Thweatt, Jerrianne Dean 
  	
GILMER -- Jerrianne Dean Thweatt, 70, of Canyon, died Wednesday, 
November 15, 2006. Memorial services will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, 
November 21, 2006, at Gilmer Church of Christ, with David Lough, 
minister of University Church of Christ in Canyon, officiating. 
Burial will follow in Sunset Memorial Park in Gilmer. Arrangements 
are by Croley Funeral Home of Gilmer and Cox-LaGrone Funeral Home, 
4180 Canyon Drive. Mrs. Thweatt was born July 12, 1936, in 
Simpsonville, to Jerry and Maggie Maloney Dean. She was raised in 
Simpsonville and was valedictorian of the Union Hill High School 
Class of 1953. She worked at Wyeth Laboratories in Dallas, where 
she met Harry Thweatt. They married November 7, 1959, in Gilmer. 
With their children, they lived in Dallas, Denver, and Medina, 
Ohio. They returned to Texas, living in Fairview, where Jerri 
worked at the Farm Bureau in McKinney and at Fry Wholesale Lumber 
Co. in Garland. After she retired, she lived in Oakwood and Canyon. 
While she worked outside the home, she was primarily a homemaker, 
creating a warm and loving environment for family and friends. 
Jerri was a member of University Church of Christ of Canyon, Texas, 
and Ladies Bible Class, Red Hat Club, and the Extension Education 
Club. She was preceded in death by her parents; an infant brother, 
Gerald Raymond Dean; and a sister, Ella Mae Dean Harris. Survivors 
include her husband, Harry of Canyon; two sons, Gary Thweatt of 
Plano, and Ronald and Romaine Thweatt of Sturtevant, Wis.; a 
daughter, Laura Hamilton of Amarillo; four grandchildren, Jillian 
and Caroline Hamilton, and Christopher and Carson Thweatt; three 
brothers, John Edward Dean and wife, Mary Jo, Everett Dean and 
wife, Jo, and Bill Dean and wife, Virginia, all of Gilmer; three 
sisters, Winnie Kennedy of Gladewater, Rose Thacker of Gilmer, and 
Margie Mangum of McKinney; numerous nieces and nephews; and 
additional friends also survive Jerrianne. The family suggests 
memorial donations be made to the Juvenile Diabetes Research 
Foundation or a favorite charity. Visitation was from 6-8 p.m. 
Monday evening, November 20, 2006, at Croley Funeral Home.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 11/21/2006.