Wanda Jernigan

Services for Wanda Lou Jernigan, 74, of Godley, will be conducted at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, March 12, 2010 in the First Baptist Church of Godley. The Reverend Wayne McCoy will officiate. Burial will be in Godley Cemetery. Visitation will be from Friday from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Wanda Lou Jernigan passed through this life to be with the Lord on March 10, 2011.
Wanda has been a devoted and loving wife, mother, grandmother and business owner in the Godley community for forty years.
On the 20th of September, 1936, Wanda Lou Pittman was born at home in Fort Worth, Texas to Eva Lee ( a homemaker) and Loyd Pittman ( a mechanic). Wanda was baptized at the Sam Rosen Heights Baptist Church in Fort Worth, where she lived until she was married. She loved school and attended Sam Rosen Elementary and Technical High School, where she excelled in Math and English. She also loved music and played the bass violin and the flute.
Wanda at age 22 met her future husband, Don Jernigan, 29, at the drug store where she worked in Fort Worth, near TCU, where he was a student. After a couple of years, he proposed. Their wedding shower was held at the home of family friends, Lela and Dorman Sinclair in Godley. Shortly thereafter, they were married by Reverend Hal Potts, on August 16, 1958, at the Godley Baptist Church. They then moved to Houston, Cleburne, Chicago and then back to Godley in 1972, where they have lived and worked for the past forty years. They were blessed with two children, Janis Marie Jernigan and Robert (Roni) Lyndon Jernigan.
Wanda was an outgoing, strong woman and leader. She loved people, never met a stranger and helped many through tough and trying times with her love, loyalty and kindness.
Wanda was an avid reader, excellent seamstress, cook and partner. She had an especially tender heart for babies of all kinds and took in and cared for many in need throughout her life. She enjoyed playing on softball leagues, bowling leagues and volunteered many years as a Girl Scout leader. She loved her family, friends and customers. She loved her community of Godley, Texas. She will be deeply missed by all that knew her.
She is preceded in death by her mother, Eva Lee Pittman; father, Loyd B. Pittman; sister, Francis Celivic, sister, Billie Berry and brother-in-law, P.W. Lantz;
She is survived by her loving husband, Don Jernigan, Jr.; daughter, Janis Marie Jernigan; son, Roni and Diane Jernigan; three brothers, John and Connie Pittman, Lloyd B and Emma Pittman, Jr. and Douglas and Pat Pittman; brother-in-law, Gene and Margaret Jernigan; sisters-in-law, Edna Buckner and Martha and Paul Culver; nieces, Terri Steward, Carol Cappers and Cara Ellison; nephews, Eddie Maxwell, Mark Buckner and Glen Jernigan; and six grandchildren, Katie, Travis, Ford, Kelsey, Sydney and Chole.

Visitation

Crosier-Pearson Cleburne
512 North Ridgeway Dr.
Cleburne, TX 76033
Friday, March 11, 2011
6-8 p.m.
Map to Visitation Location

Service

First Baptist Church
Godley, Texas
101 E. Allen
Godley, TX 76044
Saturday, March 12, 2011
1:00 p.m.
Map to Service Location

Interment

Godley Cemetery