Born: December 7, 1921  China Spring, McLennan County, Texas

Died: May 24, 2018 McLennan County, Texas

Daughter of Warner Lee Jenkins and Anice Fay Smith Jenkins

Widow of Jack Ross Carswell

Juanita “Nita” Jenkins Carswell passed away Thursday, May 24, 2018, with family at her side. Services will be 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 30, at First United Methodist Church of Waco with Rev. Molly Simpson and Dr. Steve Ramsdell officiating. Burial will follow at China Spring Cemetery.

Nita was born December 7, 1921, in China Spring, Texas, to Warner Lee Jenkins and Anice Faye Smith Jenkins. She worked for the City of Waco and State of Texas Parks & Wildlife Department prior to retirement. She loved to crotchet and was an accomplished china painter and landscape artist…especially bluebonnets. 

She was preceded in death by her husband, Jack Ross Carswell; parents, Warner and Anice Jenkins; and sisters, Hallie Baldridge and Doris Ann Manning.

She is survived by daughters, Donna Perry Bell and husband, Tom; Annice Perry Lovorn and husband, Jay, and Jackie Carswell Blankenship and husband, Bob; and a host of grand and great grandchildren.

Pallbearers are Tom Bell, Jay Lovorn, Bob Blankenship, Chris Bell, Jeremy Carroll, and Jeff Bell.