Dateline: May 8, 2003
Drennan
Jessie
Elizabeth Drennan, age 91, of Vernon, Texas, died Tuesday, April 8, 2003,
at a Frederick, Oklahoma, nursing home.
Graveside
services were held on April 12 at 11 a.m. in Eastview Cemetery with Rev.
Irl Holt officiating. Interment
was under the direction of Sullivan Funeral Home of Vernon.
Ms.
Drennan was born May 12, 1911, in Vernon a daughter of the late Matthew
and Elizabeth Martin Swinburn. She
married W.T. Drennan on June 16, 1935, in Clarendon.
He preceded her in death in 1978.
She attended Clarendon College and McMurry College and started a
teaching career in Ashtola and Anson.
She returned to Vernon in 1957 to teach one year at Lockett High School;
then she was a teacher at Shive Elementary School and Vernon Intermediate
School. She retired in 1976.
She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Vernon.
She
was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and one daughter, Christy
Drennan in 1992.