The matriarch of Dallas’ beloved wrestling family has died: wife of Fritz Von Erich

Doris Adkisson died eight days ago in Hawaii, her home for the last eight years, but will be buried in Dallas on November 11. Doris, 82, will be laid to rest next to her husband Jack and their sons Chris, David, Mike, Kerry and Jack Jr. at Grove Hill Memorial Park following a memorial at First Baptist Dallas downtown.

“I will always love her, but today she is with my brothers,” says her sole surviving son Kevin. “It’s a good day.”

The public is invited to her memorial, because Doris Adkisson lived much of her life in the public eye. Much of the time, it was against her wishes. In 1988 she told D‘s Skip Hollandsworth she wanted to be known as Doris Adkisson — preferred it, that one last vestige of normalcy. But by then, it was too late: She was the matriarch of Dallas’ beloved wrestling family: wife of Fritz Von Erich and mother to boys whose lives and deaths have been told and retold countless times.

“But to be honest,” she told Hollandsworth, “we hardly know who the Adkissons are anymore. We have been a wrestling family for so long. I suppose I want the family to know that when they are tired of being Von Erichs, there is a place they can come to where they can still be Adkissons. But I don’t know if you can ever stop being a Von Erich.”

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