From The Frankston Citizen April, 2001
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April 12, Edition
Daisy W. Tindel
Funeral services for Daisy W. Tindel, 100, of Athens were held on Thursday, April 12 at 2 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Athens with the Rev. Lynn Parker and the Rev. Richard Palmer officiating.

Burial was in the Athens City Cemetery with Carroll-Lehr Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Tindel died Monday, April 9 in an Athens hospital.

Born Oct. 17, 1900 in Grandview, Johnson County, Mrs. Tindel graduated from high school in Grandview where her father was a cotton farmer. She attended North Texas State Teachers College(now North Texas State University) in Denton where she received her teaching certificate.

Mrs. Tindel taught school before moving to Athens where her late husband Jack H. Tindel, and his father, the late James Bolen (Boley) Tindel were in the lumber business.

Mrs. Tindel was active in the First United Methodist Church and was a lifetime member of the Women's Missionary Society (now United Methodist Women). She sang in the chancel choir at the church for many years and sang soprano solos at many weddings and funerals during that time.

She was a member of the Athens chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and participated in a number of other civic activities.

In the late 1950s, she conducted play school for pre-schoolers in her home, attended by a number of present Athens residents.

She was assistant and later head librarian at the former Henderson County Memorial Library and was librarian at the Clint Murchison Memorial Library until her retirement in 1975.

Mrs. Tindel is preceded in death by her husband, former Athens assistant postmaster Jack H. Tindel; a son, Jack H. Tindel Jr.; an infant daughter; her father and mother, William A. and Ida Humphreys Woodruff; three brothers, W.A. Woodruff Jr., John Woodruff and George Woodruff; three sisters, Willie Maude Talley, Eugenia (Gene) Jones and Sue Underwood; and two nieces, Anne Talley Wilson and Mary Anice Woodruff Humes.

Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Joe W. and Ruth Brewer Tindel of Frankston; a sister, Anice Vanderlee of Austin; a brother, Joe Woodruff of Nursery; a grandson and granddaughter-in-law, Joe W. Tindel Jr. and Jennifer of Euless and a granddaughter, Carol Tindel Stegall of Athens; three great grandchildren, Jack Grady Tindel and Katie Ann Tindel of Euless and Joseph Max Stegall of Athens; and several nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers were H.B. (Slick) Alfred, Jimmy Wyrick, Jimmy Mitchell, Jim Owens, Jim McNutt and Charles A. Hawn.

Honorary pallbearers were members of the Chancel Choir and the United Methodist Women of First United Methodist Church, Athens.