Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Corsicana Daily Sun - July 30, 2005 edition

Mary Edith (Livingston) Carroll

Our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister and aunt went to be
with her Lord on Friday, July 29, 2005 at Heritage Oaks Retirement Village in
Corsicana.

Services will be on Sunday, July 31 at 3 p.m. at Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home
in Fairfield. Visitation will be today from 6 to 8 p.m. in Fairfield. Burial
will follow at Birdston Cemetery in Streetman.

Edith was born Jan. 11, 1917 in Eureka to Mary Ella McNair and Homer Melvin
Livingston. She grew up in the Cade community and attended Cade school. She
graduated from Streetman High School in 1933. In 1935 she married Gordon
Alexander Carroll. Edith was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in
Streetman where she was a Sunday school teacher and was one of two women made
elders in the church in 1976.
She is survived by three children: daughter Deanne Vandiver and husband Don of
Ennis, son Donald Carroll and wife Linda and daughter Sherrie Minze and husband
Glenn, all of Streetman. Grandchildren: Kerry Vandiver and wife Karen; Steve
Vandiver and wife Teresa; Jeff Minze and wife Tammy; Bret Carroll and wife
Stephanie; Jody Minze and wife Teresa; Amy Farrar and husband Chad; Gene Minze
and wife Kelli. Great-grandchildren: Christi Oakes and husband Tommy; Courtney,
Chase and Chelsea Vandiver; Cooper Vandiver; Cullen, Colby, Morgan, Mason and
Aaron Minze; Jake, Jordan and Josh Farrar and Cade Carroll. Sister: Nell Milner
and husband Harris Wilson of Streetman; and brothers-in-law Bill Emerson of
Streetman and Richard Steele of Tyler; and many nieces and nephews.

Preceded in death by her parents, her husband, siblings: Durward Schley,
Frances, Vee, Florene, Johnnie and Kenneth.

Arrangements by Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home.