Harriet A. Drake, age 78, passed from this life on the 25th day of October, 2021 due to COPD. Harriet was the third child born to the marriage of Robert L. McBride and Ila Lee Jones McBride on November 21, 1942 in the Sunset community of Hunt County.
Harriet is the mother of two daughters, Lacy Smith and husband, Johnny and Sheila Trout and husband, Bobby, the grandmother of six, Wayne Miller, Ryan Hogue, Charlyn Smith, Leslie Smith, Brittany Trout and Morgan Trout and the great-grandmother of five and is survived by these, as well as two sisters, Laura Davis and Mary Bennett and two brothers, Harold R. McBride and Robert Michael McBride.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Billy H. Drake, her parents and one brother, Thomas Earl McBride.
Harriet was reared in Greenville and attended schools in Greenville for 10 ½ years before moving to Dallas, and she returned to Greenville to spend her retirement. She was a member of the Mesquite Valley Baptist Church in Mesquite, Texas but had attended the Bull Creek Cowboy Church since moving back to Greenville. She spent her career working in law with several years employed by Sheriff Bill Decker and the Honorable Henry Wade before she joined private law firms.
Services will be conducted at 2:00 PM Tuesday, November 2, 2021 in the chapel of Coker-Mathews Funeral Home with the Rev. Dan Cockrell of Killeen and Mr. David Carlock of Dallas conducting services with burial at Etter Lake Cemetery, CR 3306, Hwy. 69 South in Greenville. Visitation will begin two hours prior to the service.
Pallbearers will be James Davis, Bobby Trout, Coy Davis, Ryan Hogue, Don Davis and Wayne Miller.
Please make any memorials to Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch, P. O. Box 1890, Amarillo, TX 79105-9985.