Sandra DanielJaco

 Mrs. Sandra Daniel Jaco passed away Sunday, September 18, at the age of 71.

 Mrs. Jaco was born in 1940 in Corpus Christi. During the subsequent war years, the family lived in Toledo, Ohio (for her father’s assignment by the War Department), and, after the war, the family returned to Texas and lived in Midland. In 1951, the family moved to Greenville where her father joined his family’s business, Daniel Oil Company. After graduating from Greenville High School in 1958, Mrs. Jaco attended the University of Texas for two years and graduated from East Texas State University in 1975.

In 1984, Mrs. Jaco was married to Charles Jaco in Greenville, and the couple spent many wonderful years together with a relationship full of love and laughter with family and friends and with the spiritual fulfillment of the Unitarian Universalist Church.

Throughout her years in the Greenville area, Mrs. Jaco was involved on many fronts. In business, Mrs. Jaco worked for 25 years with Daniel Oil Company, and after retirement, for two years with the Greenville Board of Development and for seven years with the City of Farmersville. In the community, Mrs. Jaco was involved with a variety of civic endeavors including the Greenville Revitalization Organization (now Main Street), Follies, the library replacement effort, and the Greenville Entertainment & Symphony Series.

Surviving Mrs. Jaco are her husband Charles Jaco (Greenville); her son Rick Billingsley (Arlington) and his wife Laura and their children Megan and Chance; her son David Billingsley (Corpus Christi) and his wife Loli and their children Davy and Sandra Maria; her daughter Candice Brown (McKinney) and her husband Pat and their children Patrick, Jonathan, Jessica, Brittany, and Christopher; her daughter Alison Barry (Greenville, SC) and her husband Randy and their children Jenna and Chris and her daughter Gracie; her daughter Joey Blakely (Frisco) and her children Martina, Brannen and Claira. Mrs. Jaco is also survived by her mother Mrs. L.H. “Bill” Daniel (Greenville) and her brother Hayden Daniel (Chicago) and his wife Barbara.

On October 23 at 2:00 PM a memorial will be held in the clubhouse at the Club Lake with services by Mrs. Jaco’s special friends from her spiritual support group in McKinney.

Send memorials to your charity of choice or to the Greenville Public Library.