Nora Mae Appleby, 93, formerly of Eddy, Texas went to be with her Heavenly Father on January 28, 2016. Graveside service will be 2 PM Sunday, January 31, 2016 at Eddy Cemetery. Visitation will be Saturday, January 30 from 6-8 PM at Cole Funeral Home in McGregor, Texas.Nora was born on October 11, 1922 in Forreston, Texas to Roy and Iva Berrier, the oldest of six children. She graduated from Bruceville Eddy High School where she served as Editor of the yearbook and loved playing basketball. Later that year she married her husband of 58 year, James Payne Appleby. Soon after, they moved to Tyler, Texas where they spent 25 happy years and raised their three children. She was always dedicated to her church and Church family where she spent many years teaching young couples in Sunday school. After leaving Tyler, they shared their love for other children by returning to the Waco area and becoming loving Home Parents to many teenage boys at Methodist Boy Ranch. Many of whom continued to show their appreciation for years afterward. She and Payne spent their retirement years in their home in Eddy. Soon after Payne death in 1999, Nora moved to Deport, Texas to be near her children. She recently had resided at Heritage Nursing Home in Paris, Texas where she spent her last days. She is preceded in death by her parents, husband, and brothers, Thornton Berrier and wife, Wanda, R. L. Berrier and wife, Dorris and Roy Berrier, Jr. and wife, Wanda; sister, Gladys Harkness; brother-in-law, Sidney Taylor and son-in-law, Butch Stone. Nora leaves behind her three children, Janet Stone of Sherman, Texas, Jim Appleby and wife, Betsy of Kennebunk, Maine, Susan Roach and husband,Philip of Deport, Texas; six grandchildren, Brent Palmer, Brandy Palmer, Rhett Stone, Jimmy Appleby, Paul Appleby, Beth Spray and 11 great-grandchildren; sister, Mary Joyce Taylor of Alvin, Texas; brother-in-law, Bob Harkness of Friendswood.