JONNIE GILCREASE COURTNEY
 

Funeral for Jonnie Gilcrease Courtney, 79, was at 2 p.m. Thursday at Cason Monk- Metcalf Sunset Chapel with the Rev. Monsignor James E. Young of Sacred Heart Catholic Church officiating. Burial was at Hester Cemetery in Cherokee County.

Mrs. Courtney died July 1. She was born January 21, 1928 in Douglass, Texas to the late Tom and Mattie Hester. She married Richard G. Courtney May 20, 1990, and he survives her. She was a homemaker and a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church.

She is preceded in death by her parents; a sister-in-law, Laurie Gilcrease and her first husband, Roy H. Gilcrease.

Along with her husband, Mrs. Courtney is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Donna and Jongy Lipschutz of Nacogdoches; two sons and a daughter-in-law, Tom and Rita Gilcrease and David Gilcrease, all of San Augustine; two sisters and brothers-inlaw, Tommie Jean and Donald Lee Anderson and Jo Bobbie and Kenneth Corn, all of Alto; a brother, Marvin Hester of Elgin; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Arrangements were under the direction of Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Directors

Information from The Cherokeean Herald

July 11, 2007