Jewel Fanny Smith

Notes:

Jewel married second Christopher Columbus Woods. He died around 1954. She married third Bill Lever.

The Sabine County Reporter
November 8, 1995, Page 13

Jewel Woods Lever

Jewel Wood Lever, 88, of Dallas died Monday Oct. 30, 1996, at her daughter's residence.

She was a native of Hemphill, a daugher of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith, and had formerly lived in Beaumont several years where she was a retired nurse with Baptist Hospital. She was a member of the Wildwood Church in Dallas and president of the Rebecca Club in Beaumont.

Survivors: daughter, Vickie Creegh and husband Eddie of Dallas; three sisters, Ariel (sic) Hill of Ft. Worth; Joelene Smith of Sulphur, Lousiana, and Laverne Ener of Hemphill; four granchildren, and one great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by a son, Edgar H. Chance.

Funeral services were held at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, at Westwood Chapel in Dallas with Rev. Kenneth Carroll officiating. Interment was at Garden of Memories of Restland Memorial Park in Dallas.

Pallbearers were nephews.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, June 2009)

Jewel married Leo Edgar Chance before 1928. Leo (son of Daniel Allen Chance and Nancy Curry) was born on 18 Jul 1904 in Shelby County, Texas; died on 6 Jan 1935 in Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jewel married Christopher Columbus Woods before 1950. Christopher was born on 31 Aug 1891 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 29 Jan 1967 in Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The 1930 census shows him as Harvel, though his birth index listing instead showed his middle name as Howell.