Jo Bilbrey Thomas Kincaid
August 30, 1927 - December 16, 2020
MUNCIE – Jo Bilbrey Thomas Kincaid, age 93, died on December 16, 2020 in Indianapolis.
She was born August 30, 1927 in McMinnville, Tennessee to Leo and Ethel Lee Bilbrey. When she was three years old, her parents moved to Muncie where she spent the rest of her life.
Jo was a “Daddy’s Girl” and she enjoyed running the cash register at her father’s service station on the corner of Willard and Macedonia. That experience became an important foreshadow to her personal and professional life. Her father hired a quiet nice looking young man named Merrill Thomas to work at the station. When Merrill returned from WWII, he asked Jo Bilbrey to marry him and they remained married for 43 years. Merrill and Jo had one child, David, but he lived only 12 days and was never healthy enough to leave the hospital. Nine days after David went to heaven, the family doctor asked if Merrill and Jo wanted to adopt a baby. They said “yes” and six hours later the doctor brought Susan Jo Thomas to their home on Burlington Drive. Jo and Merrill spent the rest of their lives giving their only child copious amounts of love, attention, and devotion.
Running the cash register was a prediction of Jo’s career path as well. While attending Muncie Central High School, she began working part-time at Mutual Home Savings and Loan (now Northwest). Once she graduated, she was hired full-time and retired from Mutual in 1992. In 1990, she fell in love with a retired postman who worked part-time at Mutual Bank. John ‘Andy’ Kincaid asked her on a date and then sent two dozen red roses the next day. Susan Jo was studying at IU at the time and her mother drove from Muncie to Bloomington to share half the roses with her. Within months, Andy asked permission from Jo’s mother and daughter to marry her. They had a big wedding and the most fun and love a couple can have until Andy died in 2012.
Jo was preceded in death by her parents, and her only sibling, Frank Bilbrey who drowned in 1985. She is survived by Susan Jo and her life partner of 25 years, Annette Butler. She has nieces and nephews across the country, but Gloria and Pat Hobson and their daughter, Becki, live in Yorktown. The Hobson’s loved and assisted with care for “Aunt Joey” often.
As Jo’s health and confidence began to wane, she frequently stayed with Susan Jo and Annette in Indianapolis. Jo’s room has the bedroom furniture her father gave her when she turned 16. The room is decorated with pink and red roses and many of the items she loved from her own home. She loved flowers and birds and anything with a designer label.
No services will be held due to COVID precautions.
Please send donations to her church, Riverside Avenue Baptist in Muncie or to Covering Kids & Families of Indiana, a nonprofit organization that she loved very much.
The Meeks Mortuary and Crematory, Washington Street Chapel is in charge of arrangements and online condolences may be sent to the family at www.meeksmortuary.com.
August 30, 1927 - December 16, 2020
MUNCIE – Jo Bilbrey Thomas Kincaid, age 93, died on December 16, 2020 in Indianapolis.
She was born August 30, 1927 in McMinnville, Tennessee to Leo and Ethel Lee Bilbrey. When she was three years old, her parents moved to Muncie where she spent the rest of her life.
Jo was a “Daddy’s Girl” and she enjoyed running the cash register at her father’s service station on the corner of Willard and Macedonia. That experience became an important foreshadow to her personal and professional life. Her father hired a quiet nice looking young man named Merrill Thomas to work at the station. When Merrill returned from WWII, he asked Jo Bilbrey to marry him and they remained married for 43 years. Merrill and Jo had one child, David, but he lived only 12 days and was never healthy enough to leave the hospital. Nine days after David went to heaven, the family doctor asked if Merrill and Jo wanted to adopt a baby. They said “yes” and six hours later the doctor brought Susan Jo Thomas to their home on Burlington Drive. Jo and Merrill spent the rest of their lives giving their only child copious amounts of love, attention, and devotion.
Running the cash register was a prediction of Jo’s career path as well. While attending Muncie Central High School, she began working part-time at Mutual Home Savings and Loan (now Northwest). Once she graduated, she was hired full-time and retired from Mutual in 1992. In 1990, she fell in love with a retired postman who worked part-time at Mutual Bank. John ‘Andy’ Kincaid asked her on a date and then sent two dozen red roses the next day. Susan Jo was studying at IU at the time and her mother drove from Muncie to Bloomington to share half the roses with her. Within months, Andy asked permission from Jo’s mother and daughter to marry her. They had a big wedding and the most fun and love a couple can have until Andy died in 2012.
Jo was preceded in death by her parents, and her only sibling, Frank Bilbrey who drowned in 1985. She is survived by Susan Jo and her life partner of 25 years, Annette Butler. She has nieces and nephews across the country, but Gloria and Pat Hobson and their daughter, Becki, live in Yorktown. The Hobson’s loved and assisted with care for “Aunt Joey” often.
As Jo’s health and confidence began to wane, she frequently stayed with Susan Jo and Annette in Indianapolis. Jo’s room has the bedroom furniture her father gave her when she turned 16. The room is decorated with pink and red roses and many of the items she loved from her own home. She loved flowers and birds and anything with a designer label.
No services will be held due to COVID precautions.
Please send donations to her church, Riverside Avenue Baptist in Muncie or to Covering Kids & Families of Indiana, a nonprofit organization that she loved very much.
The Meeks Mortuary and Crematory, Washington Street Chapel is in charge of arrangements and online condolences may be sent to the family at www.meeksmortuary.com.
