IMessage Text Messaging Problem

A few months ago my sister decided to change phones from an iPhone to another phone, she called Apple Support to remove iMessage registration which she did successfully. The thing is iMessage on my Mac Mini and on my Macbook Pro still shows her number as registered to iMessage. In the drop down, it shows her email address which is registered to iMessage since she has a Macbook Pro, and her phone number which on rare occasion, it actually shows "123-456-7890 Text Message" next to it...But mostly it still says "123-456-7890 iMessage". I do have an iPhone 6+ and Text Message Forwarding on.
Like when it works, and I am texting her on the MacMini and I would need to restart the mac for w/e reason, when I try to text her again it will for some reason switch to iMessage and then I get an undeliverable message.
I then completely reset iMessage by deleting all the plists relative to iMessage and all the history for her and I deleted her contact info and my messages on both my macs and my iPhone.
Is there anything I am missing? This is extremely frustrating. Does anyone have any ideas?

Hi,
Even before Yosemite and iOS 8 and the Text Forwarding function Messages has always shown any number as a potential iMessages contact.
It shows my land line as and iMessages contact but without the Blue "previous contact" indicator.
I do not have any other numbers to check the "number Text Message" indicator with at the moment.
I have seen several other threads where SMS started on the iPhone and then continued on the Mac works but trying to Start one on the Mac does not.
There is now no setting in the File Menu to start a specific type of Chat.
Deleting all the .plists for the Messages app is now extensive as it involves all the ones with iChat in the titles and some with iMessages in the tiles plus several that don't.
It also involves some in the ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iChat sub folders and some in the com.apple.soagent folder as well.
Some will achieve nothing.
com.apple.iChat.SubNet.plist refers only to Bonjour
com.apple.iChat.StatusMessages.plist only holds the Saved Status messages in Buddy Lists and is actually nothing to do with iMessages
com.apple.iChat.LSSharedFileList.plist only stores the Recent Chats list which the Messages app In Yosemite does not display.
com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.madrid.plist is the one that holds the Apple ID and the iPhone Numbers and any other aliases you have linked to your account.
As you can see it does not mention iChat or iMessages. It holds nothing about how it connects to specific contacts.
The com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.ess.plist seems to contain the same info (but always has an older Modified date and never "today" to say it is in use.
com.apple.imessage.bag.plist only lists the Server you are connected to for iMessages.
Most likely it is going to be one of these
These are some of the ones relating to the SOAgent support app.
As you can see by the Path Bar across the bottom these are deep in the Containers folder which is used by the Sandbox protection process.
Some of the .plist items are Aliases to the originals in ~/Library/Preferences but the ones highlighted are actual .plists.
A quick look at them in Xcode does not reveal anything.
com.apple.messageshelper.AccountInfoController.plist looks promising but might only be linked to Buddy Lists rather than the iMessages account.
I don't think you are missing any Setting in Messages app or the iMessages account itself (or menu items that only refer to that part of the app.).
However with a lack of testing here on this side I also have no suggestions.
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