Dorothy Gean Vanginault

Dorothy Gean Vanginault of Winnsboro was born on January 18, 1939 and passed away peacefully on February 22, 2023. Dorothy and her husband Valton were married for sixty years. Mrs. Vanginault was preceded in death by son Michael Don Vanginault and grandchildren Emilee Nickole Robinson and Christopher Lance King. Dorothy is survived by her husband Valton; son and daughter-in-law Ray and Melissa Vanginault of Winnsboro, Tx.; daughter and son-in-law Pam and Kyle Lucas of San Antonio, Tx.; son James Vanginault of Winnsboro, Tx. She is also survived by numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. There will be no service.

Your tombstone stands among the rest; Neglected and alone.

The name and date are chiseled out

On polished, marbled stone.

It reaches out to all who care

It is too late to mourn. You did not know that I exist

You died and I was born. Yet each of us are cells of you

In flesh, in blood, in bone. Our blood contracts and beats a pulse

Entirely not our own. Dear Ancestor, the place you filled,

One hundred years ago

Spreads out among the ones you left, Who would have loved you so.