Kern County CA Archives Obituaries.....Thomas , Mary Jeannine Stout December 31, 2005
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The Tehachapi News
Mary Jeannine Stout Thomas 

Aug. 10, 1936 – Dec. 31, 2005

Mary Jeannine Stout Thomas was born in Mansfield, Mo. to Russell and Pansy 
Stout a few minutes after her twin sister, Janice. The family moved to Orange 
County in 1940, to Keene when they were 8, then to Hart Flat’s Clear Creek B 
Ranch. 

Jeannine was blessed to be born into a Godly home and at 14 came to know 
Christ as her savior. She attended Keene Elementary School and graduated with 
honors from Tehachapi High School in 1954. She earned her associates degree at 
Bakersfield Junior College, at the same time working for attorney Curtis 
Darling in Bakersfield before transferring to UC Berkeley.

In 1960 she married Carl Thomas. They resided in Berkeley where she earned a 
bachelor’s degree in home economics from San Francisco State in 1961 before 
moving to Santa Barbara where their daughters, Carole and Annette, were born.

Divorced in 1969, Jeannine and her daughters lived briefly with her twin and 
children in Richmond, then moved to Bakersfield where she was employed as a 
substitute teacher. In 1972 she accepted a position with South Lake Tahoe’s 
Social Services Department and worked there for 20 years in both child and 
adult protective services. She was well liked by co-workers and her clients 
responded to the gentleness, patience and respect with which she treated them 
with kinds words and tokens of appreciation.

Jeannine had a great love of family; she also enjoyed reading, cooking, 
gardening, camping and the ever-changing drama of South Lake Tahoe’s seasons. 
She taught her daughters the value of hard work, education and self-reliance. 
She also stressed the importance of knowing God and that having a close 
relationship with the Lord was necessary for true success in life. 

In the early 1990s, with failing health, Jeannine retired on medical 
disability and moved to Napa to assist her twin sister and to deal with her 
sister’s health limitations. When Janice died in 1999, Jeannine moved to 
Bakersfield. A year later she moved to Pollock Pines to be near her sister, 
Geleta Lucas.

After a long struggle with crippling diabetes and congestive heart failure, 
Jeannine passed into eternal life with the Father in the early hours of New 
Year’s Eve. She was laid to rest in Napa. She will be greatly missed by loved 
ones and remembered for her devotion to family, her wonderful sense of humor 
and her great kindness and unselfish generosity to others.

Jeannine was preceded in death by her father, Russell Stout and her twin 
sister, Janice Stout Moore. She is survived by her mother, Pansy Stout of 
Bakersfield; sisters, Geleta Lucas of Camino and Evelyn Childress of 
Bakersfield; daughters, Carole Zundel of Kuna, Idaho and Annette Cottman of 
Fairfield; grandchildren, Kyle Zundel; Andrew and Holly Cottman; and many 
nieces and nephews.



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Posted with permission from The Tehachapi News
http://www.tehachapinews.com/obits.html
Volume 106 - No. 49 
March 22-28, 2006 
   


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