Obit of Newsome, Jewell Marie - Stephens County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 6 Mar 2005 Return to Stephens County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/stephens/stephens.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Duncan Banner 23 Dec 2002 Jewell Marie Newsome Service for Jewell Marie Newsome, 91, of Duncan, who died today in Wilkins Nursing Center, is pending with Bailes-Polk Funeral Home. Mrs. Newsome is the mother of Duncan resident Max Newsome. ========= Duncan Banner 24 Dec 2002 Jewell Marie Newsome Jewell Marie Newsome, 91, of Duncan died Monday, Dec. 23, 2002, in Wilkins Nursing Center. Graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Liberty Cemetery in Mt. Vernon, Texas. Interment is under the direction of Bailes-Polk Funeral Home of Duncan. Mrs. Newsome was born Dec. 1, 1911, in Mt. Vernon. She graduated from Purley High School in Purley, Texas, and attended nursing school in Austin. She married Walter Webster Newsome in Mt. Vernon, and he preceded her in death on July 27, 1987. She worked as a nurse for the Franklin County and Titus County Hospital until her retirement in 1967. She came to Duncan in 1988 to be near her son. She was a member of the Heritage Oak Church of the Nazarene and she loved to cook for her family. Survivors include her son, Max Newsome of Duncan; a granddaughter and her husband, Shirin and Shawn McDonald of Duncan; two great-grandsons, Zachary and Noah McDonald, both of Duncan; a niece, Dorothy Brown of Irvin, Texas; and a nephew, Martin Howard of Austin, Texas. She was also preceded in death by her parents, a sister and two brothers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Stephens County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/stephens/stephens.htm