Jessie Sanders Orr (Tulia)

Tulia, Texas—Jessie Sanders Orr, 91, passed away on Saturday, February 11, 2017. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 10:00 am in the Kornerstone Funeral Directors Chapel with Rev. Rusty Gray officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery under the care of Kornerstone Funeral Directors of Tulia. A visitation will be held on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm at Kornerstone Funeral Directors. Jessie was born on January 29, 1926 in Whitesboro, TX to W.B. and Amber Brown Sanders. She attended schools in Whitesboro and in Wellington Texas. She moved from Wellington to Tulia in 1952 and worked at Swisher Memorial Hospital from 1953 to 1960. She married Omar “Shorty” Orr on December 5, 1960 in Silverton. She owned and operated Orr’s Motel Complex and moved to Claude in 1973. She later attended Clarendon College and graduated in 1974 as a license vocational nurse. She worked for the Palo Duro Nursing Home for many years and retired in 1991. She was a member of the Methodist faith. Her hobbies were gardening, sewing, crocheting and quilting and loved her family dearly. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one son: Gary Shaw; four brothers: William Clinton Sanders, Allen Troy Sanders, John Lloyd Sanders and Eddie Ray Sanders; four sisters: Muriel Fincher, Billie Fay Barfield, Pauline Hoyler and Jean Hendrick; one granddaughter and one great grandson. She is survived by her two daughters: Shirley Carroll and husband Don of Tulia and Cathy Stevens and husband Jim of Leoma, TN; one son: Bobby Sanders and wife Carla of Memphis, two brothers: Eldon Sanders of Levelland and James Sanders of Tulia; seven grandchildren, twenty-three great grandchildren and eleven great, great grandchildren. Online condolences may be made at www.kornerstonefunerals.com.