Billie Frances Jowell Jeanes
Oct. 23, 1928 ~ June 23, 2016
Billie Frances Jowell Jeanes passed away Wednesday, June 23, 2016, at the age of 87.
Billie was born to parents Oma Frances Glover Jowell and William Earl Jowell in Mexia, Texas, on Oct. 23, 1928.
She was blessed with two loving sisters, Patsy Ruth and Johnnie Sue.
Her father worked for Magnolia Oil Company and was transferred to Freer, Texas, where Billie attended school until World War II broke out.
She and her family then moved to Houston, Texas.
Billie grew up in Houston and graduated from Sam Houston High School.
She was a woman of extra ordinary musical talent.
Billie was majorette with the Sam Houston High School Band.
She could twirl three batons at one time.
In her senior year she was First Lieutenant in the band.
She was elected Sam Houston’s most beautiful girl. She was class editor of the Cosmos, the high school’s newspaper.
