Gloria Jean Daniels

A Visitation for Gloria will be held Friday, November 29, 2024 from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel, 7301 East Lancaster Ave, Fort Worth, Texas 76112. Remarks during visitation will start at 6:30 PM.

Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, November 30, 2024 at 11:00 AM at Eastland Church of Christ, 3909 S Edgewood Terrace, Fort Worth, Texas 76119. Burial to follow at Shannon Rose Hill Cemetery.

Gloria Jean Daniels was born on December 29, 1932, to the parentage of Solomon Ray and Zeola Faye Edwards. She was one of ten children. She grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, and graduated from I. M. Terrell High School. She attended Southwestern Christian College in Terrell Texas, and earned an Associate Arts Degree. Gloria was a lifelong member of Allen Avenue Church of Christ which later became Eastland Church of Christ.

Gloria loved God and His son, Jesus Christ, and was active in the church all of her life. She enjoyed learning about Christ by attending Bible Classes, Worship Services, Homecoming Celebrations, First Sunday Singing, and Church related gatherings. Gloria was an avid member of the Southwestern Christian College Alumni group who worked to raise funds for the furtherment of Christian education.

Gloria met the love of her life, Zelro Daniels, married, and were blessed with four children, Gloria Gail, Joan Elizabeth, Zelro Anthony, and Donna Cheree. Gloria was a stay-at-home mom during her children’s elementary and middle school years, and later worked in Library media at Tarrant County Junior College, Northeast Campus for over thirty years. This was the perfect career for her because she was smart, very personable, and a voracious reader. She had the natural ability to know people and make them lifelong friends at the same time. Gloria’s beautiful smile could bring sunshine to any room, and her personality was positive and infectious making her well liked and loved by many.

Gloria LOVED spending time with her family at birthday parties, special holidays, our annual High Family Reunion, or just going to the mall, bookstores, or restaurants. Gloria deeply loved her husband, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, her parents, siblings, and extended family members. She also had a close group of life-long friends who were dear to her. She often talked fondly about Mrs. Nora Pyles, Mrs. Marie Bolton, Mrs. Annie Pearl Williams, Mrs. Georgia Johnson, Mrs. Norma Norris, Mrs. Helen Curtis, and many, many others. Gloria was very generous with her time, advice, and love, and enjoyed helping those in need.

Gloria is preceded in death by her mother, Zeola Faye Edwards, father, Solomon Ray Edwards, siblings, Cedric Dale Edwards, David Anthony Edwards, Paul Oliver Edwards, Solomon Edwards, Jr., Allen Eugene Edwards, Clara Inez Minneweather, Rosemary Williams, and special niece, Sandra Kaye Guerry.

Those left to cherish her memories are her children, Gloria Gail Daniels, Joan Elizabeth Walker, (Clarence), Zelro Anthony Daniels, Donna Cheree Taylor, sisters, Zeola Faye Morgan, Barbara Louise Jones; grandchildren, Cara Walker, Chad Walker (Ashley), Megan Visetsin (Rickey), Mia and Miles Daniels, Jared Taylor (Ariana), Jillian and Julianna Taylor, great-grandchildren, Collin, Chase, Alanah Walker, Reign, Remington, and Reid Visetsin, many cousins, nieces, nephews, and friends with very special thanks to Marva Lewis, Roman Lewis, Tami Morehead, the rest of Angie Daniels’ family members.