Jewel Dowe Tilley

1906 - 1970  (64 years)

• Name	Jewel Dowe Tilley
  Born	14 Apr 1906	Catulla, La Salle, Texas, USA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Died	8 Jun 1970	Laredo, Webb, Texas, USA   [1, 2, 3]
  Buried	Laredo, Webb, Texas, USA   [2]
  	City Cemetery
  Person ID	I6840	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	22 Feb 2020

  
  

  Father	Valentine Harris Tilley,   b. 14 Feb 1866, Hondo, Medina, Texas, USA ,   d. 13 Nov 1921, Pearsall, Frio, Texas, USA  (Age 55 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Nancy Pairlee Yarbrough,   b. 28 Apr 1877, Tilden, McMullen, Texas, USA ,   d. 7 Feb 1968, Laredo, Webb, Texas, USA  (Age 90 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	1 Jun 1898	La Salle, Texas, USA   [2, 4]
  Family ID	F2381	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Pleas William Walker,   b. 12 Apr 1898
  Married	4 Jul 1924	Cotulla, La Salle, Texas, USA   [2]
  Children	1. Judy Walker  [natural]
  Last Modified	22 Feb 2020
  Family ID	F2379	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Married - 4 Jul 1924 - Cotulla, La Salle, Texas, USA Died - 8 Jun 1970 - Laredo, Webb, Texas, USA Buried - - Laredo, Webb, Texas, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  - Mrs. Walker, LJC Registrar, Dies At Age 64 Mrs. Jewel Tilley Walker, Laredo Junior College registrar and longtime teacher and administrator in area schools, died Monday morning at Mercy Hospital. Services are pending at Jakson's Funeral Home. Mrs. Walker, 64, was born in Cotulla. She held both bachelor and master's degrees from Texas A&I University. Her Career began in the days of the one-room schools which formerly were common in the area's ranch villages. She taught first in the little Zapata County town of Escobas, which no longer has a school. She also taught several years in Randado and Oilton. From 1944 to 1948 Mrs. Walker was superintendent of Zapata County schools... Laredo College Official Dies Laredo (Sp) - Mrs. Pleas Walker, 64, registrar at Laredo Junior College and former area school administrator died at 9 a. m. Monday in a local hospital after a short illness. Mrs. Walker was born in Cotulla and had lived here 22 years. She taught in Escobas, Randado and Oilton and served as superintendent of the Zapata Independent School District. She came to Laredo in 1948 and served as principal of Nye Elementary School and as a Webb County school supervisor before joining the college faculty in 1953. Mrs. Walker was an English instructor and was promoted to counselor and assistant regisrar in 1958. A graduate of Texas A&I College and the University of Texas, she was appointed college regisrar in 1968. She was active in state professional organizations and local civic and social women's groups. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the First Christian Church. Burial will be in the City Cemetery under the direction of Jackson Funeral Home. Survivors include her husband (Pleas William Walker); a daughter, Miss Judy Walker of Laredo, and three sisters, Mrs. Francis A. Sponseller of Alice, and Mrs. C. K. Horton and Mrs. Carmen Pierce, both of San Antonio. http://www.hal-pc.org/~berrys/html2/pafg51.htm>

  
  

• Sources

  [S276] Social Security Death Index. [S126] Ancestry World Family Tree. Submitter Renee Pierce Smelley [S283] Texas Death Records. Texas Department of Health. Texas Death Index, 1964-1998. [database on-line] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000-. Original electronic data from:Texas Department of Health. Texas Death Indexes, 1964-1998. Austin, TX. Texas Department of Health. State Vital Statistics Unit, 19xx- [S1051] 1930 Census of United States, Texas, McMullen, Justice Precint No. 1, population Schedule; Online Images, E. D. No. 156-1, sheet no. 5A, dwelling 92, family 96, A. B. Brown household, accessed 24 April 2017. Includes wife Parlee; step-sons L. C. Tilley, Holley N. Tilley, Leon Tilley, and U. L. Tilley; and step-daughters Adine Tilley, Virgie Tilley, and Carmen Tilley