Janis Rankin

Rankin

Services for Janis Rankin, 87, will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, June 8, at Reeder-Davis Chapel with Bro. Bryan Baggett officiating. Interment will follow at Woodlawn Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday.

Mrs. Rankin was born Oct. 28, 1925, in Hughes Springs to Nathaniel and Sadie Harrell Gibson and died June 4.

She was married to Arnold J. Rankin, on July 2, 1943.  Early in their marriage they enjoyed several years of snow-capped mountains, sandy desert, and the grassy valley of Blue Diamond, Nev.  Homesick, they moved back home to Hughes Springs and enjoyed 58 years together.

Mrs. Rankin was a member of the First Baptist Church of Hughes Springs.  She enjoyed her family and visiting with friends.  She never met anyone that she would not strike up a lively conversation with.  Her smiles would brighten any moment.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Nathaniel and Sadie Gibson; her husband Arnold Rankin, on Aug. 10, 2001; a baby brother, William; three sisters, Evelyn Adams, Jaquelyn Shelton, and Harolyn Burney; and two brothers, W. P. and Ted Gibson.

Survivors include two daughters and son-in-laws, Rebecca and John Ronnie Sneed, of Wolf City, and Vickie and Mike Dyke of Daingerfield.  She enjoyed her four grandchildren and their wives/husbands, Jonathan and Mary Sneed, of Garland, Kelley and Nick Alexander, of Hughes Springs, Michael and Jennifer Dyke, of Houston, Rachel and Kris Yoder, of Beaufort, South Carolina.    She has nine great-grandchildren, Jaden, Jaycee, Kenzie, and Olivia Alexander, Karleigh Dyke, Taylor and Morgan Yoder, and Stella and Penelope Sneed.  She is also survived by her two brothers and their wives, Joe and Mima Rae Gibson, of Bedford, and Pat and Mary Jean Gibson, of Mesquite; her sister Barbara Smith, of Hughes Springs; as well as several nephews and nieces. 

Online condolences may be left to www.reeder-davis.com