Submitted by James Likens


Mrs Stella Ella Jenkins

Mrs Stella Ella Jenkins, 90, 210 Park Street, Lindale, died Tuesday in a Rome rest home following an extended illness.
She was born in Floyd County on 29 Oct 1885, dauther of the late John W. and Florence Cargle Carpenter. Her husband, the late John Jenkins, died in December 1962. She was a retired emplohyee of the WestPoint Pepperell Manufacturing Co and a member of the Friendship Baptist Church.
Funeral services will be held at 2 pm Thursday at the Friendship Baptist Church with the Revs Amos Mashburn and Bob Patterson officiating. Burial will follow in the East View Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the church from 1 pm until 2 pm Thursday.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Laura Sims, Lindale, Mrs. Vera West, Rome; two sons David Jenkins and John S. Jenkins, both of Rome; one sister, Mrs. Pearl Emorhy, Lindale, eight grand children, five great-grandchldren.
Pallbearers are Herbert Warren, Hugh Hubbard, Carl Walker, Ray Ott, Leroy Phelps, Cecil Cannon, Grady Abney, Horace Kennington, A.J. Wheeler and Bill Wheeler.
The family will receive friends at the Henderson-Frazier Funeral Home from 7 until 9 pm today.

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