I ran across this photo from 2010, when my mom and dad went with us to Arkansas for vacation. We were able to stop in Jefferson City TN on the way back to SC and visit with my mother's sister (Aunt Louise) . She is in Heaven now (she died May 31st) and so is my dad(he died July 2018)
We miss them both.
"So it's the laughter,
We will remember,
Whenever we remember the way we were"
Mary Louise McDaniel, age 94, of Jefferson City TN, passed away on May 31, 2022. What can one say about a life well lived? Mary Louise McDaniel (affectionately known to her sons as Mama Mac, mom and to coworkers as Ms. Mac) lived a long and fruitful life. She was born on September 25, 1927 to the Reverend John and Ethel Rice in the town of Whitney, South Carolina. She worked in a cotton mill while she was in high school to help support her parents. She was able to get a work scholarship to attend nursing college in Spartanburg, South Carolina and attended school from 1947 to 1951 (three and a half years). She said college was tough, especially chemistry and anatomy, but she worked hard and made good grades. She received her state board license as a RN in 1951. She moved to Jefferson City, TN in 1952 and started working at Jefferson Memorial Hospital until her retirement in 1990. After retirement, she was able to travel the world a bit. She said her favorite places were California and Hawaii, but she mostly enjoyed working in the garden and growing flowers at her home on Julienne Drive.
Louise loved her children and prayed for them constantly as they grew up in the tumultuous 60's and 70's and continued to pray for them until the day she died on May 31, 2022. Louise would want you to know that she was a Christian, loved her church community at Faith Baptist Church and that she is in a much better place now. Godspeed mom. We will miss you greatly.
She is preceded in death by parents, John and Ethel Rice; husband James McDaniel and brother James Rice. She is survived by her sons, Michael Edgar Greene and Patrick Anthony Greene; granddaughters Stephanie Atkinson and Shanna Atkinson; great grandchildren Sparrow, Sage and River, and her sister Martha Rice Franklin (from Cowpens,SC).
Graveside service 12:00 PM Saturday, June 4 2022 at Mitchell Springs Cemetery with Rev. John Pinkston officiating. Family and friends may call at their convenience Friday June 3 2022 from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm at Fielden Funeral Home in New Market TN.