Jo Bilbrey Thomas Kincaid
August 30, 1927 - December 16, 2020
MUNCIE – Jo Bilbrey Thomas Kincaid, age 93, died on December 16, 2020 in Indianapolis.
She was born August 30, 1927 in McMinnville, Tennessee to Leo and Ethel Lee Bilbrey. When she was three years old, her parents moved to Muncie where she spent the rest of her life.
Jo was a “Daddy’s Girl” and she enjoyed running the cash register at her father’s service station on the corner of Willard and Macedonia. That experience became an important foreshadow to her personal and professional life. Her father hired a quiet nice looking young man named Merrill Thomas to work at the station. When Merrill returned from WWII, he asked Jo Bilbrey to marry him and they remained married for 43 years. Merrill and Jo had one child, David, but he lived only 12 days and was never healthy enough to leave the hospital. Nine days after David went to heaven, the family doctor asked if Merrill and Jo wanted to adopt a baby. They said “yes” and six hours later the doctor brought Susan Jo Thomas to their home on Burlington Drive. Jo and Merrill spent the rest of their lives giving their only child copious amounts of love, attention, and devotion.
Running the cash register was a prediction of Jo’s career path as well. While attending Muncie Central High School, she began working part-time at Mutual Home Savings and Loan (now Northwest). Once she graduated, she was hired full-time and retired from Mutual in 1992. In 1990, she fell in love with a retired postman who worked part-time at Mutual Bank. John ‘Andy’ Kincaid asked her on a date and then sent two dozen red roses the next day. Susan Jo was studying at IU at the time and her mother drove from Muncie to Bloomington to share half the roses with her. Within months, Andy asked permission from Jo’s mother and daughter to marry her. They had a big wedding and the most fun and love a couple can have until Andy died in 2012.
Jo was preceded in death by her parents, and her only sibling, Frank Bilbrey who drowned in 1985. She is survived by Susan Jo and her life partner of 25 years, Annette Butler. She has nieces and nephews across the country, but Gloria and Pat Hobson and their daughter, Becki, live in Yorktown. The Hobson’s loved and assisted with care for “Aunt Joey” often.
As Jo’s health and confidence began to wane, she frequently stayed with Susan Jo and Annette in Indianapolis. Jo’s room has the bedroom furniture her father gave her when she turned 16. The room is decorated with pink and red roses and many of the items she loved from her own home. She loved flowers and birds and anything with a designer label.
No services will be held due to COVID precautions.
Please send donations to her church, Riverside Avenue Baptist in Muncie or to Covering Kids & Families of Indiana, a nonprofit organization that she loved very much.
The Meeks Mortuary and Crematory, Washington Street Chapel is in charge of arrangements and online condolences may be sent to the family at www.meeksmortuary.com.
August 30, 1927 - December 16, 2020
MUNCIE – Jo Bilbrey Thomas Kincaid, age 93, died on December 16, 2020 in Indianapolis.
She was born August 30, 1927 in McMinnville, Tennessee to Leo and Ethel Lee Bilbrey. When she was three years old, her parents moved to Muncie where she spent the rest of her life.
Jo was a “Daddy’s Girl” and she enjoyed running the cash register at her father’s service station on the corner of Willard and Macedonia. That experience became an important foreshadow to her personal and professional life. Her father hired a quiet nice looking young man named Merrill Thomas to work at the station. When Merrill returned from WWII, he asked Jo Bilbrey to marry him and they remained married for 43 years. Merrill and Jo had one child, David, but he lived only 12 days and was never healthy enough to leave the hospital. Nine days after David went to heaven, the family doctor asked if Merrill and Jo wanted to adopt a baby. They said “yes” and six hours later the doctor brought Susan Jo Thomas to their home on Burlington Drive. Jo and Merrill spent the rest of their lives giving their only child copious amounts of love, attention, and devotion.
Running the cash register was a prediction of Jo’s career path as well. While attending Muncie Central High School, she began working part-time at Mutual Home Savings and Loan (now Northwest). Once she graduated, she was hired full-time and retired from Mutual in 1992. In 1990, she fell in love with a retired postman who worked part-time at Mutual Bank. John ‘Andy’ Kincaid asked her on a date and then sent two dozen red roses the next day. Susan Jo was studying at IU at the time and her mother drove from Muncie to Bloomington to share half the roses with her. Within months, Andy asked permission from Jo’s mother and daughter to marry her. They had a big wedding and the most fun and love a couple can have until Andy died in 2012.
Jo was preceded in death by her parents, and her only sibling, Frank Bilbrey who drowned in 1985. She is survived by Susan Jo and her life partner of 25 years, Annette Butler. She has nieces and nephews across the country, but Gloria and Pat Hobson and their daughter, Becki, live in Yorktown. The Hobson’s loved and assisted with care for “Aunt Joey” often.
As Jo’s health and confidence began to wane, she frequently stayed with Susan Jo and Annette in Indianapolis. Jo’s room has the bedroom furniture her father gave her when she turned 16. The room is decorated with pink and red roses and many of the items she loved from her own home. She loved flowers and birds and anything with a designer label.
No services will be held due to COVID precautions.
Please send donations to her church, Riverside Avenue Baptist in Muncie or to Covering Kids & Families of Indiana, a nonprofit organization that she loved very much.
The Meeks Mortuary and Crematory, Washington Street Chapel is in charge of arrangements and online condolences may be sent to the family at www.meeksmortuary.com.
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