A woman with a passion for training up young children has met a forced detour in her career, but she refuses to let retirement keep her from the life she’s known and led.
Dee-Dee Gryder welcomed the first students and faculty onto the campus at Crockett Early Childhood Center in Ennis 20 years ago, and has served as the principal ever since. That is, until a nasty fall at school, on the ice, back i…