Services were held on March 28, 2022 at Scott's Funeral Home in Gatesville with the Reverend Max Gunn officiating. Burial was at Seaton Cemetery near Leon Junction.
Johnnie Jenkins was born on June 11, 1924 in the Mound community of Coryell County to the late Tom and Ella McDavid Smith. During her childhood years, her father was a sharecropper which took them from home to home following the farm work. She, along with her parents and siblings, spent many hours in the fields picking cotton and other crops during the late 1920s and 1930s. She attended school at Caufield Mountain and Mound. Although dreaming of attending high school, she, like many other children of the depression era, left school after the eighth grade to work in the fields full time to help support their families. In the early 1940s, Johnnie was determined that her parents would not have to move again so, at the age that she was old enough, she went to work at a candy factory in Waco for several years in order to make the final payment on her aging parents' home near Leon Junction. She married Bobby Jenkins, Jr. on February 13, 1943. She was a homemaker and worked for several years at the Duke & Ayers Variety Store in Corsicana. She was a member of College Avenue Baptist Church in McGregor and Rebekah Lodge #128 in Corsicana. She enjoyed fishing, needlework, word puzzles, listening to classic country music, traveling with her husband and spending time with her family. She will be remembered most by her infections laughter and will be cherished by those who knew and loved her.
Johnnie was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; daughters, Linda Jenkins Holley and Celia Jenkins Sharp; brothers, Calvin Smith and Robert Smith; sisters, Irene Fellers, Myrna Curry, Leona Hartsell, Goldie Montgomery and Stella Woodul; and two grandsons, Bobby Joe Loreille and Jeffrey Nieswanger.
She is survived by a daughter, Mary Dockery and husband, Gary (Doc) Dockery of Oglesby; son, Robert (Bud) Jenkins and wife Lauralee of Gatesville; son-in-law, Ronnie Sharp of Burleson; grandchildren, Laura Ann Cryer and Husband Rory, Wayne Holley, Steven Holley, Larissa McLean, Jennifer Rodriguez, Bobby Jenkins and wife, Melissa, Tim Jenkins and wife, Dorothy, Ronda Beyeaux and husband, Bill; numerous great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.
Johnnie Jenkins was born on June 11, 1924 in the Mound community of Coryell County to the late Tom and Ella McDavid Smith. During her childhood years, her father was a sharecropper which took them from home to home following the farm work. She, along with her parents and siblings, spent many hours in the fields picking cotton and other crops during the late 1920s and 1930s. She attended school at Caufield Mountain and Mound. Although dreaming of attending high school, she, like many other children of the depression era, left school after the eighth grade to work in the fields full time to help support their families. In the early 1940s, Johnnie was determined that her parents would not have to move again so, at the age that she was old enough, she went to work at a candy factory in Waco for several years in order to make the final payment on her aging parents' home near Leon Junction. She married Bobby Jenkins, Jr. on February 13, 1943. She was a homemaker and worked for several years at the Duke & Ayers Variety Store in Corsicana. She was a member of College Avenue Baptist Church in McGregor and Rebekah Lodge #128 in Corsicana. She enjoyed fishing, needlework, word puzzles, listening to classic country music, traveling with her husband and spending time with her family. She will be remembered most by her infections laughter and will be cherished by those who knew and loved her.
Johnnie was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; daughters, Linda Jenkins Holley and Celia Jenkins Sharp; brothers, Calvin Smith and Robert Smith; sisters, Irene Fellers, Myrna Curry, Leona Hartsell, Goldie Montgomery and Stella Woodul; and two grandsons, Bobby Joe Loreille and Jeffrey Nieswanger.
She is survived by a daughter, Mary Dockery and husband, Gary (Doc) Dockery of Oglesby; son, Robert (Bud) Jenkins and wife Lauralee of Gatesville; son-in-law, Ronnie Sharp of Burleson; grandchildren, Laura Ann Cryer and Husband Rory, Wayne Holley, Steven Holley, Larissa McLean, Jennifer Rodriguez, Bobby Jenkins and wife, Melissa, Tim Jenkins and wife, Dorothy, Ronda Beyeaux and husband, Bill; numerous great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.
