Ellen Williams Hancock, security worker at the Oaks of Collin Creek, was a woman I would talk to often as I would walk home from work when I lived there. At that time, I worked evenings so I would end up walking home around 9 or 10 at night. She would be in her gaurd station and I would talk a little with her as I was headed home.

So, it comes as a complete shock to me to hear that she was murdered by her son. Completely don’t understand that. She was very nice, very kind. She’d let TJ (sisters fiance) in even though he wasn’t an actual resident.

For more than a decade, Ms. Hancock’s face was a familiar sight at the Oaks of Collin Creek apartments, where she was affectionately known as “Grannie.”She spent years preparing apartments for new residents at the complex. After she experienced health problems, the complex made a place for her in the guard station, where she greeted residents as they came home. Over the weekend, that station became a memorial site, where folks placed candles, flowers and messages.

— Dallas Morning News

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