Mary Louise Autry Greer was born in Amarillo, Texas on September 18, 1926, to George and Marie Autry. Her father, George Monroe Autry II, was known in Amarillo in the 1930’s-1950’s for Autry Print Shop on Polk Street, his articles in the Amarillo Times, and for the art work that he and Panhandle artists produced during that time. Mary grew up during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl years in Amarillo, and would talk about her memories of huge walls of dust coming over the town and filling up their windowsills. Beginning in the first grade, she had a close-knit group of friends, the Dipsy Doodles, who kept in touch with each other their entire lives. She graduated from Amarillo High School, where she was voted Best All-Around Student. Mary then attended Texas State College for Women (now Texas Women's University) in Denton, and then the University of Texas in Austin through her junior year. She married Rushton "Rusty" Greer in 1948 and moved to Port Arthur, where Rusty managed Greer Office Supply with his father. In 1953 she contracted polio and overcame its limitations until around age 50 when post-polio syndrome began to limit mobility. At 33, she moved to Fort Worth, where she lived for almost 40 years. She graduated from Texas Christian University in 1967 and received a top award for creative writing. One of her greatest accomplishments was publishing a collection of her father’s colorful writings, "Much obliged! A limited and loose collection of gratitude and bias, tales and sensations" is still in print and in libraries across the country. Her husband Rusty tragically died in an accident in 1987. Mary then moved to each of the towns where her children live - first to Santa Fe, New Mexico and then to Beaumont, Texas. When Hurricane Rita caused evacuations from that town, she moved to Portland, Oregon where she lived for seven years and then died peacefully on November 25, 2012.