Mayme Lou (Lasater) Fletcher

Mayme Lou Fletcher, 97, departed this life Thursday, June 24, 2021 at her home in Slidell, Texas.

Funeral is 2:00 p.m. Monday, June 28, 2021 at First Baptist Church in Slidell with burial at Slidell Cemetery. Family will receive friends 6-8 p.m. Sunday at Hawkins Funeral Home in Decatur.

Rev. David Bradshaw and Rev. Todd Stevens will officiate. Pallbearers will include Chris Fletcher, Eric Fletcher, Ken Miles, David Knight, Halen Fletcher, Jaxsyn Fletcher, Weldon Lovejoy, and Johnny Zuniga. Honorary pallbearers include, Strike Franklin, Glen Cassidy, Steve Balthrop, Ronnie Hickerson, Reggie Hickerson, Spud Flemming, Leonard Logan, and John North.

Mayme was born in Decatur, Texas on January 5, 1924 to Pearl Mae Pinkerton Lasater and W.D. Lasater. She was united in marriage June 26, 1943 to Kyle “Tooter” Fletcher in Fort Worth, Texas. Mayme worked at Consolidated Aircraft during World War II.

In 1948, her and her husband Tooter opened Fletcher Feed Store and Mill. In 1964, she went to work for J.R. Branch, Sheriff of Wise County. She received her certification in law enforcement at the Arlington Police Academy in 1969. In 1974, she went to work at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas becoming the first certified female officer in Wise and Denton Counties. Mayme retired as a Sergeant in 1991. After retiring from the Department of Public Saftey she worked in the TWU Bookstore and information booth until 2006.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 70 years, Tooter Fletcher; her mother, Pearl Mae and step-father, Earl Standifer; her infant sister, Naomi Ruth Lasater; and foster son and his wife Wayne and Maurine Lovejoy.

Those left behind to cherish her memory are her son, Tim Fletcher and wife Darlene; grandsons, Eric Fletcher and wife Brandy, Chris Fletcher and wife Courtney; her granddaughters, Camille Miles and husband Ken, Bridget Knight and husband David; Great-grandsons, Halen, Jaxsyn, Zhakry, Bralyn, Kolton, and Kameron Fletcher; her great-granddaughters, Camryn and Carley Franklin, Mylee and Macklyn Fletcher, Kynslee and Kamdyn Knight, and Bella Fletcher; her foster grandchildren, Weldon Lovejoy and wife Kyla, Dana Leierer and husband Michael and son Tyler Kilburn, and a host of family and friends.

Expressions of sympathy can be made to the First Baptist Church of Slidell’s Youth Ministry P.O. Box 104 Slidell, Texas 76267