Angie Vail

Angie Christine Vail (92) passed away Monday, November 18, 2024, in Hillsboro, Texas. Funeral services will take place at 10:00 am, Friday, November 22, 2024, at Central Baptist Church in Hillsboro with burial to follow at Rose Hill Cemetery, Cleburne. A visitation will be held from 5:00 to 7:00 pm, Thursday, November 21, 2024, at Marshall & Marshall Funeral Directors in Hillsboro.

She was born in Waco, Texas, to W.A. (Pete) Carnahan and Christine Young Carnahan on March 27, 1932. Angie married Harold Vail on August 6, 1955.

Angie received her bachelors and masters degrees from North Texas State University in business education and did further graduate work. She began her career at Howard College in Big Spring and later at San Jacinto College in Pasadena and later at Hill College in Hillsboro where she taught business courses and was Director of the Division of Business and Management. She and Harold were a part of the original faculty of Hill College. Angie taught school for thirty-two years, the last twenty-five in Hillsboro.

She joined Central Baptist Church in 1969 and a few weeks later began teaching Sunday School until 2021. She also taught a Bible study at Homestead Nursing Home from 1980 until present. And taught a Bible study at The Legends from 2002 until 2021.

Angie was on the building committee at Central Baptist Church and after the building was completed acted as Church Campus Director until 2020. At Central she served on the baptism, personnel, finance, nursery, funeral and pastor search committees. For a number of years, she served as the Church Clerk.

Preceded in death by her parents, W.A. Pete and Christine Carnahan; her husband, Harold Vail on January 18, 1995; and her son, Darrell Vail, on August 2, 2011; Angie is survived by her sister, Sue Jo Hodges of Huntsville, Alabama; three nieces, Julie Peace and her husband, Ty of Woodstock, Georgia, Janice Fain and her husband, John of Huntsville, Alabama, and Jennifer Whitman and her husband, David of Huntsville, Alabama; four great nieces, four great nephews; one great-great niece; one great-great nephew; a beloved church family at Central Baptist Church; and other friends and relatives.

Memorials can be made to the Building Fund, Central Baptist Church, PO Box 263, Hillsboro, Texas 76645.