Those desiring memorials are suggested to the Cumberland Furnace Cemetery Fund.
Mable Lee Rector Daniel, age 101, lifelong resident of Dickson County and widow of the late Herman Richard “Sank” Daniel died February 13, 2024, in a Nashville hospital after a short stay.
She was born on June 19, 1922, to James Anthony and Annie May Patrick Rector. She was a graduate of Charlotte High School Class of 1932. She was the sole surviving member of her class, always enjoying her class reunions each year, especially with her classmate Mrs. Evelyn Lee.
Mable was an employee of Bell South, South Central Bell, and AT&T. She worked as a switch board operator for Bell South and South-Central Bell in Dickson later transferring to Clarksville as an installer when the switchboard phased out in Dickson until her retirement in 1980 in anticipation of the birth of her second grandson.
After retirement she stayed busy with grandchildren, siblings and baking sour dough bread to sell at the Dickson County Cancer Society annual auction. In addition, in their latter years, Mable and Sank enjoyed traveling and cruising with friends and later she began to crochet prayer shawls for her church, Cumberland Furnace United Methodist Church, crocheting over 400 shawls.
Mable was a lifelong Methodist, member of the Iron Lodge, Order of the Eastern Star and served as Grand Esther. She was preceded in death by her husband of 48 years, Herman Richard “Sank” Daniel and her 11 siblings, Oscar, Binkley, Audrey, Austin, Leslie, Lucille, Mary, Johnny, Sara, Jane, and Buddy.
Mable is survived by her daughter Martha (Dan), grandsons, Josh (Faith) and Adam, her precious great granddaughter Emery Jane. Several nieces and nephews.
