Jeannie Marrable
Jeannie Marie Marrable was born at El Dorado, in Union County, Arkansas, on 15 January 1944. Her parents were James Ivan Marrable and Alta Marie Tucker, who went by Marie. Both had grown up in Union County, and both were about twenty-two when she was born. A brother, Jimmy, followed in about 1947.
In April 1950 the census taker found the family in El Dorado. Her father was 28 and worked forty hours a week as a gas blender at an oil refinery, in a town that had been built on the oil boom of the 1920s. Her mother, also 28, kept house. The six-year-old was written down as "Alta J.", her mother's first name with her own initial after it, and Jimmy R. was 3. On the next line of the sheet was Jimmie Perdue, a widow of 83, who was almost certainly her great-aunt Jimmie Marrable Perdue, born in 1866.
She married Hubert Owens, another El Dorado native, and their son Milton was born at El Dorado in 1963. Her obituary names two sons, M. Todd Owens and Mark Owens. The Owens name stayed with her for the rest of her life, and her grave marker reads "Jeannie M. Owens Parnell".
Later she married William S. Parnell, known as Bill, and made her life in Lincoln Parish, in north Louisiana, near Ruston. Her mother came to live in Ruston too. When Marie Marrable died there in February 2008, her obituary named "her daughter, Jeannie Parnell and her husband, Bill; son Jimmy Marrable and his wife, Barbara, all of Ruston", and among the grandchildren Todd Owens and Mark Owens.
Jeannie belonged to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a society open only to women descended from men who served the Confederacy. She was also a member of the Scottish Society of NorthEast Louisiana and danced with the River City Promenaders, a square dance club.
She died on 21 April 2019 at the North Louisiana Medical Center in Ruston, aged 75. Her family held "a Celebration of Jeannie's Life" on Saturday 11 May 2019 at the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Choudrant, with Pastors Kenneth Swanner and Brad Jones officiating. The graveside service followed at two o'clock at the Alabama Presbyterian Cemetery in Choudrant. Her obituary opened with the words "Our beloved Mother", and asked for memorials to the National Kidney Foundation or the American Heart Association.
She left her husband, William S. Parnell; her two sons, M. Todd Owens of Ruston and Mark Owens of Choudrant; a stepson, Andy Parnell of West Monroe; a stepdaughter, Jada Parnell of Charlotte, North Carolina; her brother, Jimmy R. Marrable of West Monroe; grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and "Very Special Lifelong Friend, Jim Cates of Ruston". Her grave is marked by a bronze cross with a rose worked down its stem.
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Cite: Heirology, "Jeannie Marrable (1944-2019)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/jeannie-marrable-1944-2019-3fe2c3.