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Jo Nell Wood Hawkins
26 Jan 1936 – 14 Jul 2024
| Birth | 26 Jan 1936 |
| Death | 14 Jul 2024 |
| Cemetery | Shiloh Cemetery Mexia , Limestone County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | 8675309 on 28 Oct 2024 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/274284951 |
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Jo Nell Hawkins, 88 of Shiloh, passed away on July 14, 2024 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Bryan, Texas. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. at Jones Funeral Services Chapel. Interment will follow at Shiloh Cemetery. Family visitation will be held prior to the service, starting at 10:00 a.m. Mrs. Don Hawkins (Jo Nell) was born the first child of V. C. Wood Jr. and Pauline (Wells) Wood on January 26, 1936. As the daughter of a Baptist deacon, her Christian faith began early and continued throughout her life. She was long-time member of the First Baptist Church of Mexia. Aside from a time living in the city of Mexia, she spent most of her life in Shiloh, in a house built across the pasture from her mother and daddy. She married the love of her life, Donald Ray Hawkins, on October 23, 1954 and the two of them spent 63 wonderful years together. Both Don and Jo Nell were self-proclaimed "yard people", who spent days and years cultivating their crepe myrtles and bougainvilleas and keeping an immaculate yard that eventually spread acres-wide along Hwy 39. She was known as "grandmother" to her grandchildren and "JoJo" to a few kids she kept in her home daycare for a couple of years. Others will remember her as the First Mexia Bank teller with her beautiful fresh-from-the-beauty shop hair, which she maintained along with her pretty outfits and perfect nails, up through her final days. Preceding her in death were her husband, Donald Ray Hawkins; parents, Verner Cameron Wood, Jr. and Pauline Wood and grandparents, Verner Cameron Wood, Sr. and Minnie (Byrd) Wood.
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