Jimmie Dennison Kerr Sr., 79, of Morgan, Texas died Monday,
August 28, 2017 due to a heart attack.
Services will be 2:00 pm Monday, September 4, 2017 at
Bellmead Funeral Home Chapel. Burial with military honors will be at Old
Woodbury Cemetery in Hill County, Texas.
Jimmie Kerr was born in Tampa, Florida on December 8, 1937
to Charles S. A. and Olive Marie (Fields) Kerr. He grew up in Tampa and joined
the Army in 1957. After serving 2 years, which included a year in Germany as a
medic, he was discharged honorably in 1959. He moved to Waco where his mother
and sister then resided and shortly thereafter met and married Barbara Gray.
This was a bit of a challenge for Jim, as he had grown up with one sister and
married into a family of six brothers and one girl. As a young couple they
moved to Dallas in 1960. In 1962, Jim went to work for Ryder Truck Rental and
spent the next 30 years as a mechanic. During this time they had three
wonderful children. Jim was a quite reserved, soft spoken devoted husband and
father. He met all the challenges in his life head on without flinching. He
went to work for Walmart after retiring from Ryder in 1993, and worked for the
company for 14 years. Thinking he would try the "easy life", he soon discovered
it wasn't for him. In 2007 he got a job with Brookshires in Hillsboro and
enjoyed working in the produce department. After a car accident in 2013, it
became necessary for Jim to finally stop "punching the clock."
He is survived by his wife, Barbara Kerr; his daughters,
Tamera Sterling and husband, Billy and Carolyn Wiley and husband, Joe; his son,
Jimmie Kerr Jr., and wife, Annie; his sister, Joan Kerr; nine grandchildren,
Crystal Ward, Amanda Huninghake, Billy Sterling Jr., Ashley Bryant-Jackson,
Jerry Derington Jr., Joseph Derington, Aaron Derington, Keith Wiley and Jessica
Kerr; 19 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
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