Jeannette Marie Maze Pierce

Jeannette Marie Maze Pierce, 74, of Orange, died on May 10, 2014, at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont.

Funeral services will be 2PM Tuesday May 13, 2014, at Silver Oaks Baptist Church in Mauriceville. Officiating will be Reverend Ed Rawls. Entombment will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Orange.

Visitation will be from 5-8PM, Monday, May 12, 2014 at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange.

Born in Belpre, Ohio, on August 28, 1939, she was the daughter of Claude Gray and Geraldine Abowe Stewart. She was a member of Silver Oaks Baptist Church. She loved cooking and shopping but she especially loved spending time with her family.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Claude Gray and Geraldine Abowe Stewart; her daughter; Nancy Gunter; 2 great grandsons, Tucker Richards and Aaron Ray Harris; and her Aunt Gloria.

She is survived by her sons, Freddie Collins of Dayton, and Michael Collins of Mauriceville; her daughters, Helen and her husband George Pence of Texarkana, Ann and her husband Andy Anderson of Mauriceville, Myrtle Silva of Little Cypress, and Karen and her husband Lamar Wells of Mauriceville; 35 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; her sister, Karen Lee of Texarkana, and numerous other relatives and friends.

Serving as pallbearers will be Robert Ortiz, Joshua Ortiz, Freddie Collins, Billy Harris, Raymond Butler, Todd Granger, Brian Runnels, and Sean Granger. Honorary pallbearers are Charles Pence, Jeremy Richards, Nathan Collins, Travis Simpson, Eric Runnels, Joshua Hardy, and Kody Young, .

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program at 2390 Dowlen Road, Beaumont, Texas 77706 or to the COPD Foundation at 3300 Ponce de Leon, Miami, Florida 33134.