Daurice Fae Ring

08/15/1949 to 03/07/2018

Fort Worth, Texas

Daurice was born August 15, 1949 and unexpectedly left our world on March 7, 2018. She rocked on to the great beyond after complications from cardiac surgery. Daurice is predeceased by her loving parents, Maurice Raymond Bessire and Doris Jean Nevil Bessire of White Settlement, Texas. Daurice is survived by her brother, children and 3 grandsons.

Memorial:

Saturday March 24, 2018

2:00 pm at Unity Church of Fort Worth, 5051 Trail Lake Drive, Fort Worth, TX 76133.

Daurice was a devoted and loving sister to Charles “Charlie” Vincent Bessire of Granbury, Texas. Daurice was a loving, kind, devoted and supportive mother to her two children; daughter, Genifer Ring Michel and her husband Thomas Michel of Fort Worth, Texas; and her son, Grant Ring and his wife Elyse Dara of Fort Worth, Texas. She was known as loving “Grandmother” to her three grandsons Jack Thomas Michel, Luke Matthew Michel, and Sean Thomas Michel. Daurice is also survived by a very large extended family of aunts, uncles, and cousins whom she deeply loved and cared for.

Daurice grew up in White Settlement, Texas and proudly attended White Settlement ISD schools for all of her early educational years. She graduated from Brewer High School in 1967. This past September, she attended her 50th class reunion. As a teen, Daurice worked as a Candy Striper volunteer and taught piano lessons. During her early adult life, Daurice was employed as a respiratory therapist and worked her way, as a young mother, through the University of Texas at Arlington, earning a baccalaureate degree in nursing. In the late 1980’s, she was part of the first graduating class of Family Nurse Practitioners from the UTA advanced practice nurse masters program. Over her long career in nursing, as an RN and Family Nurse Practitioner, Daurice filled many roles. She worked as a school nurse, an infection control nurse, employee health nurse, pediatric clinical nurse specialist, UTA instructor, urgent care and primary healthcare provider.

Professionally, Daurice dedicated her life as an RN, Family Nurse Practitioner to serve and better her community’s health. Over the years, she enjoyed practicing at JPS Health Network and T & R Clinic. Her life had come full circle. Daurice was proudly working in the very community that she was born and raised in. For many productive years, she was the primary health care provider for JPS Health Network’s White Settlement ISD School Based Clinic. In this role, Daurice found herself as part of another “family” of colleagues, patients, patient families, and dear friends that she passionately served up until the day of her passing.

Daurice was a lifelong learner, voracious reader, book club member, nurse educator, visual and performing arts appreciator and patron, avid collector, and a staunch advocate of the democratic process. She encouraged everyone to “get educated” on political and social issues, candidates, and representatives. Even on her very last day, she called and texted to encourage others to “be sure to vote”. Daurice always felt words and education were vitally important. She encouraged and supported hundreds of people to further their educational pursuits. Daurice spent countless hours with nursing school and nurse practitioner students, acting as mentor and preceptor. Daurice’s sunny disposition and positive outlook made all things a little more special and bad situations a little bit better.

Daurice was crazy about quilting. What she loved most about quilting was the time she spent with her beloved “quilt sisters”. Originally, she took up quilting as a fun way to spend quality time with her mother. She loved hours of laughing, chatting, telling stories, solving the world’s problems, more laughing, and snacking with her quilt sisters on frequent quilting retreats. Daurice was a member of the Fort Worth Quilt Guild’s “Sophisticated Ladies United to Sew” (aka the S.L.U.T.S). She currently held the honorable position of the “Head Needle” for the Unity Church of Fort Worth’s “Sew-N-Sews” quilt bee. As a Unity Sew-N-Sew, Daurice contributed to many special quilts uniquely created to wrap others in warmth and love.

Daurice was a long-time member, former board member, and volunteer of the Unity Church of Fort Worth where she gave much of her time, energy, and love and filled her spirit “right up to the top”.

Daurice will be dearly missed by her family and friends for her infectious, room-filling, loud, and ever-present laughter, quick wit and hilarious sense of humor. She will be remembered for her sage wisdom, well-reasoned advice, and her seasoned medical expertise. She always had a kind and loving spirit followed up by encouraging and compassionate words and (often anonymous) acts. She was full of caring energy and overflowed with creative and thoughtful ideas. Daurice was also a tad bit ornery, lovably stubborn, and giving to a fault. After endless attempts, she never did figure out her right from her left and she never fully memorized that dastardly multiplication table. Above all, Daurice will be forever missed for her dedicated, loyal, inclusive, warm, and loving friendship that she freely offered to all that knew her.