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Edna Orvilla (Bryant) Cole
Edna Orvilla Bryant Cole, 88, of Dallas passed away Friday, Jan. 12, 2001.

Visitation will be 3 to 4 p.m. today at Sparkman/Hillcrest Funeral Home, 7405 
W. Northwest Hwy in Dallas. 

Services will be 10 a.m. Monday at Sparkman/Hillcrest Funeral Home Chapel. 
Interment will follow at 12:30 p.m. at Birdston Cemetery in Streetman. 

The eldest of four children, Mrs. Cole was born Dec. 6, 1912 in Streetman to 
Nora Lee Evarts and Ernest Cam Bryant. She attended North Texas State College
before marrying her lifelong sweetheart, Robert E. Cole, also of Streetman. 

She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert E. Cole; her parents; and one 
brother, Alvis Edward Bryant. 

Mrs. Cole is survived by daughter and son-in-law, Barbara Jean Cole and Dennis
Wayne Rainoshek of Houston; two grandsons and granddaughter-in-law, David Wayne
and Pamela Rainoshek and Justin David Sheffield Rainoshek, all of Houston; two
brothers, Ernest Cam Bryant Jr of Dallas and Thomas J. Bryant; brother-in-law,
Jerry Cole and wife Barbara of Palestine; and four nieces and nephews. 

Arrangements by Sparkman/Hillcrest Funeral Home, Dallas.