JEAN GREGORY
Jean Carol Gregory of Irving, Texas, formerly of Ada, passed away in Baylor Hospital at 9:25 p.m. Monday, June 4, 2012 from complications of an infection following extensive back surgery the previous week.
Services will be 2:00 p.m. Thursday at the Southwest Church of Christ. Burial will follow at East Hill Cemetery in Roff.
Bearers will be Shelby Morgan, Howard Martin, Jimmy Davis, Ron Davidson, Kent Pharr and Randon Gregory. Honorary bearers will be Jess Green and Ken Kennedy.
Jean and her husband Bill attended Southwest Church of Christ until Bill's illness moved him to Irving, Texas for nursing home care in a VA approved facility. From then until she passed, Jean lived with her daughter in Irving and attended McArthur Church of Christ in Irving.
Jean was preceded in death by her mother, Treasure Victoria Phares Logan, her father, George Argustus (Gus) Logan, a sister Sybil, her brother, Arliss Logan and her grandson, Robert Douglas Gregory. She is survived by her son, Steven Gregory, daughter-in-law, Melissa Gregory, her daughter, Carolyn Gregory Carter, grandson, Ryan Logan Carter, grandson, Tanner Ross Gregory and Darren Lee Gregory and his wife Tina Gregory, great grandson, Randon Gregory, great grandson, Rainer Gregory, great great grandson, Carver Gregory and great great granddaughter, Dagon Gregory. She also has nieces, Arlene Logan Henderson and Evelyn Logan Carter and nephew, John Logan.
Jean was born in Ada, Oklahoma December 31, 1921. She skipped a year in grade school and graduated from Vanoss High at the age of 17. She graduated from East Central Teachers College with a major in Elementary Education and a minor in Spanish finishing in 3 years.
After teaching a year at Wilson elementary west of Ada, she moved to Wichita, Kansas to work for Cessna and live with her brother Arliss. In 1941, Jean followed her parents to Oakland, California to work in the ship years where she met Bill Gregory also from Ada. Jean and Bill were married in Oakland in 1943. After the war, they moved back to Ada where she restarted her teaching career in Latta. She received her Master's Degree from East Central in 1955.
She taught 4th grade for 15 years until one afternoon Mac Stegall, school superintendent walked into her class room and told her she would be teaching Spanish the next year. The government had just mandated all high schools in the country to offer a foreign language and Jean was the only qualified teacher.
Jean had not uttered a word of Spanish in over 18 years. She worked all that summer traveling to OU studying Spanish to learn enough to teach Spanish 1. She returned to OU the following summer to learn enough to teach Spanish II.
When Jean retired in 1983 to take care of her mother she was Junior High Principal. She taught high school Spanish I and 2, and Junior High Math and Science. Her former students still remember to ask about her whenever they see a member of the family. She influenced many lives in a positive way and she will be sorely missed by many.
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