Rita Darlene English was born to Jess Willard "Bill" English and Madelyne Lenora Reeb English on September 25, 1941 in Dallas.
She was their first child.
She grew up in Dallas and Lubbock. She contracted polio in 1956 when she was 15 years old. After spending nine months at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, she was released, first using a wheelchair then with crutches and leg braces. Darlene graduated from Lubbock High School in 1961 after a year of vocational education training at Lubbock Methodist Hospital to become a histology technician like her mother.
She is survived by three children, Cindy Hakel of Enid Oklahoma; Melisa Franks of Belton, Texas, and Christopher Carpenter of Temple, Texas; three grandchildren, Tanna Carpenter, Madelyne and Douglas "Dee" Franks.
She was their first child.
She grew up in Dallas and Lubbock. She contracted polio in 1956 when she was 15 years old. After spending nine months at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, she was released, first using a wheelchair then with crutches and leg braces. Darlene graduated from Lubbock High School in 1961 after a year of vocational education training at Lubbock Methodist Hospital to become a histology technician like her mother.
She is survived by three children, Cindy Hakel of Enid Oklahoma; Melisa Franks of Belton, Texas, and Christopher Carpenter of Temple, Texas; three grandchildren, Tanna Carpenter, Madelyne and Douglas "Dee" Franks.
Rita Darlene English was born to Jess Willard "Bill" English and Madelyne Lenora Reeb English on September 25, 1941 in Dallas.
She was their first child.
She grew up in Dallas and Lubbock. She contracted polio in 1956 when she was 15 years old. After spending nine months at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, she was released, first using a wheelchair then with crutches and leg braces. Darlene graduated from Lubbock High School in 1961 after a year of vocational education training at Lubbock Methodist Hospital to become a histology technician like her mother.
She is survived by three children, Cindy Hakel of Enid Oklahoma; Melisa Franks of Belton, Texas, and Christopher Carpenter of Temple, Texas; three grandchildren, Tanna Carpenter, Madelyne and Douglas "Dee" Franks.
She was their first child.
She grew up in Dallas and Lubbock. She contracted polio in 1956 when she was 15 years old. After spending nine months at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, she was released, first using a wheelchair then with crutches and leg braces. Darlene graduated from Lubbock High School in 1961 after a year of vocational education training at Lubbock Methodist Hospital to become a histology technician like her mother.
She is survived by three children, Cindy Hakel of Enid Oklahoma; Melisa Franks of Belton, Texas, and Christopher Carpenter of Temple, Texas; three grandchildren, Tanna Carpenter, Madelyne and Douglas "Dee" Franks.
