Loretta Viola Jennings' Obituary
Loretta Viola Jennings was born to her parents, Wilford and Geneva Hampton, on a farm located outside Champion, Nebraska, on December 14,, 1935. She was the youngest of their three children. Loretta is preceded in death by her first husband, Gerald Freemyer, their sons, Bobby, Tommy and Steve Freemyer, grandson, Randy Freemyer, Loretta’s second husband, Morris Jennings, and her brother, Bill Hampton. Loretta is survived by her son Gary Freemyer and his wife Terrie, and her daughter Debbie Freemyer; grandchildren, Danny Freemyer and his wife Crystal, Kristina Freemyer, Francisco Gomez, Stephanie Freemyer, and Coby Joe Freemyer; great grandchildren, Reggie and Haylee Rockhill, and Corbin Freemyer; and great-great granddaughter, Amara Warren, step grandson Michael Tanner, step great grandkids Colbie Hall and Emma Cash. She is also survived by her sister, Bernita Greely of Nebraska, and her many nieces and nephews in Nebraska and the surrounding states.
Loretta was born and raised on a farm, and graduated high school in 1954 in Imperial, Nebraska. She married Gerald Freemyer and they traveled all over the western United States while he worked for a company running cross-country power lines. They returned to Colorado and tried their hand at farming for a number of years. The family moved to Dallas, Texas, in 1968, where Loretta worked at Texas Instruments and later Raytheon as an accountant until her retirement. Her first husband Gerald passed in 1975, and she later married her second husband, Morris Jennings, who passed in 2011.
Loretta enjoyed traveling. She and Morris went to Alaska, Hawaii, and New Orleans. After her retirement, she traveled with The Texas Road Runners to Missouri, Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, Tennessee, the Grand Canyon and other places in the United States.
Since moving to Dallas, Loretta was a long-term member of the Casa Linda Methodist Church in Dallas.
She will be dearly missed by all of us, and we all hope she saves us a spot to meet again in Heaven.
We will celebrate the life of Loretta on Thursday, March 27, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. in the Wildwood Chapel at Restland Funeral Home. For the family, interment will begin at 3:00 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to The Huntington's Disease Society of America. This is the disease that took the lives of Gerald Freemyer and their three sons.
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