and his wife Robin; nieces Lisa Pierce and Michele Woods and her husband Derek and their children Harper and Crew; nephews Marc McCullough, Preston Pierce and his wife Becky and their children Amy and Randy, and Ted Pierce and his wife Dona and their children Hudson and Colston.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Wag at www. wimberleywagrescue.org.
