Ola McClain Pressnell passed away Monday December 15,2008 she was born July 8, 1911 to Mr, and Mrs William J McClain. She was preceded to her Makers House by her Father and Mother four sisters Ethel, Lee, Ora Bell and Dorothy two brothers Ray and Homer McClain. They all were born and grew up in Collin County before and after WW/1 and the great depression. She also was preceded by her husband, John Alfred Pressnell, who she married September 21 1941 and one Grand child Gail Rittenhouse. Ola was no stranger to hard work she knew the cotton fields of Collin county where she chopped and picked cotton most of the time for less than a dollar a day for chopping this would in the month of July. Picking was no better in September, at a penny a pound she could make two dollars a day in good cotton field, less in picked over fields. Shortly before WW/2 she and her then husband Lonnie Edmonds and daughter Elsie moved to town and she went to work in the cotton mill, which was no piece of cake. In the summer time no AC, winter time no heat and at times it was difficult to see from one end of the building to the other for the cotton lint and dust from the forced ventilation system, she stuck with it till they closed it over twenty years. Later in her spare time after WW/2 she ran the drive-in theater that was locater at the North East corner of the intersection of Highway 5 and 380 until it closed, she then went to work at Alumator, a factory in Plano until forced retirement at sixty five. She then went to work in Wysongs hospital as a nurse’s aid until she was forced to retire for health reasons. She leaves a loving family one daughter and two sons and their spouses, Elsie Marie Edmonds Rittenhouse and Bill, Johnny Pressnell and Linda, Bobby Pressnell and Chandra. With Grand children Billy Mark Rittenhouse and Wife Young, Bob Pressnell JR, Tracy Heft and Husband Jason; Ian, Alex, Nathan all of McKinney. And Kim Fair and Husband Kenny of Glena Alaska, Great Grand Children William, Spencer Kenny and Shadow. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, December 18, 2008, in the Turrentine-Jackson-Morrow Chapel. Interment will follow at Wilson Chapel Cemetery in Lowry Crossing. The family will receive friends for a visitation beginning at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, at Turrentine-Jackson-Morrow Funeral Home.