MAYCELL E. BLACK

Funeral services for Maycell E. Black, 88, of Tyler, formerly of Rusk, was at 10 a.m. Monday at the First Congregational Methodist Church with the Rev. Ray Robbins officiating. Burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery under the direction of Wallace- Thompson Funeral Home.

Mrs. Black died June 16. She was born Jan. 16, 1919, in Converse, La., to the late Oliver and Ada Daugherty Price. She was one of five children.

She was a resident of Rusk for 50 years and formerly lived in Port Arthur from 1936 to 1951. She moved to Tyler in 2002. She retired in 1981 after 25 years as secretary for the County Superintendent of Schools and Cherokee County Teacher's Federal Credit Union. She was the local registrar for death certificates. In 1998 she received her 50-year pin from Port Arthur Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. She was the Good Samaritan director for several years in Rusk. She was a member of the Rusk First Congregational Methodist Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Lydell "Dell" Black in 1983.

Survivors are a daughter and son-in-law, Lynda and Burley Kinsel of Lake Palestine; two granddaughters and their husbands, Sheila and David Mogle and Melanie and Robby Leach, all of Whitehouse; great-grandchildren, Courtney and Cody Mogle and Skylar Leach, all of Whitehouse; four nieces, Patty Oltremari, Helen Robertson, Mary Ada Russell and Doris King; nephew, Jeff Price; and all of the nephew's and niece's spouses, children and grandchildren. Pallbearers were David Mogle, Robby Leach, Cody Mogle, Jerry Oltremari, Jeff Price and Mike Russell.

Memorials may be made to the First Congregational Methodist Church, Route 5, Box 288A, Rusk 75785.

June 20, 2007

Information from The Cherokeean Herald