Jenny Lou Bankhead, a Senior Legal Assistant at Baker Hughes Incorporated, died peacefully on Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, at M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston. She was 54.
Ms. Bankhead's death followed a three-year battle with cancer.
Born and raised in Tyler. Ms. Bankhead graduated from John Tyler High School in 1971. A 1975 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Ms. Bankhead was a social worker in the Tyler area during the late 1970s.
In 1981. she began a second career as a sales assistant at E.F. Hutton and Company in Austin. where she worked until becoming an operations manager at Dean Witter Reynolds Incorporated in 1984.
Continuing to pursue her evolving interests, Ms. Bankhead earned a Paralegal Certificate from Southwest Texas State University in 1989.
From June 1989 until her death, she worked as a legal assistant for firms in Austin, including Graves. Dougherty, Hearon & Moody, P.C., and in Houston, where she moved in 2000. At Baker Hughes
Incorporated, she assisted real estate counsel in providing corporate legal support for global oil field services.
After an extended courtship, she and Paul W. Jones of Austin were united in marriage on June 19. 1993.
She was preceded in death by her parents. Dr. and Mrs. A.J. Bankhead. She is survived by Paul W. Jones,her devoted husband of 14 years: her sisters, Sara Shepherd (Tyler), Judy Bankhead (Arp), Kathy Seitzman (Austin) and Molly Bankhead (Arp); her stepchildren, Amy Kupfer (Austin), Melissa Harris (LaGrange) and Nathan Jones
(Kyle); and five grandchildren; her nieces, Rachel Shepherd (San Antonio) and Lyn Shepherd (Houston); and her nephews, Nathan and
Adam Seitzman (Austin).
A graveside service wil1 be held on Saturday. Sept. 22, at 1 p.m. at Cathedral in the Pines with arrangements being made by Lloyd James
Funeral Home in Tyler. Pallbearers will be her husband, Paul W. Jones, and members of her family's next generation, Amy Kupfer, Melissa Harris, Nathan Jones, Rachel Shepherd, Lyn Shepherd, Nathan Seitzman, Adam Seitzman and Laura Ramsel. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to The Boys and Girls Clubs of America in Austin.
Published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph on 9/21/2007.
Ms. Bankhead's death followed a three-year battle with cancer.
Born and raised in Tyler. Ms. Bankhead graduated from John Tyler High School in 1971. A 1975 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Ms. Bankhead was a social worker in the Tyler area during the late 1970s.
In 1981. she began a second career as a sales assistant at E.F. Hutton and Company in Austin. where she worked until becoming an operations manager at Dean Witter Reynolds Incorporated in 1984.
Continuing to pursue her evolving interests, Ms. Bankhead earned a Paralegal Certificate from Southwest Texas State University in 1989.
From June 1989 until her death, she worked as a legal assistant for firms in Austin, including Graves. Dougherty, Hearon & Moody, P.C., and in Houston, where she moved in 2000. At Baker Hughes
Incorporated, she assisted real estate counsel in providing corporate legal support for global oil field services.
After an extended courtship, she and Paul W. Jones of Austin were united in marriage on June 19. 1993.
She was preceded in death by her parents. Dr. and Mrs. A.J. Bankhead. She is survived by Paul W. Jones,her devoted husband of 14 years: her sisters, Sara Shepherd (Tyler), Judy Bankhead (Arp), Kathy Seitzman (Austin) and Molly Bankhead (Arp); her stepchildren, Amy Kupfer (Austin), Melissa Harris (LaGrange) and Nathan Jones
(Kyle); and five grandchildren; her nieces, Rachel Shepherd (San Antonio) and Lyn Shepherd (Houston); and her nephews, Nathan and
Adam Seitzman (Austin).
A graveside service wil1 be held on Saturday. Sept. 22, at 1 p.m. at Cathedral in the Pines with arrangements being made by Lloyd James
Funeral Home in Tyler. Pallbearers will be her husband, Paul W. Jones, and members of her family's next generation, Amy Kupfer, Melissa Harris, Nathan Jones, Rachel Shepherd, Lyn Shepherd, Nathan Seitzman, Adam Seitzman and Laura Ramsel. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to The Boys and Girls Clubs of America in Austin.
Published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph on 9/21/2007.
