Eva Jean Sears

Memorial services will be at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at St Paul United Methodist Church with Reverend Perry Hunsaker and Reverend Scott Raines officiating.. Arrangements are by Griggs Schooler Gordon Funeral Directors, 5400 Bell.

Private family interment will be at Memorial Park Cemetery

Jean was born January 3, 1929 in Reeds Spring, MO to Frank C. and Madge L. Rudd Sims and was the eldest of ten children. She worked at the Bureau of Reclamation in Sacramento, CA where she met Melvin Forrest Sears. They married on January 15, 1955. The couple moved to Amarillo in 1972 where Jean was employed by the State Comptroller’s Office. Jean attended St. Paul United Methodist Church and was a longtime member of the Covenant Sunday School Class. She enjoyed playing in couple’s and women’s bridge clubs, and entertaining for parties and holidays. Jean’s greatest joy was time spent with her family and friends. She was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother who will be dearly missed.

Jean was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two brothers and a sister.

Jean is survived by her daughters, Margaret Graham and Carolyn Jorden and husband Glenn; three special grandchildren, Tyler Stephen Graham, Samantha Kate Jorden and Matthew Sears Jorden; six sisters, Mary Cooper, Ruth Brooks, Jo Rita Zgombic, Margaret Ramsey, Lorene Rodrigs and Dorothy Duffy; and numerous nieces and nephews.

The family suggests memorials be sent to St. Paul United Methodist Church. Any flower arrangements may be in care of the funeral home.