Services were held on March 28, 2022 at Scott's Funeral Home in Gatesville with the Reverend Max Gunn officiating. Burial was at Seaton Cemetery near Leon Junction.
Johnnie Jenkins was born on June 11, 1924 in the Mound community of Coryell County to the late Tom and Ella McDavid Smith. During her childhood years, her father was a sharecropper which took them from home to home following the farm work. She, along with her parents and siblings, spent many hours in the fields picking cotton and other crops during the late 1920s and 1930s. She attended school at Caufield Mountain and Mound. Although dreaming of attending high school, she, like many other children of the depression era, left school after the eighth grade to work in the fields full time to help support their families. In the early 1940s, Johnnie was determined that her parents would not have to move again so, at the age that she was old enough, she went to work at a candy factory in Waco for several years in order to make the final payment on her aging parents' home near Leon Junction. She married Bobby Jenkins, Jr. on February 13, 1943. She was a homemaker and worked for several years at the Duke & Ayers Variety Store in Corsicana. She was a member of College Avenue Baptist Church in McGregor and Rebekah Lodge #128 in Corsicana. She enjoyed fishing, needlework, word puzzles, listening to classic country music, traveling with her husband and spending time with her family. She will be remembered most by her infections laughter and will be cherished by those who knew and loved her.
Johnnie was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; daughters, Linda Jenkins Holley and Celia Jenkins Sharp; brothers, Calvin Smith and Robert Smith; sisters, Irene Fellers, Myrna Curry, Leona Hartsell, Goldie Montgomery and Stella Woodul; and two grandsons, Bobby Joe Loreille and Jeffrey Nieswanger.
She is survived by a daughter, Mary Dockery and husband, Gary (Doc) Dockery of Oglesby; son, Robert (Bud) Jenkins and wife Lauralee of Gatesville; son-in-law, Ronnie Sharp of Burleson; grandchildren, Laura Ann Cryer and Husband Rory, Wayne Holley, Steven Holley, Larissa McLean, Jennifer Rodriguez, Bobby Jenkins and wife, Melissa, Tim Jenkins and wife, Dorothy, Ronda Beyeaux and husband, Bill; numerous great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.
Johnnie Jenkins was born on June 11, 1924 in the Mound community of Coryell County to the late Tom and Ella McDavid Smith. During her childhood years, her father was a sharecropper which took them from home to home following the farm work. She, along with her parents and siblings, spent many hours in the fields picking cotton and other crops during the late 1920s and 1930s. She attended school at Caufield Mountain and Mound. Although dreaming of attending high school, she, like many other children of the depression era, left school after the eighth grade to work in the fields full time to help support their families. In the early 1940s, Johnnie was determined that her parents would not have to move again so, at the age that she was old enough, she went to work at a candy factory in Waco for several years in order to make the final payment on her aging parents' home near Leon Junction. She married Bobby Jenkins, Jr. on February 13, 1943. She was a homemaker and worked for several years at the Duke & Ayers Variety Store in Corsicana. She was a member of College Avenue Baptist Church in McGregor and Rebekah Lodge #128 in Corsicana. She enjoyed fishing, needlework, word puzzles, listening to classic country music, traveling with her husband and spending time with her family. She will be remembered most by her infections laughter and will be cherished by those who knew and loved her.
Johnnie was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; daughters, Linda Jenkins Holley and Celia Jenkins Sharp; brothers, Calvin Smith and Robert Smith; sisters, Irene Fellers, Myrna Curry, Leona Hartsell, Goldie Montgomery and Stella Woodul; and two grandsons, Bobby Joe Loreille and Jeffrey Nieswanger.
She is survived by a daughter, Mary Dockery and husband, Gary (Doc) Dockery of Oglesby; son, Robert (Bud) Jenkins and wife Lauralee of Gatesville; son-in-law, Ronnie Sharp of Burleson; grandchildren, Laura Ann Cryer and Husband Rory, Wayne Holley, Steven Holley, Larissa McLean, Jennifer Rodriguez, Bobby Jenkins and wife, Melissa, Tim Jenkins and wife, Dorothy, Ronda Beyeaux and husband, Bill; numerous great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.
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