Mexia Daily News - Nov. 22, 2003 edition

Nettie Ruth Blakeley James

TEAGUE - Funeral services for Mrs. Nettie Ruth Blakeley James, 62, of Fort
Worth, will be this afternoon at 1 o'clock in Moore's Angelic Funeral Home
Chapel. The Rev. Roger Hunter, pastor of St. James United Methodist Church, and
Dr. C.W. Gillespie, pastor of Concord Missionary Baptist Church-Fort Worth,
were to officiate. Burial will be in Grove Island Cemetery.

Mrs. James, who died Sunday in John Peter Smith Hospital-Fort Worth, was born
Sept. 18, 1941, in Freestone County. She formerly resided in Teague and in the
Furney-Richardson community.

A member of Titus UMC, Mrs. James was a Health Care worker and a Licensed
Beautician. She attended elementary and high schools in Furney-Richardson, and
also attended Prairie View A&M University.

Surviving are a daughter, Gidget LaDawn Cooper and husband Marcus of Fort
Worth; her mothers - Ella Savannah Edwards of Fort Worth, and Nell Blakeley of
Teague; her father, Willie D. Carter of Fort Worth; four sisters, Phyllis Jean
Marshall and Hattie Mae Carter, both of Fort Worth, Celestine Jones of Teague
and Christine Carter of Mexia; a stepsister, Joyce Jacobs of Houston; three
brothers, Willie P. Love and wife Dorothy of Dallas, John Edward Carter and
wife Katie of Teague, and Romie Lee Edwards, Jr., of Fort Worth; two aunts,
Savannah Glasco and Ruby Branch, both of Teague; and a favorite cousin, Bria
Stokes of DeSoto.

Pallbearers are Michael Carter, James Jackson, Brandon Carter, Michael
Henderson, Corey Marshall, Michael Morgan, Fred Lewis and McKenzie Jackson.