Obituary of Donia Lee Jeans, Miller County, Arkansas *********************************************************** Submitted by: Barbara Jeans McNabb Rt. 1, Box 319-2, Detroit, TX 75436 daughter Date: 10 Sep 2002 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** Obit of Donia Jeans- Page 6 A Texarkana Gazette, Texarkana AR-TX Donia Lee Handley Jeans, 97 of Texarkana, AR, died Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1997, in a local nursing home. Mrs Jeans was born July 18,1900 in Nashville, Ark. (Kirby, Arkansas). She was a homemaker and a charter member of Lowell street Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jeff Jeans, a daughter, Mary Fay Evans, and a son, R. J. "Bill" Jeans. Survivors include four sons, Boyce D. Jeans and Bobby W. Jeans of Oklahoma City, Sanford Jeans of Marshall, Texas, and Hiram Jeans of Texarkana; two daughters, Ella Mae Evans of Orange, Texas and Barbara McNabb of Sugar Land, Texas; 41 grandchildren; 60 great grandchildren; and 49 great-great grandchildren. Services will be 4 p.m. Saturday at Texarkana Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. O.H. Griffith and Dr. Jerry Creek officiating. Burial will be in Sylverino Cemetery. Visitation will be 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. The family will be at the Hiram Jeans home off Highway 237. Memorials may be made to Lowell Street Baptist Church, 2200 Lowell St., Texarkana, Ark 71854