Jean Francis Jones LeVert, 86, died peacefully Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009 at her home, attended by her daughter and sons.
Cancer ended her life.
Born in 1922, she grew up on her grandfather’s farm in Orange Beach, attended Foley High School, graduated from Auburn University, and completed a post-graduate curriculum in social work at Tulane University.
She was employed by Mobile’s Department of Social Work prior to her marriage to Darwin Eiland LeVert of Marion. In Marion, she devoted herself to her family, the Methodist Church, and to Marion Institute, and Judson College, where she was secretary to these schools’ deans.
Shortly after her husband’s death in 1991, she retired to Fairhope, where she was a member of Fairhope Methodist Church. She embodied the virtues of Christian humility and gentlest love.
Survivors include three children, Edward, Winn and Eugene; four grandchildren, eight nieces and nephews.
She will lie beside her husband in the antebellum cemetery at Saint Wilfrid’s Episcopal Church in Marion. A graveside memorial service will be held there at 2 p.m. Aug 15.
The family requests memorial donations be made to the scholarship fund of Judson College.
Arrangements are by Wolfe-Bayview Funeral Homes & Crematory Inc., Fairhope.
