Thelma Evelyn Holt Donham Jennings, affectionately known as T. J., 79, died Thursday, December 15, 2005, at the Casa de Oro Nursing Home, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Services have been set for 2:00 p.m. at the Frank Wilson Funeral Home, Odessa, Texas. Interment will follow at the Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Odessa.
Thelma was born to Walter Roland and Lora Birdie Dyer Holt on March 9, 1926, in Caddo, TX. The family moved to Odessa in 1930 where she graduated from Odessa High School in 1944.
In 1945, she married Lt. Jack Albert Gates, a USAF bomber navigator who was KIA over Germany in December 1945.
In 1947, she married Charles Tillman Henderson, USAF, in Odessa, TX.
She married Horace Dee (Spec) Donham September 05, 1948, in Ballinger, Texas, but resided in Odessa. They owned and operated Donham Oil Tool Co., DOTCO. After Mr. Donham’s death in 1956, she continued as the company’s President.
She married James Ray Jennings March 2, 1957 at the First Baptist Church, Odessa.
Mrs. Jennings was a member of the Ector County Sheriff’s Posse and the Eastern Star.
She and her family loved to travel and often spent time at Lake Brownwood, TX, and Ruidoso, NM, taking friends with them.
She and Mr. Jennings sold Dotco in 1969 and bought a ranch in the Hondo Valley, east of Ruidoso. They also had ranches at Capitan, Villanueva and Tularosa, NM. They owned the Whispering Pines Restaurant in the Upper Canyon of Ruidoso. She sold the restaurant after Mr. Jennings death in 1981.
She was also predeceased by her parents and sister, Dorothy Rowena Holt.
She is survived by two daughters, Dee Ann Wooldridge of North Richland Hills, TX, and Lynda Monsimer of Ruidoso, NM, one son and daughter-in-law, William David and Linda Donham of Odessa; four grandchildren: Sam and Walter Donham of Odessa; James Donham (J.D,) Monsimer of Las Cruces, NM, and (granddaughter) D J Wooldridge of North Richland Hills, TX, one great grandson, Aspen Wooldridge; and two maternal aunts, Evelyn Mays Smith of Haltom City, TX, and Gracie Fields of California.
Thelma was born to Walter Roland and Lora Birdie Dyer Holt on March 9, 1926, in Caddo, TX. The family moved to Odessa in 1930 where she graduated from Odessa High School in 1944.
In 1945, she married Lt. Jack Albert Gates, a USAF bomber navigator who was KIA over Germany in December 1945.
In 1947, she married Charles Tillman Henderson, USAF, in Odessa, TX.
She married Horace Dee (Spec) Donham September 05, 1948, in Ballinger, Texas, but resided in Odessa. They owned and operated Donham Oil Tool Co., DOTCO. After Mr. Donham’s death in 1956, she continued as the company’s President.
She married James Ray Jennings March 2, 1957 at the First Baptist Church, Odessa.
Mrs. Jennings was a member of the Ector County Sheriff’s Posse and the Eastern Star.
She and her family loved to travel and often spent time at Lake Brownwood, TX, and Ruidoso, NM, taking friends with them.
She and Mr. Jennings sold Dotco in 1969 and bought a ranch in the Hondo Valley, east of Ruidoso. They also had ranches at Capitan, Villanueva and Tularosa, NM. They owned the Whispering Pines Restaurant in the Upper Canyon of Ruidoso. She sold the restaurant after Mr. Jennings death in 1981.
She was also predeceased by her parents and sister, Dorothy Rowena Holt.
She is survived by two daughters, Dee Ann Wooldridge of North Richland Hills, TX, and Lynda Monsimer of Ruidoso, NM, one son and daughter-in-law, William David and Linda Donham of Odessa; four grandchildren: Sam and Walter Donham of Odessa; James Donham (J.D,) Monsimer of Las Cruces, NM, and (granddaughter) D J Wooldridge of North Richland Hills, TX, one great grandson, Aspen Wooldridge; and two maternal aunts, Evelyn Mays Smith of Haltom City, TX, and Gracie Fields of California.
