Mexia Daily News - May 4, 2004 edition

Vi Cockerell

TEAGUE - Funeral services for Mrs. Vi Cockerell, 87, will be conducted Thursday
morning at 10 o'clock in Ricks-Bowers Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be that
afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Groveton Cemetery at Groveton. The Rev. Paul
Gauntt, pastor of Eighth Avenue Baptist Church, will officiate.

Mrs. Cockerell, born May 11, 1916, in Apple Springs, died Monday in Manor
Nursing Home-Mexia. She had resided in this area since 1981, and was a member
of Round Prairie Baptist Church, a member of the VFW Post 5872 Ladies Auxiliary
in Fairfield, and had managed the North Sheppard Bowling Lanes in Houston for
20 years.

Mrs. Cockerell was known as a great gardener, loved growing flowers, canning
and putting up food, and cooking for her large family. She loved her grandkids.

The family will receive visitors Wednesday evening from 6 until 8 o'clock at
the funeral home.

Mrs. Cockerell was preceded in death by two husbands - W.J. (Dude) Rasbeary and
Robert Cockerell; and by a son, William Cullen Rasbeary.

Surviving are her children - Ann Sissell of Lake Mexia, Joyce Webb and husband
Frank of Luling, Carolyn Conley and husband Leon of Nacogdoches, Ron Rasbeary
and wife Jackie of Teague, Donna Northcutt of Fairfield and Debra Robertson of
Palestine; eight step-children and their families - Danny, Dale, Donnie and
David Cockerell, Diane Griffin, Deborah Ryan, Jerry Willett and Paula Swinburn;
20 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren; two sisters, Juanell Womack
of Lufkin and Evelyn Calloway of Arlington.