Dennis Dearing

Dennis Travis Dearing, age 85, passed away peacefully surrounded by loved ones on June 9, 2023 at New Haven Assisted Living in Tomball. He was born December 14, 1937, to Sally (Maddox) Dearing and Dennis Dearing in Raymondville, Texas. For 47 ½ years, Dennis worked at Stewart & Stevenson as an electrical engineer supporting all the Dearing girls and sending them to college, churning out four school teachers and marrying them off one by one in birth order. His job as an engineer followed him home (and everywhere else for that matter). He graphed his blood pressure. He charted his heart rate. He measured the exact amount of water his tomatoes needed, producing the most delicious specimens in Texas (and probably the world over). He even timed his Blue Bell ice cream to find the perfect melting point for optimal flavor! Anyone who came in contact with Dennis Dearing was offered a Blue Bell ice cream cup and then made to wait the proven five minutes. No more. No less. He wasn’t all 90 degree angles. He also had a deep appreciation of beauty and nature, whether in his choice of a wife or his obsession with fall foliage. All year long he would plan for an annual trip all the way to Maine, Margo driving the whole way there and back. Dog-eared Country Road magazines, marked maps, and yellow legal pads beaten with endless details of possible destinations (and their exact mileage in between) would litter the living room all year long as he obsessed over this trip to see the trees. Dennis loved his trips to New England, his Blue Bell ice cream, fishing, and all things nature, but most of all he loved his family and friends. He was truly a one-of-a-kind character, and he will be dearly missed by all. He is survived by his wife, Margo Dearing, and their four daughters, Kelly and husband, Troy Thompson; Tina and husband, Jerry Tyson; Stacey and husband, Kirk Webb; Erin and husband, Pete Miller; his two sisters, Gaile Kelly and June Cooper, and her husband, Billy Cooper; his eight grandchildren, Nathan Thompson and wife, Liz Thompson; Hayden Thompson; Jack and Katie Tyson; Maggie Webb-Gariepy and husband, Levi Gariepy; Emmy Webb-Crenshaw and husband, Andrew Crenshaw; Jacqueline and Peter Miller; and finally, great-granddaughter, Burkely Thompson. Dennis is preceded in death by his sister, Floryne Yarborough, his mother, Sally (Maddox) Dearing, and his father, Dennis Tab Dearing.

Dennis Dearing

December 14, 1937 - June 9, 2023