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- Rad worked at a refinery. He was a Feed & Seed Manager, automotive parts salesman and manager. He also had a
dairy farm. Anita and Rad lived on the Sid Bassett home place, where they had a dairy farm. They kept the place in a high state of repair. It is a beautiful farm and has been in the same family for over 100 years.
Cooke County History: Past and Present
Joseph Rad and Mary Anita (Hafford) McDaniel
Joseph Rad McDaniel was born June 02, 1910, in Cooke County, Texas.
Rad was the oldest of four children born to Jim and Sally McDaniel. Mary Anita
(Hafford) was born February 11, 1910, in Cooke County, Texas, in the
Woodbine/Dye community. Mary Anita was the third oldest child of four children
born to Luther and Amy Hafford. Amy Hafford died when Mary Anita was three
years of age. Luther never remarried.
Rad and Mary Anita married on July 11, 1936. Rad worked at Tydal
Refinery, Gainesville, Texas, during the early years of their marriage, and
they lived in Gainesville. Later, they moved to the farm, and Rad was a farmer
and dairyman while also working in Gainesville in the feed business and
automotive parts retail business.
Mary Anita was a homemaker and community leader, returned to college,
and subsequently taught homemaking at the Gainesville State School for Girls.
Rad and Mary Anita retired in 1975.
Rad and Mary Anita had three children: Jerry, the eldest, Bob, and
Sandy. Jerry married Carla Jo Bush of Gainesville and moved to Virginia. Bob
married Dartha Lynch, divorced, and resides in California. Sandy married Joe
Nichols, and they reside on the fourth-generation farm where Sandy was raised.
The farm was first purchased by Mary Anita's grandfather, Sidney Algern
Bassett, in 1883. Her father, Luther Hafford, resided here next, and Mr.
Hafford then sold the farm to Mary Anita and Rad McDaniel.
Mary Anita developed Alzheimer's Disease and is and has been a nursing
home resident since 1983.
Rad, at age eighty-one, remains active and healthy, and, as suc
tends to the needs of Mary Anita at the nursing home, which required almost
sixty miles driving on a daily basis. Article by Joe Nichols.
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