Sarah Spurlock McLain
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Sarah Spurlock McLain, 89, peacefully passed away in her sleep on February 25, 2022 just a few days shy of her 90th birthday. Sarah's life will be celebrated by close family members with a small memorial service at her daughter's home in Midlothian.
Sarah was born in Montgomery, Alabama on March 1, 1932 to Ollie Kendrick Spurlock and Hugh Griffith Spurlock, Sr. She graduated from Phillips High School in Birmingham, Alabama and obtained a master's degree from Auburn University in home economics, area of family and child development, in 1956. During her high school and college years, Sarah was named Miss Phillipian, Phillips High School and Miss Auburn 1953, Auburn University. At Auburn, she served as president of the home economics club, and was president of her sorority. By the 1970's, Sarah's sensorineural hearing loss made it difficult to teach in a larger classroom so she returned to college where she earned degrees in vocational home economics and special education at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. She was an excellent lip reader and used a service dog provided by Dogs for the Deaf to assist her in the special education classroom where she worked from 1975 until her retirement from teaching.
Sarah was a life-long learner, a voracious reader, a skilled seamstress, and an "animal whisperer". She loved the outdoors and spent many hours birdwatching, taming squirrels, and admiring the beautiful woods of Alabama and Georgia. Sarah took great delight in watching the antics of her pet goats and was the mom who would let her children have any kind of animal they wanted.
Sarah made her way to Texas in 2016 to live close to her daughter and came to appreciate jalapeno peppers and Spring Creek Barbeque. She is survived by her daughter, Karen Immler McGeever; son, William Eugene Doss, Jr; nine grandchildren, David Immler, Mark Immler, Chris Doss, Kelly Gallaspy, Brad Doss, Lance Doss, Thalia Shriver, Adam Bretz, and Brandon Bretz. She is also blessed with wonderful grandsons and daughters-in-laws and 21 great grandchildren.