Mrs. JoNell LaGrone

JoNell LaGrone, remembered as a devoted wife and matriarch of 39 descendants and their spouses, died at her daughter’s home in Deadwood on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016, after a brief illness. Mrs. LaGrone was 83. The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 19, at Hawthorn Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 20, in the Hawthorn Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Barry Rhodes will officiate and her grandson Rodger Glen McLane will read the obituary. Burial will follow in Deadwood Cemetery. Mrs. LaGrone was a lifelong resident of Panola County. She was born in the Fair Play Community of Panola County to Virgil Haywood Emmons and Myrtle Eleanor Scarborough on March 20, 1933. Her siblings were Nelva Jean, Billy, Juanita Dean, Mary, and Johnny Emmons. Mrs. LaGrone attended Carthage and Beckville schools, and graduated from Beckville High School in May 1952. Mrs. LaGrone met her future husband at a tent revival in Carthage, and a month later, on May 28, 1952, a few days after her high school graduation, she married Jimmy Glen LaGrone in the living room of Justice of the Peace Marvin Gulley, her groom’s uncle. After her marriage, Mrs. LaGrone moved to Deadwood and joined the Deadwood United Pentecostal Church, which she was a member of until her death. In recent years she also attended the Logansport United Pentecostal Church. Mrs. LaGrone was a homemaker and raised four children in a loving and Christian home. Nothing surpassed Mrs. LaGrone’s love for her family. Mrs. LaGrone is preceded sixteen years in death by her husband, Jimmy LaGrone. Mrs. LaGrone is also preceded in death by her great-grandson, Will Harris; her parents; her brothers; and her sister, Mary Mixon. Mrs. LaGrone is survived by her daughters and their husbands, Jimmie Nell and Jimmy Ray Oliver, Bobbie Ann and Wayne Harrison, and Brenda Joyce and Rodger D. McLane; her son and his wife, Glen Dale and Carolyn “CJ” LaGrone, all of Deadwood. Mrs. LaGrone’s nine grandchildren and their spouses are: Michale and Liz Harrison, of Deadwood; Brandi McLane and Shane Kelley, of Carthage; Shaun Oliver, Renee LaGrone and Johnny Metcalf, Jason Glen and Marilyn Harrison, Lacie McLane Fensom, Mitchell and Sarah Harrison, Kerrie LaGrone and Shaun Harris, all of Deadwood; and Rodger Glen McLane, of Jackson, Miss. Her twenty-eight great-grandchildren are Krystina Oliver, Emily Oliver, Bradley Oliver, Anna Harrison, Hannah Harrison, Jannah Harrison, Lannah Harrison, Allen Michale Harrison, Mark Glen LaGrone Harrison, Bobbie Elaina Harrison, Callie Harrison, Allie Harrison, John David LaGrone Harrison, Keith Warren Harrison, Marissa Harrison, Alyssa Fensom, Brenton Fensom, Courtlyn Fensom, all of Deadwood; Ashley Metcalf and J.C. Whitaker, of Beckville; Hunter LaGrone, Jasey Metcalf, Madison Harris, Mason Harris, Levi Harris, all of Deadwood; Caleb Metcalf and Lani Metcalf, of Joaquin; and one great-great-grandson, Kreed Kendrick. Other survivors include her sisters, Juanita Dean LaGrone, of Deadwood, and Neva Jean Wallace, of Henderson; brother-in-law and his wife, Jeff and Juanita LaGrone, of Carthage; sister-in-law and her husband, Allie LaGrone and Larry Dickerson, of Lafayette, La.; sisters-in-law, Florene LaGrone, of Beckville, and Dois LaGrone, of McKinney, Texas. Many nieces, nephews, cousins, and other loved ones are left to mourn Mrs. LaGrone’s passing. Serving as pallbearers will be Mrs. LaGrone’s grandsons, Michale Harrison, Shaun Oliver, Jason Harrison, Mitchell Harrison, Rodger G. McLane, Mark Harrison and Hunter LaGrone. Serving as honorary pallbearers will be Jimmy Ray Oliver, Wayne Harrison, Rodger D. McLane, Shane Kelley, Johnny Metcalf, Shaun Harris, Roy LaGrone, David LaGrone, Randy LaGrone, Lynn Emmons, Billy Hill Emmons, Garth Dale LaGrone, Chuck Daniels, Jessie Wallace and Kent Hutchins.

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Mrs. JoNell LaGrone

March 20, 1933 - October 18, 2016