Sharon Lee Axley

Graveside service for Sharon Lee Axley, 63, of Nacogdoches will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 18, 2008, at Sunset Memorial Park. The Rev. Wanda Cuniff, Deacon at Christ Episcopal church, will be the officiant. Sharon died May 16, 2008, in Nacogdoches. She was born July 14, 1944, in Nacogdoches, Texas. She graduated from Nacogdoches High School in 1962 and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, in 1965. She was a member of Delta Zeta Sorority. She taught high school in Victoria, Texas for several years and later moved to Houston where she worked for various companies as a systems analysis. She is preceded in death by her father, Branchy Lee Axley on May 14, 2001, and her sister Kay Axley Musgrave on April 23, 1977. Survivors include her mother, Veida Bauman Axley, her sisters, Connie Aman of Houston, Texas, and Linda Cower and husband, John Cower of Niles, Michigan; nieces and nephews, Cebern Musgrave of San Antonio, Texas, Jim Aman of Houston, Texas, Laurie Galloway and husband, Kevin Galloway of San Antonio, Texas and Lt. Commander Brent Cower, U.S. Navy and wife, Rebecca of Falls Church, Virginia; Kathryn Lee Cower of Lawerenceville, New Jersey, and Branch Cower of Niles, Michigan and great nephews, James and Joe Galloway of San Antonio, Texas. The family would like to express their thanks to Sharon¹s caregivers at the Rock Haven Nursing Center, the Austin House and Virginia Cox. In Sharon¹s memory, memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church, 200 East Hospital Street, Nacogdoches, Texas, 75961 or to the charity of your choice. Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Directors.