A graveside service for Joe Freeman Daniel, age 79, of Enid, will be at 1:00 P.M. Wednesday, December 31, 2008, at the Lexington, OK Cemetery.  Arrangements are by Anderson-Burris Funeral Home.

             He was born to Henry and Adeline (Conley) Daniel on August 22, 1929, in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, and died Sunday, December 28, 2008, at his home in Enid.

             Joe graduated from Purcell High School and attended the University of Oklahoma.  He served in the United States Army during the Korean War.  On November 29, 1958, he married Irma J. Burmeister in Chickasha, and they made their home in Arkansas City, KS.  They moved to Enid in 1988.    He was a clerk/agent for Frisco Railroad, which became Burlington Northern Railroad, where he worked for forty-two years until his retirement.   Joe was an avid sports fan.  In 1947, while attending Purcell High School, he made the Oklahoma All-State Baseball Team.  He was a member of the Railroad Museum of Oklahoma, American Legion, and the 28^th General Hospital Army Veteran’s Unit.

            He is survived by two daughters, Jean Slaven and husband Earl of Arkansas City, KS, and Sally Daniel of Ft. Worth, TX; two grandchildren, Sherry McNaught and husband Joe of Edmond and Candi Bailey and husband Scott of Chickasha; and one great grandson Zachary McNaught.

             Joe was preceded in death by his parents; wife Irma on October 2, 2008; son Robert J. Hauger; two brothers Tom and Curt Daniel; and three sisters, Cornelia Peed, Sally Burton and Lou Ann Kerns.

             Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Y.W.C.A. Crisis Center.