
Funeral services for Jessalyn Yvonne Butchee Barks, 81, of Lumberton will be 2:00 pm Sunday, December 20, 2009 at Farmer Funeral Home in Silsbee with interment following in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Beaumont. Visitation will begin at 5:00 pm Saturday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Barks died December 16, 2009 at Memorial Hermann Baptist Hospital in Beaumont.
A native of Humble, Jessalyn was a longtime resident of this area. She graduated from Chenier Business College and was a longtime member of Beta Sigma Phi Society. Mrs. Barks was instrumental in organizing the volunteer fire departments womens auxiliary, worked at Finger Furniture Company and retired from Malone and Hyde Food Dist.
Mrs. Barks was preceded in death by her husband Joseph Littleton Barks, Sr. and sons Joseph Littleton Barks, Jr. and William Aubrey (Bill) Barks.
She is survived by her daughter Nicki Lynne Barks of Lumberton; sister Helen Malone of Houston; brothers W. C. (Bill) Butchee of Beaumont and Ray D. Inman of Arlington; grandchildren Amanda Jacks, Brandy Southerland and husband Marcus, Randi Barks, Summer Funchess, Skye Haines and Joshua Reeter and great grandchildren Joseph Jacks, Alex Wagner, Rebekka Quast, Chloe Quast, Asher Quast and Jahn Southerland.