James Edwin (Jimmy) Blakeslee
Memorial services for James Edwin (Jimmy) Blakeslee will be from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 20, at Sardis Baptist Church on 1512 in Jewett. Dr. Delmar White will officiate.
Jimmy entered his eternal life on Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, at Scott and White Hospital in College Station.
James Edwin Blakeslee (Jimmy) age 71, was born March 25, 1951, in Medina, Ohio, to Gregory Elihu Blakeslee and Nellie May Snyder Blakeslee. He and his father moved to Texas as a teen and he married his high school sweetheart, Wanda Jo Johnson in 1970. They were blessed with three sons, James Gregory Blakeslee and wife Melanie, Christopher Joe Blakeslee and wife Traci Lynn, and Scott Alan Blakeslee and wife Kari; and 10 grandchildren, Cody, Kevin, Jamie, Jessie, Tiler, Jacie, Emily, Makenzie, Neely and Jake. Jimmy was a welder by trade, but after heart problems he had to give it up. He also worked as a correctional officer at Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville and Limestone County Detention Center in Groesbeck.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to www.amedisys. com/about/foundation.
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Ricks-Bowers Funeral Home 814 Main Street Jewett, Texas 75846 (903) 626-5458
