Bennie Jean McMillan

Services for Bennie Jean McMillan, 81, of Tyler are scheduled for 2:30pm, Monday January 26, 2015 at Lloyd James Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Charles Dodson officiating. Burial will in Rose Hill Cemetery under the direction of Lloyd James Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 2-5pm on Sunday, January 25, 2014 at the funeral home.

Mrs. McMillan passed away on Wednesday, January 21, 2015 in Tyler.

She was born Bennie Jean Luckey on September 27, 1933 to Benjamin and Abigail Luckey of Troup. She was a graduate of Troup High School in 1950. Then she attended Tyler Junior College and Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches majoring in music and education. She completed her masters in Library Sciences at East Texas State University (now Texas A&M at Commerce).

She was a member of Alpha Delta Kappa, a lifetime member of PTA, and also a member of Texas Library Association and Teachers Retirement Association. She also was a charter member of Green Acres Baptist in Tyler and a charter member of The Woods Baptist Church in Tyler.

Bennie Jean started her teaching career in 1954 at Pine Tree. In 1955 she taught at Leverette's Chapel for two years. Then she moved to the Tyler Independent School System and taught on the campuses of Gary, Ramey, Bell, Rice, Orr and finishing at Andy Woods and retiring in 1996.

After retirement she volunteered at East Texas Medical Center for 16 years.

She is preceded in death by her husband of 54 years Dr. Ed McMillan.

She is survived by her two sons, John Benjamin McMillan of Tyler and Edgar Scott McMillan of San Antonio and granddaughter, Hanna Leigh McMillan.

The family would like to thank all her close friends who gave her much love and support these last few years.

Donations may be made to Smith County Alzheimer's Alliance, 211 Winchester, Tyler, 74701 or Scottish Rite Children's Hospital, P. O. Box 199300, Dallas, 75219.