Extracted from The Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, TX)
Wednesday, November 5, 2003

Jessie Aleta Porter Hanes

Jessie Aleta Porter Hanes, 81, of Sweetwater, died Monday, Nov. 3, 2003 at Hendrick Medical Center.

Graveside services will be held Thursday, Nov. 6, 2003 at 10 a.m. at Roscoe Cemetery. Reverend Lyndel Hix and Reverend James Baker will be officiating. Arrangements were made with Cate-Spencer and Trent Funeral Home.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2003 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Mrs. Hanes was born Nov. 29, 1921 in Blanket, Texas. She married Grover Morris Hanes, Aug. 14, 1940 in Sweetwater. She was a homemaker and a member of Broadway Baptist Church.

She is survived by her husband, Grover Morris Hanes of Sweetwater; daughter and son-in-law, Linda Jean Oakes and husband Danny Dickinson; a brother and sister-in-law, Jud Porter and wife Mary of Denver, Colo.; a sister, Kate Richards of Phoenix; three grandchildren, Billy Henrich, Steven Woody, and Pam Thompson.

She was preceded in death by one daughter, Peggy Woody; a sister, Gladys Gunn.