Joanne “Jody” Groom, 83, died peacefully after church on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, at the Kemp Care Center in Kemp, Texas. She was also known as Jo and Texas Red.
She is survived by a son, Mark Warde, 63, of Ennis, and daughter, Karen Williams, 61, of Terrell, and a sister, LaVerne Morton, of Eustace. She was preceded in death by eight of her 10 siblings; Lewis Neighbors, Pat Neighbors, Dorothy Thane, Alice Hamilton, Morris Boyd Butch Neighbors, Jerry Neighbors, Christine Lewis and Linda Brown and Joanne’s parents, John Henry and Inez Neighbors.
