Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



The Teague Chronicle - November 10, 2011 edition

ETHEL LEE DEAN

Graveside services for Mrs. Ethel Lee Dean, 93, were held on Friday, November 
4, 2011, at Liberty Hill-Taylor Cemetery in Farmerville, LA. Bro. Larry White 
officiated.

Ethel was born on December 7, 1917, in Teague and graduated from Teague High
School with the Class of 1935. Mrs. Dean worked as a newspaper journalist and 
was the first female journalist to work for The Teague Chronicle. She enjoyed 
writing poems and making and sending homemade cards. Mrs. Dean was a member of
the Church of Christ. She passed away on Sunday, October 30, 2011, at the 
Teague Nursing Home.

Mrs. Dean was preceded in death by her parents, James Anderson and Minnie 
Ethel Fairly; one brother, James (Jimmy) Fairly; and one niece, Betty Fairly 
Huffman.

She is survived by two nephews, James Hugh Fairly and wife Jean of Pasadena 
and Gary Glen Fairly and wife Martha of Hemphill; one niece, Patsy Fairly 
Neale of Mesquite; numerous great-nieces and great-nephews, and cousins as 
well as her husband's numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins from Louisiana.