Ellen Jo Jeanes, 90, passed away Wednesday, March 1, 2017 in Denton, Texas. Funeral services will be held at 1 P.M. Saturday, March 4, 2017 at the Seymour Memorial Funeral Home Chapel, with Dr. Tommy Culwell officiating. Interment will be in the Riverview Cemetery.

Jo was born January 5, 1927, in Memphis, Texas, to Henry F. Bunch and Alma Taylor Bunch. She attended schools in Chillicothe, Archer City, Bowie and Ft. Worth. She graduated from Paschal High School in Ft. Worth in January 1944, and attended TCU from 1944-1946. She married Reeda H. Jeanes on November 30, 1946 in Wichita Falls. The lived in Olney, Texas for 18 years, and moved to Seymour in 1965. She moved to Denton in October 1999.

She was a homemaker and a member of the First Baptist Church of Denton and the Rebekkah Sunday School Class. She was a resident of Good Samaritan Retirement Village in Denton for 14 years, and moved to Joyful Journey Assisted Living in January 2013.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Judy and Bill Whitley of Richardson, Texas; son and daughter-in-law, Jerry and Judy Jeanes of Denton, Texas; three grandchildren,
Amy Taylor of Richardson, Texas, Dr. Macy Whitley of Dallas, Texas, and Chad Roberts and wife, Heather of Kansas City,Missouri; four great-grandchildren, Whitley and Nolan Taylor of Richardson, Texas, and Grace Ann and Abigail Roberts of Kansas City, Missouri; two sisters, Mary Lou McDonald of Vernon, Texas, and Doris Green of Oregon; a brother, Henry Larry Bunch of Arizona; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; her stepmother; and two brothers,
Olin and Emmett Bunch.

A visitation will be held at 6 P.M. Friday evening at the funeral home.

Pallbearers will be Win Bunch, Travis Bunch, Bruce Thornhill, Clifton Talley, Mark McCord and Mark Warren.