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Charles Jennings Sr.
FULTON, Ky. — Charles Ray “Joe Cool” Jennings Sr., 62, formerly of Charleston, Mo., died Sept. 10, 2018, at his daughter's home in Charleston.
Born April 2, 1956, in Diehlstadt, Mo., son of the late James Charles Jennings and Veatrice Crider Wilson, he attended Mercy Seat Missionary Baptist Church before relocating to Fulton. He was a self-employed contractor.
He was also preceded in death by two brothers, Anthony Wilson and James Ezell Jennings; three sisters, Margaret Petty, Lettie Jennings, and Ella Austin.
Survivors include: two sons, Marcus (Artasha) Pittman and Charles Ray Jennings, Jr. of Charleston; five daughters, Lashina Johnson of Columbus, Ohio, Terri Lakisha Craig of Ypsilanti, Michigan, Zamecka (Adrian) Jennings of Charleston, Missouri, Velvet (Darryl) Jennings-Straughter of Canton, Ohio, and Takeedra Moore of Jonesboro, Arkansas; nine brothers, J.D. (Gloria) Wilson of Bertrand, Missouri, Favis (Tonya) Wilson, Lorenzo Wilson, Frederick (Kelley) Jennings, DeRandie Jennings, and Byron Martin all of Charleston, Missouri, James Wilson of Nashville, Tennessee, Rashad Maxwell of Memphis, Tennessee, and James Keith (Estalene) Jennings of Kankakee, Ill.; eight sisters, LaWanda (Ricky) Wilson and Mickie Martin of Charleston, Missouri, Carolyn (Aaron) Brown of Dayton, Ohio, Velzora (Monroe) Jenkins of O'Fallon, Missouri, Dorothy (Garfield) Jones of Bourbonnais, Illinois, Johnnie Mae Bell of Kankakee, Illinois, Jacqueline (Charles) McElroy of San Jose, California, and Charlene Adam of Pearl, Mississippi, one stepson, Harold Brown of Fulton, Kentucky, three stepdaughters, Victoria Grubbs, Rachael Pledge, and Tyrhonda Brown of Fulton, Kentucky, and 20 grandchildren, two great grandchildren, 11 step-grandchildren.
Visitation is from noon until service time at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Bowden Civic Center in Charleston.
Burial will immediately follow in Oak Grove Cemetery in Charleston with the Williams Funeral Home of Charleston in charge of arrangements.