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::Union Cemetery--Bakersfield CA

Hart, Jewell

Jewell Hart was born on her grandparents farm near Paris, Texas, 
January 4, 1914 to Tom and Mary Downs. She grew up and spent her 
early adults years on farms in Texas and Oklahoma. In 1940, she, and 
her husband Herman Hart and their three children (Barbara, Yvonne, 
and Tom) came to California looking for work, but only stayed a short 
time. A year later they returned permanently with the Hart clan - 
settling first in the Wasco area and then in Bakersfield. In 1944, 
another son, Larry, was born. Herman worked for Shell Oil Company 
until his early death in 1945. Jewell's family was always the center 
her life; even in her last few days in the hospital her concerns and 
worries were not so much for herself as for her family. She was truly 
our beloved matriarch - the beloved "Mom," as we all called her, of 
children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and even great-great-
grandchildren. There are simply no words deep enough or high enough 
to express our gratitude for the ways in which she blessed our lives. 
She was a woman of integrity who had deep feelings for other people. 
She never considered any task beneath her if it would help someone 
else. Jewell was a woman with a strong intellect and personality, and 
retained her mental sharpness to the end of her life. Through the 
years she encountered many difficulties, hardships, and sorrows. Last 
February her oldest daughter, Barbara, died and then her second 
daughter, Yvonne, in early April. She had a profound faith not only 
in the existence but also in the goodness of God, and it is that 
faith that always saw her through whatever life brought her way and 
enabled her to see that her life was blessed. She was a member of the 
Church of Christ. Jewell died of congestive heart failure on Friday, 
September 22. She was ninety-two-years old. Up to the time she went 
into the hospital at the end of July, she lived at home where she was 
cared for by her son, Tom Hart. She is survived by her two sons, Tom 
and Larry; by eight grandchildren, Patricia Parmley Lewis, Bob 
Parmley, Jerry Pool, Tawnya Pool Pace, Maurine Hart Bekaert, Kathryn 
Hart, Don Hart, and Carolyn Hart; and by sixteen great- 
grandchildren, Jason Lewis, Roberta Lewis Williams and Patrick Lewis, 
Shei Parmley Brown, and Robert Parmley, Justin and Josh Pool, Nicole 
Sizemore -Pace, and Tyler Pace, Augustine Rosales, Gabriel and Laeila 
Bekaert, by Dashiell and Camille Hart, and Autumn and Asher 
Goldstein; and by eleven great-great-grandchildren, Sydney and 
Allyson, Raquel, Wade, Nathan, Grace and Cole and Zachary, Robert, 
Colton and Cambria. Services will be held in Greenlawn Memorial 
Chapel, 3700 River Blvd., at 10:00 a.m, Thursday, September 28. 
Following the memorial service she will be buried with Herman at 
Union Cemetery, King and Potomac Streets. Jewell V. Hart Jan. 4, 1914 
- Sept. 22, 2006 Greenlawn Mortuary

Published in the Bakersfield Californian on 9/26/2006.
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