Jo Olive Saunders Hancock

March 3, 1919 - May 6, 1998

Jo Olive Saunders Hancock, daughter of Joseph Edward Saunders and Eura Traylor.

Jo Olive Hancock
WINTERS -- Jo Olive Hancock, 79, died Wednesday in a Ballinger hospital.

Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Bluff Creek Cemetery with the Rev. Glenn Shoemake officiating, directed by Winters Funeral Home.

Mrs. Hancock was born in Bradshaw and lived in Runnels County most of her life. She graduated from Bradshaw High School, and McMurry and Hardin-Simmons universities. She taught school in Winters until retiring in 1984. She was a member of Chapter 80, Order of the Eastern Star; and First Baptist Church and was the widow of Carl Gene Hancock, whom she married in 1958 in Seguin.

Survivors include one son, Skip O'Dell Sheppard of Winters; two brothers, Homer Oran Saunders of Abilene and Richard Earl Saunders of San Antonio; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Memorials may be sent to North Runnels Hospital, c/o Winters Funeral Home, P.O. Box 395, Winters 79567.