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Frankie Onaleta Russell West
18 Mar 1926 – 7 Nov 2015
| Birth | 18 Mar 1926 |
| Death | 7 Nov 2015 |
| Cemetery | McAdams Cemetery Crabbs Prairie , Walker County , Texas , USA |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155461396 |
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Frankie Onaleta West-Davis, 89, of Hardinsburg, Kentucky, passed away on November 7, 2015. Burial will be in McAdams Cemetery near Huntsville, Texas. Frankie was born at home in Walker County, Texas, outside Huntsville, Texas, to the late Carl Andrew and Frankie Catherine Wilson Russell, the fifth of seven siblings. Her parents taught school and in addition, her father ministered to migrant farm workers, frequently moving his family back and forth between East and West Texas in an old model T truck that could only back up steep hills. She graduated from high school in Eldorado, Texas, but interrupted further education to work for the war effort munitions factory in San Antonio. She later transferred to work near the family home in Baytown, Texas. She often used a quote from her secretarial teacher, "it was the duty of every young woman to go to work to support the war effort." She married Wayne Garland West on August 26, 1946, and to this union were born three children, Gregory Alan, Claudia Ann, and Philip Michael. She was a homemaker while he worked for Sears and Roebuck Company in Houston, Waco, and Orange, Texas, and Lake Charles, Louisiana. She attended Lee College in Baytown, Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, earning her Associate degree. She worked in her sister's accounting and real estate office and as a substitute teacher. After the death of Wayne in 1996, she married Otis Louis Davis, a friend from high school, in January, 1998. He passed away in February 14, 2013. In addition to her role as a homemaker and mother, she was involved in the life of her communities. She served on the altar guilds of the various Episcopal parishes where she lived and was a member of Daughters of the King. She served as president of the Parent Teacher's Association while her children were in school and was a Girl Scout leader. She introduced Girl Scouting to Orange, Texas, having started the first troop there. She served twice as president of her chapter of The Daughters of 1812, and was also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of the Texas Revolution, the Magna Carta Dames and the Jamestown Society. She was preceded in death by her son, Phillip; brothers, Wilson and John; and sisters: Elon, Mattie, and Carla, and their spouses. Survivors include her son, Dr. Gregory West and his wife, Cynthia, of Brandenburg, Kentucky; daughter, Claudia Duke and her husband, Clifton, of Houston; grandchildren: Lindsay, and Allison and Kevin Duke, all from Houston, and Benjamin West and his wife, Carissa, of St. Louis, Missouri; great-granddaughter, Ramona West, of St. Louis, Missouri; younger sister, Maurice Wilson, of Houston; a sister-in-law, Mildred East, of Caldwell Texas; other relatives and many friends. Waco Tribune-Herald: 11/28/2015...P20
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- Wilson Lee Russell 1913–1999 FaG
- Elon Jeanette Russell Reichenau 1918–2003 FaG
- Mattie Alice "Pat" Russell Pearson 1920–2008 FaG
- John Robin Russell 1927–1959 FaG
- Carla Anita Russell Jones 1928–1988 FaG
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