Althea Mayberry
Legacy Keeper • Forensic Advocate • Sacred Steward
I was born in Oregon and raised in California, shaped by coastlines and the quiet tension between faith and doubt, beauty and brokenness, freedom and constraint—and the women who taught me the facts of life. But it is in Childress, Texas, that I’ve planted my roots and claimed my name as a Texan. I am a mother to four, a grandmother to eight, and great-grandmother to one. Here, I’ve learned to honor memory as a living thing and to speak truth even when my voice trembles. My life has been shaped by the quiet labor of restoration: as a jewelry designer, I learned to make things brand new; as a restorer of old Dodge pickup trucks, I learned to mend what was broken; as a writer, to name what was lost; and as an advocate, to stand in the gap where justice falters.
My work on behalf of Scott Dackerman is not a campaign—it is a calling. It is the fruit of decades of friendship, forged in fire and grace. I have known Scott since 1985. I have seen him at his lowest and his most luminous. I have watched him grow, repent, rebuild, and rise. I have witnessed the system fail him again and again. And I have chosen to answer that failure with testimony, with truth, and with tireless love.
This site is part of a larger work I am creating: a living book of blessings, ballads, and stories that mark the thresholds of our lives—especially the ones shaped by injustice, resilience, and release. Each page is a prayer. Each story, a witness. Each act of advocacy, a ritual of repair. I believe in cosmic timing.
I believe in laughter as resistance. I believe in the power of naming what is holy, even in the midst of harm. And I believe that Scott deserves to come home.
If you are reading this, you are part of the story now.
Welcome.