She later moved to India after her husband's death, and she eventually became general secretary of Alliance Educational Foundation, which operates Sri Adwayananda Public School.
[2] Her father, Glenn Elbert Shelton (1914–1990), was a local agricultural journalist for the Times Record News and KTRN (now KWFS).
[2][3] Her mother, Elsa Barnes Shelton (1922–1973), was an elementary school teacher based in Wichita Falls.
[7] Originally an English teacher at UT Austin as of 1971,[1] she became a lecturer at the Department of American Studies in 1982, before being promoted to assistant professor later the same year.
[10] They had one child, with whom she moved to India after his death,[2] where she eventually became general secretary of Alliance Educational Foundation, a non-government organization which operates Sri Adwayananda Public School.