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Muriel Knight 
(January 31, 1915 - April 11, 2012) 

Funeral Services for Mrs. Willie Muriel Knight will be held on Saturday, April 
14, 2012, at 11:00a.m. at Bowers Funeral Home in Teague. Bro. Kenneth Henbest 
will officiate. Interment will follow the services at Union Cemetery near 
Freestone.

Visitation will be held prior to the services on Saturday beginning at 10:00a.m. 
at the funeral home.

Mrs. Knight passed away on Wednesday, April 11, 2012, at the Regent Care Center 
in Woodway with her family by her side. She was born on January 31, 1915 in 
Freestone to Will and Voila Shelton. Muriel married Lloyd H. Knight of Freestone 
in 1932. Her entire life was spent in the community of Freestone except for 
three years during World War II when she and Lloyd lived in San Antonio and 
Houston. After the war, they packed their bags and moved back to Freestone and 
bought the general store. The Freestone Post Office was located in the general 
store and Muriel became the Postmaster and remained as such until retiring in 
1975. After her retirement she devoted her time to helping her husband raise 
cattle on their ranch. Mrs. Knight was a member of the Freestone Church of 
Christ and was baptized in the gin tank at the age of twelve. Her mother passed 
on to her the responsibility for preparing the communion tray and Muriel carried 
that responsibility for sixty-one years until she became ill with cancer. Mrs. 
Knight was one of the founders of the Freestone Community Center and remained 
very active in volunteering for events there. She was famous for her sugar 
cookies, peach cobbler (with Blue Bell ice cream on top) and her love for 
cooking. She was an avid gardener and she thoroughly enjoyed life and the 
people of the community. She will be dearly missed by all.

She is survived by one daughter, Nelma Lloyd Wilson & husband Eugene of Waco; 
one granddaughter, Vicki Kathleen Clark & husband Dennis of North Richland 
Hills; one grandson, Reggie Black of Dallas; two great-grandsons, Nicholas & 
wife Jennifer of New York and Christopher and Idalou Barnum of Fort Worth; one 
great-granddaughter, Jessica Hutchison & husband Tiger of Fort Worth; five 
great-great-grandsons, Austin Barnum, Ethan and Christian Barnum, and Cole and 
Carter Hutchison; numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and a host of friends.

Mrs. Knight was preceded in death by her husband, Lloyd H. Knight, her parents, 
Will & Viola Shelton, and one brother, Aldridge Shelton.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to the Freestone 5-F 
Club or the Saturday Night Monthly Musicals, c/o Freestone Community Center, 
739 F. M. 80 South, Donie, TX 75838 or to the Freestone Church of Christ, P.O. 
Box 324, Teague, TX 75860.