Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



Mexia Daily News - Aug. 12, 2003 edition


Jarah Lee Daniels Proctor English

Funeral services for Mrs. Jarah Lee English, 81, of Fairfield, were held Monday
morning at 11 o'clock in True Vine DOXIA Center, Fairfield. Burial was in
Fairfield Baptist Cemetery, under direction of Emanuel Funeral Home of Teague.

She died Thursday in Parkview Regional Hospital, and was born Nov. 12, 1921, in
Fairfield. She attended Butler Community School and was married in 1942 to Carl
Daniels. She later was married to Frank Proctor, and then to Clinton English,
who died June 17 of this year.

Mrs. English was a retired employee of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, and
had been an active member of Pyburn No. 1 Church of God in Christ at Fairfield.
She also was a member of the Magnolia Burial Club.

She was preceded in death by all three of her husbands; a daughter, Ruth
Daniels Moore; three brothers, O.D. Turner, Jr., another Turner and Justin
Turner; and by four sisters, Gladys Barnes, Tilda Fantroy, Mecadee Turner and
Ana Lee Cooper.

Surviving are an adopted daughter, P.A. Rischer of Fairfield; a brother, Hugh
Turner of Dallas; a sister, Bessie M. Keeton of Houston; 54 grandchildren and
58 great-grandchildren; 11 step-children; many nieces and nephews; two
daughters, Mary Shed and Cynthia Shed, both of Fairfield; and seven sons, Carl
Daniels, Jr., and Harold Daniels, both of Fairfield, Ralph Daniels of
Lancaster, Howard Daniels, William Daniels and Robert Daniels, all of Dallas
and Jimmy Daniels of Mexia.