"She had real long hair, wore bright red lipstick and had a pale complexion. She said she can understand how Anderson became a larger-than-life legend as the Donkey Lady. "We hauled water to them in the 1970s, but I lost track of Doc Anderson around 1977 when I went off to college," Flick said. I saw her crying one time after that happened. They would sneak up at night and cut the ropes on all the donkeys and horses, and Doc would have to hunt them down in the woods. "Often young high school students would tease and harass Doc Anderson. People driving along Weidner Road between Windcrest and Live Oak would see a strangely dressed, one-armed woman suddenly pop out of the woods leading donkeys to water, according to Flick.įlick said the Donkey Lady not only was a sad figure but a tormented one.
This area, complete with vacated shooting range and dump sites, a lake that was filled with silt and mud and barren paths that were occupied by “never do wells”, was the final area where Doc and her donkeys were last seen.īy this time, Doc’s health was failing and reports were that she had already lost one arm to diabetes making her appearance even more frightening to others who weren’t aware of her misfortune. Live Oak attorney at the time, Mayo Galindo, petitioned Bexar County and had the area deemed a “phantom paper city” and arranged for it to become part of the City of Live Oak. One government document that exists within the city records of Live Oak states that there was a band of “Okies” living in the woods, and there is even a story of two people that were murdered in the area. Car thieves would choose this area to strip down cars that they had stolen and set them on fire. It had been an area that was plagued by thugs and criminals for many years. Considerable efforts have been made to try to find more information on him or Doc by using military records, but with no success.Īfter a short stay, Doc relocated the wooded area that was known as Robards is the nearly 500 acres where the Woodcrest subdivision is currently located. All that is known about Oscar is that he had served in the military, he didn’t always live with Doc, and that he died long before her disappearance.
Some accounts have her living with a brother, but others claim that the gentleman, named Oscar, was her husband. She was well into her 60’s by this time and had been described as a frail, always wearing a sun bonnet, with pale white skin, bright red lipstick. The donkeys she had were reported to be “pink donkeys” the rarest of the breed. Live Oak, residents reported seeing her emerge from the woods with a string of six or more donkeys to get water out of the fire hydrants along current and future streets in the early days of Live Oak. After one of her evictions, Doc and her donkeys moved to a wooded area, that is now the main portion of Live Oak, near Ed Franz Elementary School. Sadly, when the owners of the property found out she was there, with her animals, they would evict her. Doc never really owned any land, or lived on property lawfully, but she would occupy undeveloped areas, which was referred to as “Squatting” in those days. She owned several donkeys and horses, and by most accounts she would rather spend what little money she made on food for the animals, rather than feed herself. In the mid 1940’s and 50’s, she ran “Doc’s Little Dude Ranch,” that legend says she originally existed in the area of the Medical Center in northwest San Antonio. The real-life persona of the mythical Donkey Lady was a woman by the name of Doc Anderson.
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