N. Lou Dail

Nannie Lou Dail, 78, of Apopka died May 11, 2015 at Florida Hospital – Apopka. Lou was born in the mountains of eastern Kentucky in the small coal mining town of Saxton. She was educated in the Black Star Coal Camp community schools located in Harlan County. After graduating from Black Star High School, the adventurous young woman went to work for F.B.I. in Washington D. C. as a fingerprint clerk.

In 1957 she married the love of her life, Sgt. Lenwood Earl Dail, USAF and together they traveled the world in service of their country with four sons in tow. The spirited petite raven haired coal-miner’s daughter even traveled alone with her young sons to join her husband at Air Force bases in Libya, Africa in 1960, and Sembach, Germany in 1967. Lou lost her husband in early eighties and never remarried.

When Lou’s husband retired from the Air Force in 1972 they settled in Apopka Florida and Lou went to work for Orange County Public Schools. She worked for the school system for over 32 years as an attendance clerk at Apopka Elementary. As a devout Christian and Baptist she joined the First Baptist Church of Apopka in 1972. The church was her passion and she spent much of her retirement involved with church activities. To keep busy in her retirement she volunteered at several local elementary schools nearly every week.

Lou leaves her four sons, Gregory of Apopka, and son Matthew; Brian and his wife Ellen of St. Augustine; and their children David and Adriana; Mark of Apopka and his daughter Alana; Ronald and his wife Angela of Sorrento, and their children Garrett and Cecilia, Cecilia’s husband Tim and their infant son Cooper. She is also survived by her older sister Joann Korbow of Hollywood Florida, along Joann’s children Gary and Louann.