Jean (Nene) Espy Everett

Jean was always busy with her children and all their activities as they were growing up, whether it be working on family ranches, football, basketball, Stock Shows, and any other activity they participated in. In the late 1980s, during the Big Bend Livestock Show, she ran into her old friend Tommy Everett and their 30 plus year friendship and love story began. After they married in August 1989, they began their life together. They blended two families with Jean’s three children and Tommy’s children Cody Bob Everett and wife Shana of Tarzan, TX and Connie Voss and her husband Skipper of Waco, TX. In the mid 1990s the first grandchild arrived, Locke Ann McIvor of Fort Davis, TX, and then came Hadley McIvor of Dallas, TX, Mae McIvor of Portland, Oregon, Maverick McIvor of Abilene, TX, Casey Voss of Waco, TX, Jessi of Tarzan, TX and just recently the first great grandchild Rhodes Reed of Dallas, TX. Jean and Tommy loved all their grandchildren and tried to attend every activity they could.

Jean lived a full life, she touched and blessed many with her teaching, coaching, and jewelry fairs. She began her coaching career in Fort Stockton, then on to Marble Falls, Llano, Northern California, Presidio, Del Rio, and then “retired” in Fort Stockton in 2001 and was also inducted into the Tennis Coach Hall of Fame in New Braunfels, Texas. She then began her jewelry business and traveling to arts and craft shows across the Southwest. Her love of tennis and coaching called her back and she began coaching tennis at the Fort Davis Independent School District and was actively coaching at 83 years old, while still running her jewelry booth. Jean was always dedicated to living life to its fullest, she loved making jewelry, cooking, canning rodeos, stock shows, coaching, tennis, fishing, and playing the slot machines. She was well known to have 3 slot machines going at once and when fishing, 3 poles going at once. In youth, she loved rodeos, sports, and showing the Espy’s Rambouillet sheep. She later enjoyed showing sheep and steers with her kids and grandkids and placed at many of the major shows. She loved to cook especially when she was cooking for others, birthdays were very special, and she loved making people their favorite desserts. There was always homemade fudge, divinity, and caramel at every Christmas and Bloys Campmeeting. Spring and summer were spent canning and preserving everything she could find from every fruit tree in the area. You may have found her in your backyard picking fruit, in the middle of a local ranch harvesting apples off a tree or plucking a few of the Davis Mountain wild cherries off of the side of the road. She passed on her love and her skills of all these things to her kids, grandchildren as well as many others. Anyone who met her never forgot her. We, her family, can’t say how many times we have randomly met someone that she has touched. In everything she did she loved her family, her friends, her community, and she had a tremendous Faith in God. She put her heart and soul into everything she did, 120%, she will be missed by many.

In celebration of Jean Espy Everett’s (Nene) life there will be a memorial service at the Fort Davis High School Tennis Courts at 10am on Tuesday November 1st. The graveside will follow at Hillcrest Cemetery. Lunch with be served at Fort Davis Baptist Church for those who would like to visit with the family. While flowers are appreciated, memorials can be made in her honor to the Fort Davis FFA, Jeff Davis County 4-H Club or the FDISD Tennis program.

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