Dorothy Page Poole

Services for Dorothy Page Poole, 86, of Avinger will be 2:00 p.m. Friday, April 18, 2014 at the First Baptist Church in Avinger with Bro. Dennis Gibbons and Bro. Les Colley officiating. Burial will follow in Avinger Cemetery under the direction of Reeder-Davis Funeral Home of Hughes Springs. There will be a time of visitation from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm, Thursday at the funeral home. Mrs. Poole was born May 5, 1927 in Hephzibah Community in Columbia County, Arkansas to Vincil Jerome and Ella Maloch Page. She passed away away April 14, 2014 in Hughes Springs. She retired from Daingerfield/Lone Star ISD in 1990 and worked in the Avinger ISD from 1990 until 2002. Mrs. Poole graduated from East Texas Baptist University in 1948 with a BS in Speech and English and then graduated from East Texas State in Commerce with a masters degrees in elementary education, and guidance and counseling. She was a member of the Morris County Retired Teachers association, TSTA, Delta Kappa Gamma Teachers Sorority, Avinger Lions Club, Womens Missionary Union, and a member of the First Baptist Church in Avinger where she taught the Dorcus Sunday School class. She is survived by her husband of 66 years, Bud Poole of Avinger, one son; Steven Ross Poole and his wife, Melody Putnam of Austin, one daughter, Vicki Poole Hull and her husband, David of Austin, and three grandchildren; Katherine Anne Hull, Emily Jean Hull and Cody Dawson Poole all of Austin. There will be a time of visitation from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm, Thursday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Dorothy Page Poole Speech Endowment, C/O East Texas Baptist University, One Tiger Drive, Marshall, TX 75670.