Bernice Nell Teer Jenkins

She married Bobby Jo Jenkins on December 1, 1963. She had a career in Cosmetology, and she served as a military wife and was a beauty pageant director. She was an active volunteer with the American Red Cross and had a passion for her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. She loved HATS, gardening, animals, puzzles and bingo.

Nell is preceded in death by many brothers and sisters, her husband Bobbie Jo Jenkins, and her granddaughter Kaelyn Faith Lowry.

Nell is survived by her children, Troy Carl Joseph, Jr. and wife Robin K Joseph, Deborah Joseph Gaston, Michael Ray Joseph and wife Carolyn Joseph, Sherry Jenkins McHale and husband William Robert McHale; her grandchildren, Shawn Troy Joseph with wife Amy Jo Joseph, Jacob Randall Gaston, Amber Joseph Cardwell with husband Joshua Cardwell, Jimmy Robert Gaston, Brett Jason Joseph with wife Anna De Reese Joseph, John Russell Gaston with wife Taylor Dornes Gaston, William Teer McHale, Robert Carter McHale; great-grandchildren, Joel Riley Gaston, Seth Tyler Joseph, Jade Renee Gaston, Shane Thomas Joseph, Kyndle Alexis, Aiden Michael Joseph and Jace Ryan Gaston.

Funeral services will be conducted at 10:00am in the morning on Wednesday, the 20th of January 2016, in the Colonial Chapel of Cook-Walden Funeral Home, 6100 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, Texas. Interment will follow in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas at 2:30pm.

A party will be held in Nell's honor at The Hanging Tree Saloon in Bracken, Texas. All are welcome. BYOH (Hat.)