Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 24, 1993 TAG: 9311240235
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE:
DATELINE: LEXINGTON LENGTH: Short
OBIT JENKINS, GRADY JEFFERSON
JENKINS, Grady Jefferson, 77, of Lexington, Va., died Tuesday, November 23,
1993, at his residence. Mr. Jenkins was born in Muscogee Co., Ga., on
September 10, 1916, a son of the late John Lewis Jenkins and Sarah Augusta
Greer Jenkins. He was a member of the Manly Memorial Baptist Church,
Lexington, a member of the Mountain City Lodge #67 A.F. & A.M., the Khedive
Shrine Temple Scottish Rite Bodies, the Kerrs Creek Ruritan Club, and was
retired after 32 years of service from the Naval Ammunition Depot in
Portsmouth, Va. Mr. Jenkins was preceded in death by one son, Claude Thomas
Jenkins (Vietnam, 1969), a grandson, Steven William Jenkins; three brothers
and one sister. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Minnie Belle Cofield
Jenkins, Lexington; a son and daughter-in-law, William G. and Zora Jenkins,
Lexington; a daughter-in-law, Dorothy Bozeman, Fort St. Lucie, Fla.; a sister,
Sarah Wilson, Atlanta, Ga.; a brother, Roy R. Jenkins, Atlanta, Ga.; two
grandsons, Brian T. Jenkins, Lexington, Charles Grady Bozeman, Ft. Myers, Va.
Funeral services will be conducted Friday, November 26, 1993, at 11 a.m. at
the Harrison Funeral Chapel, with Dr. Thomas G. Harvey officiating. Burial
will follow in the Stonewall Jackson Cemetery, Lexington. Graveside rites will
be conducted by the Mountain City Lodge #67 A.F. & A.M. In lieu of flowers,
the family suggests memorial contributions be made to the Organ Fund of the
Manly Memorial Baptist Church. The family will receive friends Thursday night
from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Harrison Funeral Home, Lexington.
by CNB