Jessie Mae Wood

Jessie Mae Lee (Cox) Wood, 88, was born May 26, 1922 near Doole, TX to David Sylvester and Rosa Leona Cox. She was the youngest of eleven children who were raised on a farm in McCulloch County where she attended school.

World War II was in full swing when Jessie Mae went to join her sister Virgie working as a “Rosie the Riveter” on B24 bombers in Fort Worth, TX. Near the end of the war, Jessie married Horace B. (Babe) Wood on September 11, 1944, in Ballinger, TX. They settled in Ballinger where they raised three children. She worked as a homemaker most of her life. She also worked at Twilight Acres Nursing Home in Ballinger. She took a job at the San Angelo Rehabilitation Center in Carlsbad, TX in 1978 when they moved to Carlsbad. She was a member of the Carlsbad Church of Christ.

Jessie Mae love God, family and friends. She loved baking and knew everyone’s favorite dessert which she would make when she knew she was going to see them. She loved to quilt and embroidery and was always working on something to give to someone else. Jessie died on November 25, 2010 at Buena Vida Nursing Facility in Odessa, TX.

She is survived by her children, Frances and Paul Warner of Odessa, Shirley and Jay Guthro of Withrop, Massachusetts, and Bill and Flora Wood of Ewa Beach, Hawaii. She is also survived by grandchildren, Michael and Lindsey Warner, Diane and Rich Stangle, Jay Guthro, Tim Wood, and Karen Wood. Jessie had five great-grandchildren, Andrew and James Stangle and Brenden, Colin, and Kaeli Wood and many nieces and nephews.

Jessie is preceded in death by her husband, H.B. (Babe), brothers, Harley, Harvey, Bud and Henry, and sisters, Mary Ellen Cox, Leona Wheeler, Josephine Tinney, Elizabeth Teters, Thelma Wood, and Virgina Moore.

A Funeral Service will be held at 10 A.M., Monday, November 30, 2010 in San Angelo, TX at Johnson’s Funeral Home Chapel. The family will receive visitors at Johnson’s Funeral Home on Sunday, November 29, 2010 from 5 to 8 P.M. Burial will be at Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens immediately after the services. Pallbearers are grandson Jay Guthro and nephews, Robert and J.B. Teters, Henry Wheeler, Gerald Tinney, and Johnny Moore. Arrangements are under the direction of Johnson’s Funeral Home.

The family would like to thank the staff at Buena Vida Nursing Facility and Hospice House of Midland for the care they extended to Jessie Mae. Donations may be made to Buena Vida Nursing Facility (4800 Englewood Odessa, TX 76762.)

Arrangements under the direction of Johnson's Funeral Home, San Angelo, TX.