To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Texas Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Texas, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 7/22/23 • Approved: 7/22/23 • Last Updated: 7/25/23 • R577730-G577729-S3
Lee James Freeze
November 25, 1928-March 28, 2011
Rueleen Daggs Freeze
October 21, 1930-January 4, 2021
*Photo, courtesy M. Bishop
*Obituary Rueleen Daggs Freeze
Rueleen Freeze was born Oct. 21, 1930 at Minco, Oklahoma to Ruel Daggs and Seona (Rinn) Daggs. She was the middle child of five children. Rueleen grew up on a farm near Chickasha, Oklahoma and graduated from the Oklahoma College for Women in Chickasha with a Bachelor's degree in teaching.
Rueleen's first teaching job was at Bradley, Oklahoma where she taught home economics. It was at Bradley that she met the love of her life, Lee Freeze, who was teaching industrial arts and coaching the high school boys' basketball team. They were joined in marriage on June 4, 1955.
Lee and Rueleen later continued their education at the University of Oklahoma where Rueleen received her Master's in Education. They then moved to Lamesa, Texas and taught school there for a number of years. After a while they moved to Brownsfield, Texas. They taught there until they moved to Big Spring in 1962. Rueleen taught school at Kentwood and Marcy Elementary Schools until she retired in 1991.
Rueleen was involved in many activities besides teaching. She loved to cook, quilt, sew, and can fresh vegetables from her garden. She excelled at taking great care of her family and home. She was also very involved in her church, First United Methodist in downtown Big Spring, and was active in a number of social activities, including Bunco, Square Dancing, and a Bridge club.
Preceded in death by her husband Lee James Freeze, and her sister and one brother, Vera Mae Eubank and Don Daggs, she is survived by her three sons, Jay Freeze of Big Spring, Jim Freeze and wife Michelle of Prosper, Texas, Tim Freeze and wife Allison of Orlando, FL; her four grandchildren, Christian Freeze of Austin, Jordan Sender and husband Ben of Conway, AR, and Chandler and Harrison Freeze of Orlando, FL; and her two brothers, David Daggs and wife Betty of Edmond, OK and Jim Daggs and wife Gae of Aspen, CO, along with many other relatives and a host of friends.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m., Saturday, January 9, 2021, at the Myers and Smith Funeral Home and Chapel. Interment will follow at Trinity Memorial Park in Big Spring. Masks and social distancing will be required.
Arrangements are by Myers & Smith Funeral Home. Pay your respects online at www.myersandsmth.com
Published by Big Spring Herald from Jan. 10 to Jan. 11, 2021.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bigspringherald/name/rueleen-freeze-obituary?id=7806839
Contributed on 7/22/23 by neldapat
Email This Contributor
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 577730