RUTH STEVENS GUNTER JENKINS

Funeral for Ruth Stevens Gunter Jenkins, 85, was at 2 p.m. Thursday at Autry Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Randall Birdsong officiating. Burial was in Lakeview Memorial Gardens in Longview.

Mrs. Jenkins died Oct. 29. She was born Feb. 26, 1922, in Turney to the late George David and Mary Alice Caveness Smith.

She was a school teacher for more than 30 years at Turney, Gaston and Pine Tree elementary schools. She was a member of the Jacksonville Garden Club, Cherokee County Retired Teachers Association, Wednesday Study Club and Ponta First Baptist Church where she served as church clerk.

Mrs. Jenkins was preceded in death by her parents, Dave and Alice Smith; a brother, David O'Brien Smith; her first husband, Harvey L. Stevens Jr.; second husband, Edwin D. Gunter; third husband, Carl Jenkins; and step-granddaughters, Jana Herrera and Sarah Solis.

Survivors are two sons and daughters-in-law, Thomas Kim and Kay Stevens of Jacksonville and Mark and Sharon Stevens of Flint; a sister, Oleta Smith Gray of Bonner Place; granddaughters, Stephanie and Kenny Sessions of Jacksonville, Jennifer Stevens and Kimberly Stevens of Seabrook; grandsons, Toby Kyle Stevens and Michael Stevens of Jacksonville; great-grandchildren, Jordan and Sean Anderson, Conner Sessions and Keira Stevens; step-daughters, Sarah Jenkins Edwards of Hughes Springs, and Carla Jenkins Zuecher of Daingerfield.

Pallbearers were Russell Smith, Bobby Dee Caveness, Louis Caveness, Willie D. Wilkinson, Bill Beranek, Larry Stegall and Jimmy Caveness. Honorary Pallbearers were Luman Holman, Tom Dean Stevens, R.L. McDonald, A.C. Jenkins, C.L. Newburn and Paul Haws.