Mary Marie Gimon, 93, of Port Neches passed away on May 13, 2008, at Cypress Glen Nursing Home where she had resided for the past four years.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 am on Friday, May 16, 2008 in the chapel of Broussard’s in Nederland. Interment will be in Oak Bluff Memorial Park in Port Neches. A gathering of the family and friends will be from 9:00 am until services on Friday at the mortuary.
Mrs. Gimon was born to Charles Theron and Lena Lacy Haskins Flanagan on May 23, 1914 in Laneville, Texas. The family moved to Henderson in the early 1920’s where she grew up. Marie lived in East Texas until 2953 when she and her family moved to the Golden Triangle. Having graduated from Sam Houston State Teachers College, she taught at New Salem and at Arp before she was employed by the Port Neches school system. Marie retired from Woodcrest Elementary in 1975. She was an active member of Delta Kappa Gamma.
Marie was preceded in death by her husband Walter and her brothers Joe and Sam Flanagan and her sister Elizabeth Mason. She is survived by two sons, Walter Allen Gimon and wife Ellen of Nederland, and Charles Edward Gimon of Port Neches; by five grandchildren; Charles Allen Gimon, Dianna Marie Gimon, Thomas Edward Gimon, Jennifer Kay Gimon, and Mary Elizabeth Kinsel; four great grandchildren, Ian, Kinsel, Aubrey Kinsel, David Gimon, and Justin Gimon. Also Marie is survived by her sisters, Martha Jean Holland and Jimmie Lois Jones; and a host of friends.
