Jesse Jenkins

Jesse Jenkins, son of Lucille Hopkins and Leroy Battle was born April 6, 1938 in Rocky Mount, NC. He was educated in the North Carolina School System. He was united in marriage to Faye Turner on November 10, 1962. He retired from the Washington Hospital Center after 46 years of service.

He departed this life on January 8, 2020 at Somerford Place in Annapolis. He leaves to cherish his memory a daughter, Karen Y. Jenkins, two sons Darrel A. Turner (Betty), and Derrick A Jenkins, Sr. (Jeanette); two grandchildren Derrick A. Jenkins, II (Briana) and Jasmine Jenkins (Tyrone); also four great-grandchildren, Jasmir, Hannah, Christopher and Tya, sister Mary MacSwain of San Diego, CA, four sisters-in-law Blanche “Ruth” Lockhart, Louise T. Johnson, Roberta T. Duckett and Lugenia Black and a host of other relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his wife, Faye T. Jenkins and sister, Bessie Dean.