Gage, Jean Marie 


GILMER -- Services for Jean Marie Gage, 78, of East Mountain, will be 
10 a.m. Wednesday, August 23, 2006, at Croley Funeral Home Chapel in 
Gilmer, with Dub Mowery officiating. Burial will follow in Hoover 
Cemetery in Upshur County. Born November 2, 1927, to Joe W. and Thursa 
Venn Johnson, in Abilene, Texas, she died Saturday, August 19, 2006, 
in Longview. She lived in Upshur County most of her life, attended Ming 
Chapel School, graduated from Union Grove High School in 1945, and 
attended one year at East Texas Teacher's College in Commerce. Since 
childhood, she was a member of Pritchett Church of Christ. A homemaker, 
she was a loving, devoted mother and wife, who for 25 years has provided 
tender care for her husband during his illness. She is survived by her 
husband, Delward C. Gage of East Mountain; three sons and 
daughters-in-law, Andy Gage of Houston, Darrell and Kathy Gage of Shady 
Grove, and Phillip and Dottie Gage of Gilmer; two daughters and 
son-in-law, Judy M. James, and Laura and Chuck Richmond, all of Gilmer; 
eight grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and one brother, Kenneth 
Johnson of Gilmer. She was preceded in death by her parents; two 
brothers, Jeff Johnson and T.J. Johnson; and sister, Jo Ann Watts. 
Pallbearers will be R.B. Watts, Bobby Lee Gage, Mike Sperier, Bruce 
Slaven, Terry Johnson and Jerry McKnight. No formal visitation is 
scheduled.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 8/22/2006.