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The San Angelo Standard - Times Online - October 15, 1997


JABE "JAKE" A. CALDWELL JR.
                                      
Jabe "Jake" A. Caldwell Jr., 83, of San Angelo died Tuesday, Oct. 14, 1997, in
a local hospital.
     
Service  will  be  at  10:30  a.m.  Thursday, Oct. 16, at the First Baptist
Church  Chapel with Dr. Jerold McBride officiating. Burial will  follow  in
Fairmount Cemetery. Arrangements are by Johnson's Funeral Home.
     
Jake was  born  March  15,  1914,  on  his  grandfather's  farm in Freestone
County.  He was the eldest child of Jabe A. Caldwell and Bertha Lee Caldwell.
     
Jake  claims  San Angelo as his hometown since his parents moved to San Angelo
when he was very young. He attended school in San Angelo including  San  Angelo
Junior  College  in  1932.  After finishing school,  Jake  went to work for his
father who owned the San Angelo Paint  and Wallpaper Store. In 1938, he left
San Angelo to join the Kuhn Paint Co. of Houston as sales manager of the retail
stores. In 1942,  Jake  joined  the U.S. Army Air Corps until March 1946. Jake
returned  to  the  Kuhn Paint Co. and in 1950 became vice president and sales
manager.
     
In  1960,  he  joined  the  Napko  Corp. as sales manager of retail stores.  In
1969,  Jake  returned  to  the  Kuhn Paint Co. as vice president  and  general
sales manager, as well as vice president of the  Luminal  Paint  Co.  of  Los
Angeles. In 1972, Jake joined the Kelly-Moore  Paint  Co.  of Houston as sales
manager of the Houston district.  He then moved to San Angelo because of his
wife's health and  opened  the Kelly-Moore Paint Store. In 1976, Jake 
established the Angelo Paint Supply Co. from which he retired in 1981.
     
Jake  married  Grace  (Boots) Simmons in 1939, who died in 1975. In 1977, he
married Edna Simmons Davidson, who died in 1994. In 1995, he married Anna Bell
Wiggins.
     
Survivors  include  his  wife;  one  daughter,  Nancy Ostin and one
granddaughter, Charri Ostin of High Springs, Fla.; one sister, Cleo Hicks  of
Austin;  two stepsisters, Jean Beesley of San Angelo and Patsy Smith of
Houston; seven stepchildren, Ann McGehee of Houston, Bill  Davidson of El Paso,
James Ward of Brownwood, Carlton Ward of Oklahoma City, Katrena Williams of
Odessa, O.C. Ward of De Leon and Howard Ward of San Angelo.
     
Jake  was  a  32nd  Degree  Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Masonic
Lodge  No. 570 of San Angelo. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of
San Angelo.
     
Honorary  pallbearers  will  be  the  Caleb  Class of First Baptist
Church.
     
Pallbearers  will  be  Ward Lusk, Kenneth Slate, Harvey Cosper, Joe
Schreiber, Guy White and Harold Seefeldt.