Obituary of Jessie Pauline Jenkins Carroll, former resident of Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by Robert A. Carroll, 11/2004


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Obituary of Jessie Pauline Jenkins Carroll, former resident of Union Parish Louisiana

Ruston Daily Leader, issue of 15 February 2004
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Jessie Pauline Jenkins Carroll, retired school teacher and homemaker died Friday, Feb. 
13, 2004, at Leslie Lakes Retirement Center (in Arcadia). Mrs. Carroll was born Dec. 7, 
1900, to William Whitehead and Wessie Floy Gipson in Pelahatchie, Mississippi. 
Aunt Polly was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Carl Carroll of Marion, 
LA., and her only child, a son, Courtney Lane. As well by her brother, James Greenberry 
Jenkins, sisters Emma Cornelia Jenkins Calhoun, Mable Jenkins Sanderson, Nancy 
Melinda (Lynn) Jenkins Woodard, her niece, Annie Merle Jenkins Hogan, and her 
nephew, James Alton Jenkins. Aunt Polly is fondly remembered by numerous great 
nieces and nephews. 

She is survived by one sister, Ruth Jenkins Beard of Arcadia. There were also nieces, 
Billie June Sanderson Holt of Austin, Texas, Gloria Dawn Sanderson, of Tomball, Texas, 
Joycalyn Ann Beard Skinner, and Mell Rose Woodard Storey, both of Arcadia. There 
were likewise nephews, Alton Calhoun of West Monroe, and Jack Calhoun, of Houston, 
Texas. 

Aunt Polly endeared herself to her nieces and nephews, particularly by the loving care 
she gave to her young son, Courtney Lane, in the brief years of his life. She made her 
home in Marion before moving to Arcadia about 20 years ago. 

A commitment service will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday afternoon, in Rose-Neath Chapel, 
with visitation beginning at 1 p.m.  

Interment will be in the Alabama Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Sibley, LA. directly 
following. Reverend Lamar Skinner will officiate. 

John 14:3 "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you 
unto myself, that where I am, you may be also."

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Note: Pauline was the second wife of Albert Carlton Carroll (1891 - 1961). Carl was a 
lifelong resident of Marion and is buried in Union-Sadie Cemetery. He married his first 
wife Addie Burns (c1895 - 1926, buried Union-Sadie Cemetery) in 1913 and they 
had four children: A. Lavelle Carroll (b. about 1915); Mary F. Carroll (b. 1917-d. 1988 in 
Marion), married Gordon H. Day in 1940; James V. Carroll (1920 - 2002 in Jefferson 
Parish), married Eloise Mayeauz in 1944; and Konia Carroll (b. about 1923), married 
unknown Houser.  Carl and Pauline married in 1928 and had only one child Courtney 
Lane Carroll (b. 1930-d. 1941 in Union Parish).

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