Oma Willadeane Jennings

LASHMEET – Our mother, Oma Willadeane (Deanie) Walker Jennings, of Lashmeet, sadly passed away on Wednesday, February 14, 2024 at Bowers Hospice House, in Beckley, at age 87. She was born to the late Claude and Oma Walker on January 27, 1937 at Matoaka. She married her soulmate, the late Frankie Jennings, on his birthday, August 8, 1953. They were married for 57 years. Our beloved mother is back in His arms where she longed to be. She was a member of Cooks Chapel Baptist Church and a loving and caring mother and grandmother, who was always there for us and anyone else who needed a friend or mother. Her greatest enjoyment was gardening and canning everything she got her hands on and she could not bear anything to go to waste. She loved celebrating and decorating for the holidays. Her famous salt brine pickles were always the hit of the family reunion. She always remembered the ones who had gone before by fixing beautiful flower arrangements to place on their graves every year. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Frankie Jennings; siblings, Bracy Hurst, Bufford Hurst, Blake Hurst, Bentley Young Slone Beasley, Bernice Hurst, Auntrenette Jennings and Glenda Mills Bradley; and son-in-law, Mike Clisso. Survivors include her loving family, Frankie Dean and Teresa Jennings, Barry and Tammy Jennings, Denton and Shannon Jennings and Bentley Glennette Clisso; grandchildren, Derek and Jennifer Jennings, Brenton Jennings, Kaylyn Jennings and Damian, Zachary Jennings and Amber, Tess and Dykota Hale, McKenzie and Grayson Jennings, Laken and Craig Balliet, Caitlin Hines, Lauren and Roberto Delgado, Shawn Clisso and Monika Clisso; great grandchildren, Cara, Alex, Owen, Ethan, Cameron, Dennis, Brayden, Coen, Gavin, Violet and one precious one on the way; and one brother, Ronald Walker. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, February 18, 2024 at the Bailey-Kirk Funeral Home in Princeton with Pastor Larry Cecil officiating. Interment will follow at Red Oak Family Cemetery on Lookout Road in Lashmeet. Grandsons and family will serve as pallbearers. Those who wish to remember Oma in a special way may make memorial contributions to Bowers Hospice House. The family will receive friends Sunday, February 18, 2024 from 1:00 p.m. until service hour at the Bailey-Kirk Funeral Home in Princeton. Online condolences may be shared with the family at www.bailey-kirk.com.

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Oma Willadeane Jennings

January 27, 1937 - February 14, 2024