Gail Katherine (Craig) Mitchell, 77, of Orange, Texas, passed away at her home, surrounded by her loving family, on Saturday, July 15, 2017.
Gail was born on Tuesday, October 3, 1939, in Malvern, Arkansas, to Sadie Lee (Brewer) and Ted Allen Craig.
Her family moved several times between Arkansas and Texas, before finally settling in southeast Texas. For 59 years, Gail was married to her husband, Jimmie Mitchell, and together they raised a beautiful family.
Gail was a proud Christian woman of the Baptist faith, who made sure her children knew the Lord, and was proud to have been baptized at McDonald Baptist Church. She was a very talented seamstress who not only made sure to make her husband’s favorite shirts, but also enjoyed working with the garments for Lamar University’s Drama Department and Franklins. When she could, Gail loved to Bass fish and she was never without her motor oil colored worm. Gail was a very patient and creative woman who was welcoming to all and never met a stranger. Her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great great-granchild were the light of her life. Gail was always happy to play on the floor with them and help them to create their own imagination. She was a wife, mother, sister, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great grandmother, and friend, who will loved, and missed, by all who knew her.
Proceeding Gail in death are her parents, Ted and Sadie Craig; daughter, Kathy Louise Mendoza; brother, Floyd Allen Craig; sisters, Jeanet Whiley and Iris Allene Yokum; and sister-in-law, Gladys Juanita Rodgers.
Those who will cherish her memory most are her loving husband, Jimmie Mitchell; sons, Henry Luther Mitchell and wife, Cindy, Jesse Lee Mitchell and wife, Christie and Ted Allen Mitchell; daughters, Juanita Lorance Denham and Janice Marie Harris and husband, Doug; brothers, James David “Shine” Craig, Fred Craig and Bennie Hugh Craig; sisters, Janice Archer, Edith Joanne Reese, Rebecca Lee Rysemus and Donna Lynn Irby; seventeen grandchildren; twenty eight great-grandchildren, give or take a few, with a few bonus ones; one great great-grandchild and many members of extended family.
Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Orange, Texas
Dorman Funeral Home, Orange, Texas
Gail was born on Tuesday, October 3, 1939, in Malvern, Arkansas, to Sadie Lee (Brewer) and Ted Allen Craig.
Her family moved several times between Arkansas and Texas, before finally settling in southeast Texas. For 59 years, Gail was married to her husband, Jimmie Mitchell, and together they raised a beautiful family.
Gail was a proud Christian woman of the Baptist faith, who made sure her children knew the Lord, and was proud to have been baptized at McDonald Baptist Church. She was a very talented seamstress who not only made sure to make her husband’s favorite shirts, but also enjoyed working with the garments for Lamar University’s Drama Department and Franklins. When she could, Gail loved to Bass fish and she was never without her motor oil colored worm. Gail was a very patient and creative woman who was welcoming to all and never met a stranger. Her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great great-granchild were the light of her life. Gail was always happy to play on the floor with them and help them to create their own imagination. She was a wife, mother, sister, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great grandmother, and friend, who will loved, and missed, by all who knew her.
Proceeding Gail in death are her parents, Ted and Sadie Craig; daughter, Kathy Louise Mendoza; brother, Floyd Allen Craig; sisters, Jeanet Whiley and Iris Allene Yokum; and sister-in-law, Gladys Juanita Rodgers.
Those who will cherish her memory most are her loving husband, Jimmie Mitchell; sons, Henry Luther Mitchell and wife, Cindy, Jesse Lee Mitchell and wife, Christie and Ted Allen Mitchell; daughters, Juanita Lorance Denham and Janice Marie Harris and husband, Doug; brothers, James David “Shine” Craig, Fred Craig and Bennie Hugh Craig; sisters, Janice Archer, Edith Joanne Reese, Rebecca Lee Rysemus and Donna Lynn Irby; seventeen grandchildren; twenty eight great-grandchildren, give or take a few, with a few bonus ones; one great great-grandchild and many members of extended family.
Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Orange, Texas
Dorman Funeral Home, Orange, Texas
Gail Katherine (Craig) Mitchell, 77, of Orange, Texas, passed away at her home, surrounded by her loving family, on Saturday, July 15, 2017.
Gail was born on Tuesday, October 3, 1939, in Malvern, Arkansas, to Sadie Lee (Brewer) and Ted Allen Craig.
Her family moved several times between Arkansas and Texas, before finally settling in southeast Texas. For 59 years, Gail was married to her husband, Jimmie Mitchell, and together they raised a beautiful family.
Gail was a proud Christian woman of the Baptist faith, who made sure her children knew the Lord, and was proud to have been baptized at McDonald Baptist Church. She was a very talented seamstress who not only made sure to make her husband’s favorite shirts, but also enjoyed working with the garments for Lamar University’s Drama Department and Franklins. When she could, Gail loved to Bass fish and she was never without her motor oil colored worm. Gail was a very patient and creative woman who was welcoming to all and never met a stranger. Her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great great-granchild were the light of her life. Gail was always happy to play on the floor with them and help them to create their own imagination. She was a wife, mother, sister, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great grandmother, and friend, who will loved, and missed, by all who knew her.
Proceeding Gail in death are her parents, Ted and Sadie Craig; daughter, Kathy Louise Mendoza; brother, Floyd Allen Craig; sisters, Jeanet Whiley and Iris Allene Yokum; and sister-in-law, Gladys Juanita Rodgers.
Those who will cherish her memory most are her loving husband, Jimmie Mitchell; sons, Henry Luther Mitchell and wife, Cindy, Jesse Lee Mitchell and wife, Christie and Ted Allen Mitchell; daughters, Juanita Lorance Denham and Janice Marie Harris and husband, Doug; brothers, James David “Shine” Craig, Fred Craig and Bennie Hugh Craig; sisters, Janice Archer, Edith Joanne Reese, Rebecca Lee Rysemus and Donna Lynn Irby; seventeen grandchildren; twenty eight great-grandchildren, give or take a few, with a few bonus ones; one great great-grandchild and many members of extended family.
Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Orange, Texas
Dorman Funeral Home, Orange, Texas
Gail was born on Tuesday, October 3, 1939, in Malvern, Arkansas, to Sadie Lee (Brewer) and Ted Allen Craig.
Her family moved several times between Arkansas and Texas, before finally settling in southeast Texas. For 59 years, Gail was married to her husband, Jimmie Mitchell, and together they raised a beautiful family.
Gail was a proud Christian woman of the Baptist faith, who made sure her children knew the Lord, and was proud to have been baptized at McDonald Baptist Church. She was a very talented seamstress who not only made sure to make her husband’s favorite shirts, but also enjoyed working with the garments for Lamar University’s Drama Department and Franklins. When she could, Gail loved to Bass fish and she was never without her motor oil colored worm. Gail was a very patient and creative woman who was welcoming to all and never met a stranger. Her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great great-granchild were the light of her life. Gail was always happy to play on the floor with them and help them to create their own imagination. She was a wife, mother, sister, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great grandmother, and friend, who will loved, and missed, by all who knew her.
Proceeding Gail in death are her parents, Ted and Sadie Craig; daughter, Kathy Louise Mendoza; brother, Floyd Allen Craig; sisters, Jeanet Whiley and Iris Allene Yokum; and sister-in-law, Gladys Juanita Rodgers.
Those who will cherish her memory most are her loving husband, Jimmie Mitchell; sons, Henry Luther Mitchell and wife, Cindy, Jesse Lee Mitchell and wife, Christie and Ted Allen Mitchell; daughters, Juanita Lorance Denham and Janice Marie Harris and husband, Doug; brothers, James David “Shine” Craig, Fred Craig and Bennie Hugh Craig; sisters, Janice Archer, Edith Joanne Reese, Rebecca Lee Rysemus and Donna Lynn Irby; seventeen grandchildren; twenty eight great-grandchildren, give or take a few, with a few bonus ones; one great great-grandchild and many members of extended family.
Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Orange, Texas
Dorman Funeral Home, Orange, Texas
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