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Jessie Papageorgeon Obituary

Jessie Rosalie Papageorgeon, 90, of Somerville, Tennessee passed away on Monday, November 25, 2024. Jessie was born in Crystal City, Missouri on October 17, 1934.

She was preceded in death by her husband Anthony Papageorgeon, her father John Dinolfo and mother Bernice Dinolfo, her 2 brothers, Mike Dinolfo, and Tony Dinolfo and 2 sisters, Mary Rooker and Catherine Zullo.

She leaves six children, Anna York, Paul Papageorgeon, Mary (Jerry) Nichols, John (Cindy) Papageorgeon, Debbie (Jeff) Burkhead and Carolyn (Kevin) Osborne; 12 grandchildren: Brian York, Andy (Ranee) York, Erika (Michael) Sullivan, Lauren (David) Barsotti, Lindsay (John) Massey, Jay (Marie) Nichols, Ashlee (Clark) Talley, