Freida Dale Amis Park, much beloved mother, grandmother, and great- grandmother, passed away peacefully on September 9, 2017, in Houston, Texas at the age of 101. The only child of Freida Retta Moore and Joe Dale Amis, Dale was born on August 10, 1916, in Memphis, Tennessee. She graduated from Central High School in Memphis and attended Memphis Teachers College, now the University of Memphis. Freida met her future husband, Tom Newton Park, at a fraternity dance, and after a two and a half year courtship, they were married in Memphis on December 23, 1937. They celebrated 56 years of enduring love and friendship until his passing in 1994. Their daughter, Susan Lynne, was born March 27, 1944 in Dayton, Ohio, while Tom was stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Field during World War II. After the war, they moved to Dallas, Texas, where their son, Tom Newton Park, Jr, was born on December 20, 1946. Dale was a busy stay-at-home mom until her children entered their college years, when she worked first for WFAA Radio and then WFAA TV as Assistant Program Director. After both Dale and Tom retired, they moved in 1983 to McKinney, Texas, where they enjoyed making new friends, taking square dance lessons and playing lots of golf. Dale was a former member of Eldorado Country Club, the Halcyon Club, McKinney Concerts, and Eldorado Ladies Club. They always shared that their eleven years in McKinney were some of the best years of their lives. Then, some seventeen years after the death of her husband in 1994, Dale moved to Houston, Texas to be near her daughter, Susan, and her family. Dale’s love of family, generosity and enthusiasm for life were unmistakable. Her laugh was large and infectious; her passion for Sudoku and the Dallas Cowboys unwavering; and her artistic gifts impressive. Painting, both in oils and watercolors, was a lifetime love, and Dale continued to paint until her last years. A lifelong Presbyterian, Dale possessed a quiet but strong faith in her God. It was important to her to live to be 100, although she fell short of her next goal: to live longer than her mother, who died at the age of 106.

Dale is survived by her daughter, Susan, and husband George Crosby, of Houston, Texas; her son, Tom N. Park, Jr and wife, Denise, of Huntersville, North Carolina. She also leaves behind her five beloved grandchildren: Lisa Crosby Fikes and husband, Scott, of Houston, Texas; Brian David Crosby and wife, Margaret, of Port Chester, New York; Alisha Park Dakon and husband, Josh, of Charlottesville, Virginia; Laura Park Auterson and husband Jake, of Argyle, Texas; and Christopher Amis Park of Buda, Texas. She was also blessed to have five great grandchildren: Sarah Grace Fikes and Katherine Ann Fikes of Houston, Texas, James Henry Crosby and Nathaniel David Crosby of Port Chester, New York, and Quinn Michelle Dakon of Charlottesville, Virginia.

According to her wishes, Dale was cremated, and her urn was interred next to her husband and mother in Ridgeview Memorial Park Cemetery, Allen, Texas, under the direction of Turrentine-Jackson-Morrow Funeral Directors, Allen, Texas. A private family celebration of her life was held on March 3, 2018, at the home of her great nephew, Walter Smith and his wife, Claire, in McKinney, Texas.