Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Saturday, January 26, 2002

OLIVE JENKINS DEJEAN

Edmonds Funeral Home
Jonesboro, LA

HODGE, LA - Olive Jenkins DeJean, 98, of Hodge, LA was born on October 29, 1903 in Winnfield, LA and died Wednesday, January 23, 2002 at Lincoln General Hospital.

Services will be at Hodge Baptist Church on January 26, 2002 at 3PM with Rev. Walter Rogers and Bro. Dwayne M. Boudreaux officiating. Interment will be at Jonesboro Cemetery on Country Road.

Mrs. DeJean was a retired Post Mistress. She was preceded in death by her husband, Fernand A. DeJean; her parents, James Edward Jenkins and Martha Marina Peters; five brothers, Joseph Mallory Jenkins, Sion Edward Jenkins, George Wallace Jenkins, James Riley Jenkins, and William Amos Jenkins; and three sisters, Eva Hughes, Ella McDowell, and Lela Harlan.

Survivors include her son, Fano DeJean and wife Patricia of Corsicana, TX; daughters, Nell Melton and husband Jim of Baton Rouge, LA, and Loraine Rogers of Hodge, LA; ten grandchildren; 18 great grandchildren and 18 great-great grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Bobby Brinson, Jim Finton, Wilfred Foster, Travis Hall, Richard Johnson, Bobby Schmidt, Troy Smith, and Joey Tait.

Honorary pallbearers will be Hewell Heard, Dewitt Jones, Everett Odom, Lamonte Templeton, and the Deacons of the Hodge Baptist Church.