Obituaries:  Jewel McNeely Chance, Sabine Parish       C-520
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Apr 17, 2002
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Jewel McNeely Chance (Photo)

  Jewel McNeely Chance was born Thursday, Sept. 12, 1912, to Henry
Floyd and Effie Jeanette Ferguson McNeely in Ward 2 of Sabine
Parish near the Little Flock Community. She graduated from
Negreet High School in 1933. She married Ottis Lee Chance, Nov.
25, 1936, in Many. She lived in the Plainview Community for 58
years. She died on April 9, 2002, in Shreveport, after a three
month illness, at the age of 89 years, six months, and 28 days.

  Preceding her in death were her father and mother, Henry Floyd
and Effie Jeanette Ferguson McNeely; sisters, Eula Sauls, Vera
Suehs, and Della Ramsey; and brothers, Floyd, John, Lester, and
Henry McNeely.

  She leaves behind, her husband of 65 years, Buck Chance; and two
daughters, Gloria Lynn Chance Leach and her husband William, and
Saundra Leigh Chance McWilliams and her husband Jimmy, all of
Keithville. Her three grandchildren, and seven great
grandchildren, who love and miss their Granny, are Colleen Marie
Leach McDaniel, her husband Mickey, and their three children,
Elijah Russell, Olivia Fontaine, and Levi William of Keithville;
William Glynn Leach, his wife Vicki, and their children, Victoria
Su, and Marshall Glynn of Keithville; and Fontaine Lynn Leach
Simmons, her husband Keith, and their children, William Cole, and
Cassidy Lynn of Stonewall.

  Also surviving her are two sisters, Norma Richardson, and Lena
Bond, both of Bossier City; and one brother, Leman McNeely of
Many.

  A host of relatives, cherished friends, and wonderful neighbors,
who loved and respected her, will miss her in ways that only time
will tell.

  Pallbearers were her nephews, Bobby Chance, Ronnie Chance, Roy
Dowden, Clyde McNeely, Mike Richardson, nephews, cousin, Todd
McNeely.

  Honorary pallbearers were Gene Cabra, Jerry Corley, Carroll
Ellzey, Victor Ellzey, Leo Fitzenreiter, and Robert Ed Williams.

  Warren Meadows, Many, La.