Bessie Lee Jenkins
March 25, 1911 ~ July 15, 1999
She was a native and lifelong resident of Buncombe County and was the daughter of the late Robert Edward Jenkins and Donnie Ingle Jenkins. She is the wife of Edward L. Jenkins of the home.
She was a retired seamstress with the Philps Company, and was a member of Woodmen of the World. She was a member of Skyland Baptist Church.
In addition to her husband of 68 years she is survived by a brother, Dan Jenkins of Asheville and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 2 pm Saturday in the Skyland Baptist Church with the Reverend D.K. Brevard and Reverend Greg Corn officiating. Interment will follow in New Salem Cemetery.
Her family will receive friends from 7 until 8:30 pm Friday at Groce Funeral Home at Lake Julian, and at other times will be at the home of James and Doris Fender on Edgewood Road.
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When I think of my Nanny, I remember all the good times I shared with her. I remember running up the hill to her house on a warm summer day, and sitting at the kitchen table awaiting my hot chicken egg noodles.
I remember her handing my sister and I a basket and asking us to go out into the garden and pick her some blackberries for her to make a black berry pie. I remeber how generouse she was, any time I needed anything,
she would see that I got it. I remember walking to the mailbox with her every morning and stopping on the way back to throw rocks from the road into the creek. I remember how her eyes would light up as she sat out
on her front porch with Pop, and watched us run up the hill to visit them. I remember all the love in everything Nanny did. When we got holes in our jeans she would loveingly patch them up for us. I remember
going into her sewing room and getting some patches, a needle, and some thread. I would sit there and sew all the patches together, just as she had taught me. Now when I think of how sad I am that I will no longer
get to run up the hill to visit her, I know that she is in a far better place now. A place where no pain can ever touch her. A place where she can look down on us all, and watch out for each and every one of us.
I know that she will always be with me now, in my heart we can never be seaperated. I also know that as long as we remember the things that she taught us, she will live on forever. As long as we pass on all the wisdom that
she blessed us with, she will never die, but live on with us forever.