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William Phillip "Phil"
Daniel
Feb 21, 1955 - Jan 7, 2021
Posted by Martha Reddout
© Marietta Monitor
15 Jan 2021, Page 5
(permission granted)
William Phillip (Phil) Daniel was born February 21, 1955 in Durant to
Pete and Estelle Daniel and left this world January 7, 2021 in Sherman,
Texas.
Phil graduated from Coleman High School in 1973. He attended
Murray State College for two years where he played basketball for two
years and baseball for one year. He then attended Southeastern Oklahoma
State University where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in
Education and a Masters of Education.
He married Karen Gail Cook on June 21, 1974 at Folsom FreeWill Baptist
Church where he taught Sunday School and served faithfully as a deacon
for many years.
Phil began his 38 year coaching and teaching career in Crowder. He then
moved to Atoka where he spent 13 years building a girls basketball
program that will not soon be forgotten.
Here he led his teams to six state tournament appearances, winning the
title in 1992. Then he made the move to Marietta. In those two years,
the girls basketball team broke the record for number of wins in a
season. Upon leaving Marietta, he returned to his alma mater to coach
and began his administrative career as principal at Coleman. In the
first year there, he led the girls team to the first state tournament
appearance in school history While at Coleman his team returned to the
state tournament one additional time. He then returned to Atoka for a
two year coaching stint before moving to Caney. There he was high school
principal for seven years and coached four of those, appearing in the
state tournament twice and reaching a milestone of 500 wins in his
second year. In 2012, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Girls Basketball
Coaches Association Hall of Fame. He tried retirement from coaching and
spent one year in Atkins, Arkansas as the high school principal, but
missed his grandkids so decided to move back home. He jumped at the
chance to coach with his former player, Crystal Robinson, at Murray
State College and spent two years there. He couldn't stay away from his
true calling of coaching high school girls basketball and took the girls
coaching job at Durant High School where he coached for four years. He
ended his career back at Coleman as principal and coach. In the span of
this amazing career, he amassed over 600 girls wins.
His hobbies outside of coaching basketball included attending anything
his 11 grandkids participated in or playing music. He was freakishly
talented in that he could play any instrument he decided to play but
could not read music.
He is preceded in death by his wife of 43 years, Karen Daniel, and his
parents, Pete and Estelle Daniel.
He is survived by his fiancee, Johni
Bell of Ardmore; daughters, Toni McLemore and husband Kyle of Durant and
Tonya Bucher and husband Quentin of Marietta; son, Trent Daniel and wife
Bre of Marietta; grandkids, Shaylin Nutter of the home, Zane Nutter,
Bradi McLemore, Addie McLemore, Eva Bucher, Dovan Bucher, Luke McLemore,
Cheyenne Daniel, Blair Daniel, Hank Johnson and Sutton Daniel; brothers,
David Daniel and wife Trudy of Coleman and W.C. Daniel and wife Ruth of
Coleman; sister, Annette Stanley and husband David of Coleman; along
with numerous nieces and nephews, family, friends and former players.
A celebration of his life was held at 2 p.m. Monday, January 11 at the
Atoka High School Gym with Brother Randy Tadlock and his son Trent
Daniel officiating. His final resting place is the Coleman Cemetery.
Phil's service will be available for viewing on the funeral home
Facebook page.
Services were under the direction of Homes~Coffey~Murray Funeral Home in
Durant, www.holmescoffeymurray.com.Holmes - Coffey - Murray
This obituary included a photo of Mr. Daniel.
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