In Memory

James Duane McDaniel - Class Of 1961

James Duane "Mac" McDaniel died December 13, 2007.  He was buried at the Long Branch Cemetery.  He was born on Oct. 7, 1943, in Blackwell Hospital in Gorman to James Elmer McDaniel and Katha Rlee Lovell McDaniel.  He joined the Army in August 1962.  He married Nelda Hogan on October 14, 1966, in Carbon.  He worked as a heavy equipment operator for many construction and oilfield companies.  After suffering a severe back injury in a truck wreck in 1987, he returned to farming peanuts and raising cattle.  He was preceded in death by his father and granddaughter, Audrey Brean Davis, of Carbon. He is survived by his wife; one daughter, Shana Davis and husband, Wayne, of Carbon; one son, John Michael McDaniel, and wife, Ginger of Malakoff and mother, Rlee, of Carbon.