Obituary of Jacqueline Jewell Tindell

Jacqueline Jewell was born to Bernetta Bennett-Jewell and James Clarence Jewell in a large white, clapboard Central -Hall Colonial, in an unincorporated area of Caldwell County, Kentucky. The young family resided in the neighboring Cobb County, Kentucky. Jacqueline was the first of 11 children born to Bernetta and James Jewell. Jacqueline was raised in a series of rented farms that her family worked for their own sustenance and income until her father found employment with the Tennessee Valley Authority, which through its new day program was making efforts to create parks, bridges and reservoirs beneficial ecologically to the country struggling through a depression. At age 16, Jacqueline, Jack as her family called her packed a bag hopped on the back of a milk truck and rode into Hopkinsville, Ky, which was the nearest town of any size. There Jacqueline worked in a few restaurants as a waitress and made a home for herself at Mrs. Rozells Boarding House. She met, dated and married Robert Henry Lee Bob another Kentucky native of military employment with the United States Army in December of 1946. The newlyweds moved almost immediately to Fayetteville, NC, home of Fort Bragg. Jackie and Bob Lee were blessed with a son, Gary Edwin Lee, born in Womack Army Hospital of Fort Bragg, NC on July 17, 1952. The couple later relocated to Oklahoma where Bob attended Officers Training and Flight School, upon graduation from both they returned to Fort Bragg and Fayetteville, NC Jackie, as she had come to be known, met Rush Ronald Tindell at the Counter of The High Hat restaurant in Fayetteville, NC in 1953. She remembers the other girls there were talking about the young handsome soldier with the Long Eye Lashes. The two were introduced by friends, dated and were married in Dillon, SC on December 15, 1955. Rush, Jackie and Gary moved to Clarksville, TN for year as Rush was transferred with the United States Army to Fort Campbell for a year and then moved on the California as Rush was training at a missile in the nearby desert. Jackie and Rush rented a patio home in the Grenada Hills neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley where they welcomed home their first child, a daughter Rhonda Kay Tindell, born July 10, 1957. Rush was transferred to the military base for Special Forces Training on the Island of Okinawa where the family lived from 1960-1964. The family returned to Fayetteville and built a home in the Cottonade Subdivision of Fayetteville NC, where they welcomed home the last child, James Forrest Tindell, born in Womack Army Hospital on April 8, 1966. The family resided in Fayetteville until December, 1988, when they decided to open and operate the The Tindell Inn, Bed and Breakfast of Seven Devils, NC This was a short lived venture for the family who after a year converted the commercial enterprise into a full time family residence and celebrated many great holidays in the log home and enjoying the North Carolina High Country. Jacqueline lost her husband Rush to Cancer in July of 1999. She remained single the rest of her life and relocated to Charlotte, NC in December of 2004. Jacqueline passed away in the grace and comfort of the Novant Hospice Ward, Presbyterian Hospital, Uptown-Charlotte, NC at 12:40pm on September, 26, 2016. Her children were gathered around her immediately afterward. Jacqulines funeral services will be held Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 2 oclock at the Perkinsville Baptist Church in a portion of Boone, NC. A burial will follow at The Mount Lawn Memorial Park and Gardens. All who attend and care to are welcomed by the family to join afterward at Lodge near Blowing Rock for refreshments. Online condolences may be shared at the website www.austinandbarnesfuneralhome.com Austin & Barnes Funeral Home and Crematory is serving the Tindell family.