Palestine High School Alumni Association

Minnie Lee Neel Jenkins 1933
Born 08-12-1914
Died 08-07-2007
Age  92

Minnie Lee Neel Jenkins, 92, died Tuesday, August 7, 2007, in Prescott, Ariz.

Minnie Lee was born August 12, 1914, on the old home place outside of Palestine, Texas, to John and Rutha Neel.

She moved to Washington, D.C., during World War II and worked as a stenographer at the Navy Department. There she met William Alfred Jenkins who also worked at the Navy Department and lived in the same boarding home across from Georgetown University.

They married on Aug. 3, 1946, and Minnie Lee became mother to Al’s two daughters, Virginia Jenkins and Judy Jenkins. Minnie Lee and Al had two children of their own; John and Ruth.

When Al retired from the Department of Transportation, Military Service they moved to Elkhart, Texas. After Al’s death, Minnie Lee moved in with Ruth and her husband, Bob Evans, to help raise her grandchildren, Jennifer and William. She has lived with Bob and Ruth ever since, until she entered a nursing home in mid-June of this year.

Survivors include her children, Virginia Kaye, Judy Jenkins, John Jenkins, and Ruth and Bob Evans; grandchildren, Jennifer Evans; Bill and Karolyn Evans; Laura and David Casey; Lisa and Bruce Northey; and one great grandchild; Jessica Northey.

Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Land of Memory Cemetery with the Rev. Buddy Evans officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Bailey & Foster Funeral Home, Palestine.

Source: Palestine Herald-Press 08-11-2007