Tenth Generation

20238. Mary Oliver Coble was born on 18 January 1916 in Miami, Roberts Co., TX.⁴⁷¹⁵⁶ Mary died on 28 July 2011 at the age of 95 in Amarillo, Potter Co., TX and was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Tulia, Swisher Co., TX on 1 August 2011.^47157,47158

Obituary, Amarillo Globe-News, July 31, 2011

Mary Oliver Darnell, 95, of Amarillo died Thursday, July 28, 2011.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors Ivy Chapel, 2800 Paramount Blvd. Burial will be at 4 p.m. in Rose Hill Cemetery in Tulia.

Mrs. Darnell was born Jan. 18, 1916, in Miami, Texas, to Ruth Coffee Coble and Edgar Coble. She started school at San Jacinto when it opened and sixth-grade at Sam Houston when it opened. She graduated from Amarillo High School in 1934 and went on to attend WT.

She worked for Enoch’s and Shield’s Refrigeration, where she met her future husband. She married Donley Darnell, a returning war veteran, on Jan. 22, 1946. They married in the family home at 609 Tennessee St., by brother-in-law, Rodney Glasscock. They moved to the Vigo Park community. One son was born to them on June 4, 1948.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Donley, on May 13, 1988.

Survivors include a son, Donley Darnell Jr.; a sister, Merle Jo Morris of Amarillo; a sister-in-law, Allison Coble of Texarkana; and a granddaughter, Megan Darnell of Sheridan, Wyo.

Mary Oliver Coble and Donley Gray Darnell Sr. were married on 22 January 1946 in Amarillo, Randall Co., TX. Donley Gray Darnell Sr., son of R. T. Darnell and Julia , was born on 19 February 1915 in Texas. He lived unmarried and with his parents in Vigo Park, Swisher Co., TX on 2 April 1940. Donley died in Swisher Co., TX on 13 May 1988 and was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Tulia, Swisher Co., TX in May 1988 .⁴⁷¹⁵⁹

Mary Oliver Coble and Donley Gray Darnell Sr. had the following children: