10/18/2016
JoNell LaGrone, remembered as a devoted wife and matriarch of 39 descendants and their spouses, died at her daughter’s home in Deadwood on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, after a brief illness. Mrs. LaGrone was 83. The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 19, at Hawthorn Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, October 20, in the Hawthorn Funeral Home Chapel. Bro. Harold Gunstanson will officiate and her grandson Rodger Glen McLane will read the obituary. Burial will follow in Deadwood Cemetery.
Mrs. LaGrone was a lifelong resident of Panola County. She was born in the Fair Play Community of Panola County to Virgil Haywood Emmons and Myrtle Eleanor Scarborough on March 20, 1933. Her siblings were Nelva Jean, Billy, Juanita Dean, Mary, and Johnny Emmons. Ms. LaGrone attended Carthage and Beckville schools, and graduated from Beckville High School in May 1952. Mrs. LaGrone met her future husband at a tent revival in Carthage, and a month later, on May 28, 1952, a few days after her high school graduation, she married Jimmy Glen LaGrone in the living room of Justice of the Peace Marvin Gulley, her groom’s uncle.
After her marriage, Mrs. LaGrone moved to Deadwood and joined the Deadwood United Pentecostal Church, which she was a member of until her death. In recent years she also attended the Logansport United Pentecostal Church. Mrs. LaGrone was a homemaker and raised four children in a loving and Christian home. Nothing surpassed Mrs. LaGrone’s love for her family.
Mrs. LaGrone is preceded sixteen years in death by her husband, Jimmy LaGrone. Mrs. LaGrone is also preceded in death by her great-grandson, Will Harris; her parents; her brothers; and her sister, Mary Mixon.
Mrs. LaGrone is survived by her daughters and their husbands, Jimmie Nell and Jimmy Ray Oliver, Bobbie Ann and Wayne Harrison, and Brenda Joyce and Rodger D. McLane; her son and his wife, Glen Dale and Carolyn “CJ” LaGrone, all of Deadwood. Mrs. LaGrone’s nine grandchildren and their spouses are: Michale and Liz Harrison of Deadwood; Brandi McLane and Shane Kelley of Carthage; Shaun Oliver, Renee LaGrone and Johnny Metcalf, Jason Glen and Marilyn Harrison, Lacie McLane Fensom, Kerrie LaGrone and Shaun Harris, Mitchell and Sarah Harrison all of Deadwood; and Rodger Glen McLane of Jackson, MS. Her twenty-six great-grandchildren are Krystina Oliver, Emily Oliver, Bradley Oliver, Anna Harrison, Hannah Harrison, Jannah Harrison, Lannah Harrison, Allen Michale Harrison, Mark Glen LaGrone Harrison, Bobbie Elaina Harrison, Callie Harrison, Allie Harrison, John David LaGrone Harrison, Keith Warren Harrison, Marissa Harrison, Alyssa Fensom, Brenton Fensom, Courtlyn Fensom of Deadwood, Ashley Metcalf and J.C. Whitaker of Beckville; Hunter LaGrone, Jasey Metcalf, Madison Harris, Mason Harris, Levi Harris all of Deadwood; Caled and Lani Metcalf of Joaquin; one great, great grandson, Kreed Kendrick.
Other survivors include her sisters, Juanita Dean LaGrone of Deadwood, and Neva Jean Wallace of Henderson; brother-in-law and his wife, Jeff and Juanita LaGrone of Carthage; sister-in-law and her husband, Allie LaGrone and Larry Dickerson of Lafayette, La.; sisters-in-law, Florene LaGrone of Beckville, and Dois LaGrone of McKinney, Texas. Many nieces, nephews, cousins, and other loved ones are left to mourn Mrs. LaGrone’s passing.
Services as pallbearers will be Mrs. LaGrone’s grandsons, Michale Harrison, Shaun Oliver, Jason Harrison, Mitchell Harrison, Rodger G. McLane, Mark Harrison and Hunter LaGrone. Serving as honorary pallbearers will be Jimmy Ray Oliver, Wayne Harrison, Rodger D. McLane, Shane Kelley, Johnny Metcalf, Shaun Harris, Roy LaGrone, David LaGrone, Randy LaGrone, Lynn Emmons, Billy Hill Emmons, Garth Dale LaGrone, Chuck Daniels, Jessie Wallace and Kent Hutchins.
An online guestbook may be signed at www.hawthornfuneralhome.com.
