Patricia Ann Dalton, 47, of Waco, passed away Sunday, July 28, 2013 in a Houston hospital. Funeral services will be 10:00 AM, Thursday, August 1, 2013 at Connally/Compton Funeral Directors Chapel with Reverend David Cozart officiating. Interment will follow in Oakwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 PM on Wednesday, July 31st at the funeral home.Ms. Dalton was born on August 7, 1965 at Darnall Army Hospital in Fort Hood to Charles H. and Mary Louise Caldon Dalton. She grew up in Lampasas and graduated from Lampasas High School. Ms. Dalton lived in Central Texas all of her life. She worked at Wal-Mart and was a switchboard operator for EMSI. Ms. Dalton loved her family and her pets; especially her son, who she centered her life around. She was preceded in death by her father and her brother, Jeff Dalton.Survivors include her mother, Mary Louise Dalton of Waco, son, Joshua Ross Bates of Waco, brother, Charles Dalton, Jr. of Gatesville and his son, Christopher Nelson and his daughter, Gracee Nelson both of Copperas Cove, sister, Diane Hayes of Glasgow, Kentucky and her sons, Nickalas Hayes of Glasgow, Kentucky and Richard Stockton of Fort Hood and her daughter, Jeannie Hayes of Glasgow, Kentucky.