Mary Jane Dubois

Funeral service for Mary Jane Dubois, 84, of Bellmeade (formerly from the Hawkins area) will be 2:00 p.m., Friday, September 26, 2014, at Croley Funeral Home Chapel in Hawkins with Bro. Melvin Thornhill and Bro. Stephen Dubois officiating. Interment will be in Chilton Cemetery in Big Sandy. Mrs. Dubois passed away Thursday, September 18, 2014 in Waco. Mrs. Dubois was born April 12, 1930 as Mary Jane Allen in Fayetteville, Arkansas to Melven and Clistia Blevins Allen. Her family were migrant workers, and Mary worked alongside her family until 1955, when she went to work at Whopper Stopper, in Sherman, Texas making fishing lures until 1979, when she met and married Clarence Earl. He passed away in 1989, and Mary remained single until she met Clarence Dubois, and they married on November 20, 2004 in Pine Mill, Texas in a little Pentecostal church. They were married there by Mary"s former Pastor, Melvin Thornhill. Clarence and Mary Dubois traveled all over the country and visited 49 states. The trip she talked about and enjoyed the most was the trip to Alaska, where they traveled the Alaskan Highway, viewed the scenery while going through Canada, and going to the Arctic Ocean, putting her feet in the waters there. Mary was always ready to make another trip, to see something new and exciting she had never seen before. She enjoyed her life, loved the Lord Jesus Christ with all her heart, and loved her husband and her family. Mary was preceded in death by her father Melvin Allen, her mother, Clistia Blevins Allen and her sister, Alice Allen Holly of Big Sandy, Texas. Left to cherish her memory are her husband, Clarence J. Dubois; a brother, Melven and his wife, Ivirne of East Texas; numerous nieces and nephews and great-nieces and great-nephews; six children, Janet Rowell and her husband, David of Elm Mott, Texas, Carolyn Williams, of West, Texas, Clarence J. Dubois, Jr. and wife Sandra of Kilgore, Texas, Elaine Dubois of Mexia, Texas, Ray Dubois and wife Lucresha of Greenville; 20 step-grandchildren, 18 step-great-grandchildren and 11 nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Caleb Dubois, Christopher Dubois, Colton Dubois, Eric Dubois, Jonathon Rowell and Eugene Garland. Honorary Pallbearers will be Ray Dubois, Clarence Dubois and Earl Rowell. A gathering of family and friends will be from 12:00 noon until service time, Sunday, September 26, 2014 at Croley Funeral Home in Hawkins.