Relatives and friends are invited to attend the visitation on Sunday, January 21 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. at the Bailey Funeral Home in Clyde.

Services will be at 2:00 p.m. Monday at the funeral home Chapel with Bill Eason officiating. Burial will follow in the Tecumseh Cemetery under the direction of Bailey Funeral Home.

Elsie was born April 3, 1920 in Oplin to Charles Dean and Annie Laura (Windham) Straley. She grew up and attended Oplin High School graduating in 1937. She attended college two years at Abilene Christian College. She later moved to El Paso, TX, to be near her daughter. She graduated from nursing school receiving her Licensed Vocational Nursing degree. She worked at Providence Memorial Hospital. In 1975, she moved back to Oplin to care for her parents. Before retirement she worked at Clyde Nursing Home. In 2000, she moved to Camp Hill, PA to be near her sons. And though she moved many times to many places, she never felt at home unless her feet were on Callahan County soil.
She was a member of the Oplin Church of Christ. She loved painting, Tom Jones music and any opportunity to be around her kids and grandkids.

Survivors include two sons: Tom Dean Durham of Phillipsburg, NJ and James Britton Durham of Camp Hill, PA; six grandchildren: Peregrina (Rina) Ann Ramos of Joshua, TX; Robert Kent Arroyo of Austin, TX; Katherine Lou Durham of Phillipsburg, NJ; Austin Charles Durham, Danielle Louise Durham and Zachary Britton Durham of Camp Hill, PA; and two great-grandchildren: Edward Grey and Michael Orion Ramos of Joshua, TX.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her brother, Charley Tom Straley, her sister Frankie Lee Hancock, and her beloved daughter Reba Ann Arroyo of Clyde.