Dorothy Page Pool

Poole
Services for Dorothy Page Poole, 86, of Avinger will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, April 18, at the First Baptist Church in Avinger with Dennis Gibbons and Les Colley officiating. Burial will follow in Avinger Cemetery under the direction of Reeder-Davis Funeral Home. There will be a time of visitation will be from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m., Thursday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Poole was born May 5, 1927, in Emerson, Ark. to Vincil Jerome and Ella Maloch Page and died April 14, in Hughes Springs.
She retired from Daingerfield-Lone Star Independent School District in 1990 and worked in the Avinger ISD from 1990 until 2002.
Mrs. Poole graduated from East Texas Baptist University in 1948 with a bachelor of science in speech and English and then graduated from East Texas State in Commerce with 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 Lion’s Club, Women’s Missionary Union, and a member of the First Baptist Church in Avinger where she taught the Dorcus Sunday School class.
Survivors include her husband of 66 years, Bud Poole of Avinger; one son; Steven Ross Poole and his wife, Melody Putman of Austin, one daughter, Vicky Poole Hull and her husband, David of Austin; and three grandchildren; Katherine Anne Hull, Emily Jean Hull and Cody Dawson Poole all of Austin.
The family requests in lieu of flowers, donations be made to “scholarship fund.”
Online condolences may be left at www.reeder-davis.com.