Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....POTTS, MARY JEAN EDGEMON August 27, 2016
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News Star World - September 16, 2016
MARY JEAN EDGEMON POTTS

Mary Jean Edgemon Potts was born August 19, 1927 to William Calvin Edgemon 
and Olive Elizabeth Pittman Edgemon in Venice, Florida. She left this world 
for Heaven August 27, 2016 after a brief illness in Houston, Texas. She will 
be remembered for her love, her kindness, her wit, her sense of style, and 
her gifted teaching. 

She is survived by a daughter, Paula Jean Potts Stockton, wife of Douglas 
Stockton of Longview, Texas, and by a son, Dr. James B. Potts, III, husband 
of Roxanne Marlowe Potts, of Jackson, Mississippi, as well as two 
granddaughters, Ashley Michelle Bain Montgomery and her husband, Matthew 
Montgomery, of Waco, Texas; and Jean Nicole Bain Dincans and her husband, 
Kyle, of Hockley, Texas. She is also survived by four great-grandchildren, 
Landry Bowers, Cooper Bowers, McKinley Jean Dincans, and Kenedy Montgomery. 

After graduation from Coffee High School in Florence, Alabama, she attended 
Auburn University, where she pledged Kappa Delta Sorority. After completing 
her Bachelor of Education degree at Florence State Teachers College, she 
taught in Jasper, Alabama; Yakima, Washington; and Oxford, Mississippi. An 
extraordinary teacher who enriched many lives, she later completed a 
Master's of Education degree at the University of Mississippi and taught 
elementary and middle school at Ouachita Christian School in Monroe, 
Louisiana.

She retired to Longview, Texas in 1993 to be near Paula and family. For 
several years after moving, she worked at Piney Woods Gymnastics Center in 
Longview. She was a lifelong member of the Church of Christ.

The family wishes to thank the Elkins Funeral Home staff in Florence for 
their assistance and support during this difficult time. A service will be 
conducted by Brian Giselbach of the Wood Avenue Church of Christ on 
Saturday, September 17th at 2:00 at the Florence Cemetery. For further 
information: (256) 764-0221 or elkinsfuneralhome.com.

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