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December 10, 1934 –  March 25, 2016  Graveside Services for Jewel Dean Jenkins, 81, of Ponder, Texas will be held Monday, March 28, 2016, at 11:00 a.m. at Collinsville Cemetery with Rev. Johnny Johnston officiating. Meador Funeral Home of Whitesboro, Texas, is in charge of arrangements. She passed away peacefully at her home in Ponder, Texas, Friday, March 25th with her loving family by her side. She was born December 10, 1934, in Sanger, Texas to Hubert and Minnie King. She married James Jenkins on May 15, 1952, in Gainesville, Texas. She retired from the Denton State School after 23 years of faithful service. She was a Christian and of the Baptist faith. She was a very creative person who loved to paint and was always working on something new. The family would like to thank Denton Rehabilitation and VNA Hospice for their kind and compassionate care. She is survived by her daughters, Beverly Kelly and husband, Don of Joshua, Brenda White and husband, Allen of Ft. Worth, Bonnie Reeves and husband, John of Ponder, and Minnie Hennegan and husband, Rowdy of Ponder; son, John Paul Jenkins of Ponder; 8 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren; sisters, Joyce Robinson of Denison and Lou Robinson of Whitesboro and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, Hubert and Minnie King; husband, James Jenkins; son, James David Jenkins; granddaughters, Beverly Dean Greer and Tammy Lynn Dodson and grandson, Joshua Gatlin; sisters, Pearl Smith, Polly Wilkerson and Gloria Mackey and a brother, James King.
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