Emma Lee (Phillips) Minefee 

Services for Emma Lee Minefee, 94, of Murchison are scheduled for 2 p.m.
Saturday at Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home in Corsicana with the Rev. Cliff
Cooper officiating. 

Burial will follow at Dresden Cemetery under the direction of Griffin-Roughton
Funeral Home of Corsicana. 

Mrs. Minefee died Nov. 21, 2001, in Athens. 

She was born Nov. 14, 1907, in Freestone County to William Davis Phillips and
Oda Alice Phillips. 

After finishing school in the Fairfield area, Mrs. Minefee moved with her
family to Navarro County. She married Joe W. Minefee Oct. 9, 1943. After
raising her family, she worked as a nurse aide and also did private nursing.
She was a member of Barry Baptist Church. 

Mrs. Minefee was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Joe W. Minefee, in
1967; infant son in December 1944; son, Joseph Minefee, in 1984; brothers,
William and Taylor Phillips; and sister, Frances M. O'Neil. 

Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, James and Karri Minefee of
Teague; daughters and sons-in-law, Oda Lee and Ray Nutt of Murchison, Geraldean
and Ralph Putman of Navarro Mills and LaVerne and Earl Fullerton of Corsicana;
14 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren. 

Pallbearers will be grandsons and nephews Bryan Nutt, Cliff Minefee, Jimmy
Putman, Edward Fullerton, Joe Minefee, Travis O'Neil and Orville O'Neil. 

Honorary pallbearers will be grandsons-in-law and great-grandsons. 

Family will receive friends from 6-9 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.