DENISON
Memorial Services for Michael Cole will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, November 19, 2009 at Johnson-Moore Chapel with Rev. Keith Taylor of Southside Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery at a later date. Michael Cole 38, died November 16, 2009 in Colbert, Oklahoma. Family visitation will be Wednesday evening from 6-7 p.m. at Johnson-Moore Funeral Home.
Michael was born April 30, 1971 in Wuerzburg, Germany to Clifford and Rhonda Cole while his father was serving in the United States Army stationed in Bad Kissingen, Germany on the Czechoslovakian border. Michael's family returned to the Denison area where he grew up. He graduated from Denison High School in 1989. He recieved a degree in criminal justice from Grayson County College. He was a funeral assistant for Johnson-Moore Funeral Home for twenty years, working along side his father.
On June 17, 1995, he married the love of his life, Tina Lisa Embry, who preceded him in death on November 24, 1995. He never fully recovered from this devastating loss.
He is survived by his father, Clifford Cole of Denison; mother, Rhonda Stonebarger of Colbert, Oklahoma (Danny Perkins of Colbert); sister, Aimee L. Cole of Denison (Sean Antley of Denison); niece, Jacqueline "Jackie" Cole of Denison; grandmother, Ruth E. Cole of Denison; aunt and uncle, Polly and Buddy Staley of Denison and aunt and uncle Wilthia and Darold Henson of Denison; three other aunts, one uncle and many cousins.
Michael was preceded in death by his grandfather, James H. Cole; grandparents, Durward K. and Bertie E. "Bowles" Garrett; uncle, Jimmy Cole; and aunt, Jackie Cole.
Michael was a memeber of the Denison Church of the Nazarene and was an accomplished guitarist.
When your voice has been silenced, and your light shines no more.
I'll know you will be waiting, on Heaven's golden shore.
Just listen for my whisper, your soul will always hear.
I'm just a breath away from you, and in your heart so dear.
Love, Daddy
