1936-2022

Services for Earline Fisher, 86, of Grand Saline, were held Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022, at Bartley Funeral Home.

Interment followed in Woodside Cemetery.

Ms. Fisher passed away Dec. 23, 2022, in Grand Saline. She was born Aug. 11, 1936, in Grand Saline, to Dee and Eula Mae Smithart Alexander. She graduated from GSHS, Class of 1954, and was a member of Main Street Baptist Church. She lived her entire life in Van Zandt County, where she had worked for Fruitvale ISD for over 42 years. Earline was preceded in death by her parents; father of her children, Leroy Stone; granddaughter, Cheri Joslin; brother-in-law, Al Erwin; daughter-inlaw, Judy Stone, and two sisters, Peggy Riley and Lois Flynn.

Survivors include her two sons, Wylie Stone and wife, Diane, of Fruitvale, and Randy Stone of Grand Saline; daughter, Leslie Joslin and husband, Woody, of Grand Saline; brother, Floyd Alexander and wife, Loretta, of Malvern, Arkansas; three sisters, Betty Byford of Mineola; Barbara Erwin of Grand Saline, and DeeAnn Watkins and husband, Joe, of Caddo Mills; six grandchildren; eighteen great grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren, and numerous other relatives and friends.

Pallbearers will be Briley Stone, David Dunigan II, Dustin Stone, Hunter Robinson, Ryland Robinson, Casey Stone, Jackson Miller, Jaron Miller, Cameron Martinez, Tyler Martinez, and Brody Nix.

The family received friends at 10 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022, at the funeral home.

Earline’s family would like to express their heartfelt gratitude to her Azalea Trails family for the loving care she was given. The family would also like to thank Enhabit Home Health and Hospice Service.