Frank McMillian
Apr 16, 2018Viewing will be held Friday, March 23, 1-7 p.m., with the family present 6-7 p.m.Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 24, at 2:30 p.m. in the Moore’s Angelic Funeral Chapel with Pastor Earl Bell officiating and Elder Billy Jackson, Eulogist. Interment will be in the Antioch Cemetery, North 1st Street in Teague.Mr. McMillian was born Dec. 5, 1937, the second child born to Van and Sallie McMillian in Orville, Ala. He grew up in Hazard, Ky., where he attended the public schools. He and his wife, Frances, were married in Bloomerville, Ky., in 1961, and they were the parents of two children: Frank Jeffery McMillian and Chrystal McMillian. Frank and Choicey were married on March 24, 1984, in Teague.Frank enlisted in the U.S. Army in April 1955, and he served in the Medical Corps until he was honorably discharged in 1957. He served three years in the Army Reserves.Frank was a graduate of The Kentucky School Of Embalming and worked as a licensed funeral director and embalmer in Kentucky as well as Lotts Mortuary, Dallas, Dorsey & Keatts Funeral Home, Mexia, and Community Funeral Home and Emanuel Funeral Home, in Teague. He was the first funeral director in charge of Moore’s Angelic Funeral Home, in Teague.Mr. McMillian was a faithful member of The St. Paul Church Of God In Christ, in Teague, where he served as Sunday school superintendent, deacon and trustee.Frank was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Estelle Tate; a brother-in-law; two granddaughters, Destiny McMillian and Shakari Freeman.Those left to cherish his memory are his faithful wife Choicey McMillian, of Teague; his son, Frank Jeffery McMillian, of Lexington, Ky; daughters Crystal McMillian, of Bardstown, Ky., Deirdre Carter, and Shirley Freeman, of Mexia, Sandra Hatcher and husband, Calvin, of Mexia, and Lisa Shockley and husband David, of Mexia; 17 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; eight great-great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.Moore’s Angelic Funeral Home, 406 Monroe S... (Mexia Daily News)