Estelle Jane Sloan McDaniel's Obituary
Estelle Jane Sloan McDaniel went to be with the Lord on January 27, 2016 at Hiram Shaddock Geriatric Center in Mountain Home, AR at the age of 91. She was born in Memhis, TN on August 8, 1924 at St. Joseph Hospital. She graduated Southside High School and then moved to Nashville to attend an art college. She received a 4 year degree in all aspects of art and had a long and properous career in drawing. She was a fashion, furniture and jewelry artist for Lowenstein’s, Gerber’s, Goldsmith’s, Steinmart and many of the illustrations we all saw in this paper, she drew. She married James Madison McDaniel, Jr. in Memphis on August 28, 1948. She often said that early on she knew she was meant to be with him. She is survived by their children, Johnny Alfred McDaniel (Vicki) of Fairview, TN. Dr. James Madison McDaniel III (Dani) of Mountain Home, AR. Estelle Luann McDaniel Watson of Duluth, GA, and Duane Sloan McDaniel of Memphis, TN. Her five grandchildren are Darah McDaniel-Chandler (Blake) of Memphis, Larkin Dunedin Sisson (Beau) of Russellville, AR, Bonnie Estelle Watson of Snellville, GA, James Madison McDaniel IV of Mountain Home, AR and Lorelei Estelle McDaniel of Fairview, TN. She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents and her one brother, Herbert Gray Sloan. The funeral will be at 2pm on Sunday, Jan 31 at Memorial Park in Memphis, with family receiving visitors from 12:30pm to time of services with burial to follow. She loved her family. She especially loved family geneology. She was member and regent of the Magna Charta Society, president of the Adam-Dale chapter of the DAR, Early Settlers of Memphis, Colonial Dames, Jamestown Society, and was a Huguenot. She was a direct descendent of Catherine the Great. She was a contributing author of the book “Early Families of the Memphis Area”. As a child, her father William Absalom Sloan, worked for the railroad during the depression and they traveled everywhere the rails went free along with her mother, Estelle Lockhart Gray Sloan. She was a member of Bethany Parkway Methodist Church, Whitehaven Methodist Church, and Bellevue Baptist Church. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Memorial Park Funeral Home and Cemetery, 5668 Poplar Ave. Memphis, TN 38119. “Celebrating Life… Behind the Stone Wall”
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