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James Lester "Jim"
Honeywell
Aug 17, 1932 - Mar 8, 2017
Posted by: Becky Rodgers
Holmes Coffey Murray Funeral Home
Durant, Oklahoma.
(Permission granted)
Jim was born to Ancil and Beulah Honeywell on August 17, 1932 in Valliant, Oklahoma. Jim was a graduate of Valliant High School and earned his master’s degree from Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Journalism. During his life, Jim was a man of many trades and a true renaissance man. He was a newspaper writer and editor for the Tyler Morning Telegraph, as well as many other newspapers throughout Southern Oklahoma, a radio sportscaster, a high school chemistry teacher, and a preacher. Jim also operated his family forestry business with his father and his son, and later his grandsons. He was instrumental in creating the Little Dixie Community Action Agency and was a great advocate for Southeastern Oklahoma. Jim had recently taken up song writing at the age of 84 and had plans to create an organic grist mill in Hochatown, Oklahoma.
Jim is survived by his daughters Elizabeth Gray and her husband Eric, Debbie Sharp and her husband Ron, his sister Lena Smith, and his grandchildren, Scott Christian, Amy Pierce, Michael Bryan Pierce, Patrick Pierce, Tyler Honeywell, Catherine Moore and Emily Rigazzi, as well as 17 “exceptional and extraordinary” great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild, nieces, Karen Mahaffey and Twyla Holloway, and nephew, Kyle Smith.He was preceded in death by his beautiful Jo, and his sons Joel and Gary.
Services for Jim will be held on Saturday, March 11, 2017 at the Slim Church of Christ at 11:00 a.m. Jim will be interred at the Moran Cemetery.This site may be freely linked, but not duplicated in any way without consent.
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