Graveside services for Mary Ann Stribling Brittain, 95, of Dallas, Texas will be Thursday December 26th, 2019 at 2pm at the Alto City Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the funeral home in Alto. Mrs. Brittain went to heaven peacefully in her sleep at her home. She was born August 18th, 1924 in Jacksonville, Texas and grew up in Alto, Texas. She married the little boy across the street and the love of her life, Ben Brittain from Alto who had just been released as a WWII POW for 18 months. She is preceded in death by her parents, Bob and Edith Stribling of Alto, and husband Benjamin (Ben) Barton Brittain. She is survived by her daughter Georgeann Brittain Crawford and husband Alan Crawford; sister Sara Stribling Hicks and husband Jimmy Hicks of Tyler, Texas; grandsons Christopher Alan Crawford and wife Deirdre and Barton "Colin" Crawford and wife Laura. She is also survived by her niece Gina Hicks Pettigrew and husband Louis and nephew Bobby Hicks and wife Pam. Her niece Connie McAuliffe and nephew Don McDaniel and wife Sherrie; her great grandsons Jack Crawford, Gus Crawford, and Hudson Crawford and great granddaughter Cameran Crawford