Edna Hazel Temple

Services for Edna Hazel Temple will be held Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 2 p.m. in the Reese Cemetery on Hwy 175, in Jacksonville. A gathering of friends and family will be held Wednesday, June 13 at the Claybar Kelley-Watkins Funeral Home in Beaumont from 5 - 7 p.m.

Mrs. Temple, 97, was born September 4, 1909 in Cherokee County to John and Lola Loper and passed away June 11, 2007 at Oakwood Manor in Vidor, Texas.

She is survived by grandsons, Wayne Phillips and wife Micki of Vidor and David Phillips and wife Joyce of Pt. Neches; five great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband R. B. “Bart” Temple; daughter Virginia Ruth Temple and daughter and son-in-law, Edna Sue and Carl L. “Buddy” Phillips.

Information from The Jacksonville Daily Progress