E. Jean Matthews

E. Jean (Holloway) Matthews September 20, 1926 ~ September 28, 2014 E. Jean (Holloway) Matthews, of Wenatchee, WA, peacefully entered the home of her loving Savior while surrounded by family on Sunday, September 28, 2014. Jean was the fifth born of seven children and the first of three girls. While the family lived on the McMaster Ranch in Hollister, ID, she was born September 20, 1926. Her parents were Ellison E. and Dora Alice (Clinton) Holloway. As a young child, she loved and cared for her younger sisters, as well as taking on the responsibility of preparing family meals and the keeping of the home, due to her mother’s lifelong health problems. Her love of cooking and caring for others continued throughout her life until the very end. Family gatherings always had to involve home cooked meals, made special by her perfected recipes from over the years. Her family will also remember her for the years she spent loving to sew for loved ones, until her eyesight would no longer allow her to do top notch stitches. Once she no longer could sew, she took on another one of her loves, yard saleing, where she would find treasures for everyone she knew. She so enjoyed meeting and visiting with people everywhere she went. Her education began at Springdale School at Berger, ID, before moving to Jerome, ID in 1935, where she attended Appleton School and later, Wendell High School. She married Lloyd C. Matthews on August 3, 1942, at Twin Falls, ID. On July 2, 1943, they welcomed their daughter, Barbara. When Lloyd went into the Army, Jean took a job at JC Penney’s and several other businesses to help provide for the family during World War II. After the War, their daughter, Jean, was born on February 19, 1949. In 1955, she began her career as an operator at Mt. States Telephone and Telegraph. She worked there for ten years and then transferred to Pacific Northwest Bell in Ephrata, WA, when Lloyd accepted a job with the Bureau of Reclamation in Quincy, WA. In 1973, she transferred to the Wenatchee office, where she worked until her retirement in 1982. She was preceded in death by her parents; four brothers, Georgie M., Edward E., Irvin L., and Paul; one sister, Mary A. Edwards; and one grandson, Steve A. Weil. Survivors are her husband of 72 years, Lloyd; her two daughters, Barbara (Roger) Thompson of Palisades, WAand A. Jean Weil of East Wenatchee, WA; a sister, Charlotte Childers of Wendell, ID; five grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren. Funeral Service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Friday, October 3, 2014, at Eastmont Community Church in East Wenatchee. Visitation will be held Thursday, October 2, 2014, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. at Jones & Jones~Betts Funeral Home, Wenatchee. Memorial donations may be made to the Columbia Grove Covenant Church’s Summer Food Program, at 19 McElmurry Lane, East Wenatchee, WA. Please express your thoughts and memories on the online guestbook at jonesjonesbetts.com. Arrangements by Jones & Jones~Betts Funeral Home, Wenatchee.

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E. Jean Matthews

September 20, 1926 - September 28, 2014