Jenny Lou Bankhead, a Senior Legal Assistant at Baker Hughes Incorporated, died peacefully on Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, at M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston. She was 54.
Ms. Bankhead's death followed a three-year battle with cancer.
Born and raised in Tyler. Ms. Bankhead graduated from John Tyler High School in 1971. A 1975 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Ms. Bankhead was a social worker in the Tyler area during the late 1970s.
In 1981. she began a second career as a sales assistant at E.F. Hutton and Company in Austin. where she worked until becoming an operations manager at Dean Witter Reynolds Incorporated in 1984.
Continuing to pursue her evolving interests, Ms. Bankhead earned a Paralegal Certificate from Southwest Texas State University in 1989.
From June 1989 until her death, she worked as a legal assistant for firms in Austin, including Graves. Dougherty, Hearon & Moody, P.C., and in Houston, where she moved in 2000. At Baker Hughes
Incorporated, she assisted real estate counsel in providing corporate legal support for global oil field services.
After an extended courtship, she and Paul W. Jones of Austin were united in marriage on June 19. 1993.
She was preceded in death by her parents. Dr. and Mrs. A.J. Bankhead. She is survived by Paul W. Jones,her devoted husband of 14 years: her sisters, Sara Shepherd (Tyler), Judy Bankhead (Arp), Kathy Seitzman (Austin) and Molly Bankhead (Arp); her stepchildren, Amy Kupfer (Austin), Melissa Harris (LaGrange) and Nathan Jones
(Kyle); and five grandchildren; her nieces, Rachel Shepherd (San Antonio) and Lyn Shepherd (Houston); and her nephews, Nathan and
Adam Seitzman (Austin).
A graveside service wil1 be held on Saturday. Sept. 22, at 1 p.m. at Cathedral in the Pines with arrangements being made by Lloyd James
Funeral Home in Tyler. Pallbearers will be her husband, Paul W. Jones, and members of her family's next generation, Amy Kupfer, Melissa Harris, Nathan Jones, Rachel Shepherd, Lyn Shepherd, Nathan Seitzman, Adam Seitzman and Laura Ramsel. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to The Boys and Girls Clubs of America in Austin.
Published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph on 9/21/2007.
Ms. Bankhead's death followed a three-year battle with cancer.
Born and raised in Tyler. Ms. Bankhead graduated from John Tyler High School in 1971. A 1975 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Ms. Bankhead was a social worker in the Tyler area during the late 1970s.
In 1981. she began a second career as a sales assistant at E.F. Hutton and Company in Austin. where she worked until becoming an operations manager at Dean Witter Reynolds Incorporated in 1984.
Continuing to pursue her evolving interests, Ms. Bankhead earned a Paralegal Certificate from Southwest Texas State University in 1989.
From June 1989 until her death, she worked as a legal assistant for firms in Austin, including Graves. Dougherty, Hearon & Moody, P.C., and in Houston, where she moved in 2000. At Baker Hughes
Incorporated, she assisted real estate counsel in providing corporate legal support for global oil field services.
After an extended courtship, she and Paul W. Jones of Austin were united in marriage on June 19. 1993.
She was preceded in death by her parents. Dr. and Mrs. A.J. Bankhead. She is survived by Paul W. Jones,her devoted husband of 14 years: her sisters, Sara Shepherd (Tyler), Judy Bankhead (Arp), Kathy Seitzman (Austin) and Molly Bankhead (Arp); her stepchildren, Amy Kupfer (Austin), Melissa Harris (LaGrange) and Nathan Jones
(Kyle); and five grandchildren; her nieces, Rachel Shepherd (San Antonio) and Lyn Shepherd (Houston); and her nephews, Nathan and
Adam Seitzman (Austin).
A graveside service wil1 be held on Saturday. Sept. 22, at 1 p.m. at Cathedral in the Pines with arrangements being made by Lloyd James
Funeral Home in Tyler. Pallbearers will be her husband, Paul W. Jones, and members of her family's next generation, Amy Kupfer, Melissa Harris, Nathan Jones, Rachel Shepherd, Lyn Shepherd, Nathan Seitzman, Adam Seitzman and Laura Ramsel. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to The Boys and Girls Clubs of America in Austin.
Published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph on 9/21/2007.
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