Lorene (Jenkins) Tubbs

Lorene Jenkins Tubbs, age 97, resident of Toone and wife of the late Roland Fredrick "Fred" Tubbs, departed this life Friday evening, April 22, 2016 at the Pine Meadows Healthcare Center in Bolivar.

Services of Remembrance for Mrs. Tubbs were conducted at 2 P.M. Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at the Peebles West Funeral Chapel at Oakland with Bro. Fred Tubbs officiating. Interment followed in the Memory Hill Gardens Cemetery at Bartlett. Arrangements were provided by Peebles Fayette County Funeral Homes & Cremation Center - West Chapel at Oakland.

Mrs. Tubbs was born February 5, 1919 in New Albany, Mississippi. She was a longtime resident of Memphis before moving to Toone in 2001. In her working years, she was a seamstress for Getsin Cap Company and had been a member of Frayser, Rugby Hills, Broadmoor and Orchi Baptist churches. She loved the Lord, her Bible, her church, her pastors and her family. God blessed her, not only with many years, but with a servant’s heart as she always put others first. Preparing food, sewing and flowers were favorite pastimes.

Mrs. Tubbs is survived by three sons, James Hoyt Tubbs of Hernando, Mississippi, Bill Tubbs and his wife, Regina, of Toone, Tennessee, Fred C. Tubbs and his wife, Jo, of Nesbit, Mississippi; six grandchildren, fifteen great grandchildren and one great great granddaughter.

She was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 78 years, Roland Fred Tubbs; her parents, James William Jenkins and Addie Pearl Moody Jenkins; her sister, Pauline Tucker; and her brother, Curtis Jenkins.

The family requests that memorials be directed to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000, Department 142, Memphis, TN 38148.