Thelma Evelyn Holt Donham Jennings, affectionately known as T. J., 79, died Thursday, December 15, 2005, at the Casa de Oro Nursing Home, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Services have been set for 2:00 p.m. at the Frank Wilson Funeral Home, Odessa, Texas. Interment will follow at the Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Odessa.
Thelma was born to Walter Roland and Lora Birdie Dyer Holt on March 9, 1926, in Caddo, TX. The family moved to Odessa in 1930 where she graduated from Odessa High School in 1944.
In 1945, she married Lt. Jack Albert Gates, a USAF bomber navigator who was KIA over Germany in December 1945.
In 1947, she married Charles Tillman Henderson, USAF, in Odessa, TX.
She married Horace Dee (Spec) Donham September 05, 1948, in Ballinger, Texas, but resided in Odessa. They owned and operated Donham Oil Tool Co., DOTCO. After Mr. Donham’s death in 1956, she continued as the company’s President.
She married James Ray Jennings March 2, 1957 at the First Baptist Church, Odessa.
Mrs. Jennings was a member of the Ector County Sheriff’s Posse and the Eastern Star.
She and her family loved to travel and often spent time at Lake Brownwood, TX, and Ruidoso, NM, taking friends with them.
She and Mr. Jennings sold Dotco in 1969 and bought a ranch in the Hondo Valley, east of Ruidoso. They also had ranches at Capitan, Villanueva and Tularosa, NM. They owned the Whispering Pines Restaurant in the Upper Canyon of Ruidoso. She sold the restaurant after Mr. Jennings death in 1981.
She was also predeceased by her parents and sister, Dorothy Rowena Holt.
She is survived by two daughters, Dee Ann Wooldridge of North Richland Hills, TX, and Lynda Monsimer of Ruidoso, NM, one son and daughter-in-law, William David and Linda Donham of Odessa; four grandchildren: Sam and Walter Donham of Odessa; James Donham (J.D,) Monsimer of Las Cruces, NM, and (granddaughter) D J Wooldridge of North Richland Hills, TX, one great grandson, Aspen Wooldridge; and two maternal aunts, Evelyn Mays Smith of Haltom City, TX, and Gracie Fields of California.
Thelma was born to Walter Roland and Lora Birdie Dyer Holt on March 9, 1926, in Caddo, TX. The family moved to Odessa in 1930 where she graduated from Odessa High School in 1944.
In 1945, she married Lt. Jack Albert Gates, a USAF bomber navigator who was KIA over Germany in December 1945.
In 1947, she married Charles Tillman Henderson, USAF, in Odessa, TX.
She married Horace Dee (Spec) Donham September 05, 1948, in Ballinger, Texas, but resided in Odessa. They owned and operated Donham Oil Tool Co., DOTCO. After Mr. Donham’s death in 1956, she continued as the company’s President.
She married James Ray Jennings March 2, 1957 at the First Baptist Church, Odessa.
Mrs. Jennings was a member of the Ector County Sheriff’s Posse and the Eastern Star.
She and her family loved to travel and often spent time at Lake Brownwood, TX, and Ruidoso, NM, taking friends with them.
She and Mr. Jennings sold Dotco in 1969 and bought a ranch in the Hondo Valley, east of Ruidoso. They also had ranches at Capitan, Villanueva and Tularosa, NM. They owned the Whispering Pines Restaurant in the Upper Canyon of Ruidoso. She sold the restaurant after Mr. Jennings death in 1981.
She was also predeceased by her parents and sister, Dorothy Rowena Holt.
She is survived by two daughters, Dee Ann Wooldridge of North Richland Hills, TX, and Lynda Monsimer of Ruidoso, NM, one son and daughter-in-law, William David and Linda Donham of Odessa; four grandchildren: Sam and Walter Donham of Odessa; James Donham (J.D,) Monsimer of Las Cruces, NM, and (granddaughter) D J Wooldridge of North Richland Hills, TX, one great grandson, Aspen Wooldridge; and two maternal aunts, Evelyn Mays Smith of Haltom City, TX, and Gracie Fields of California.
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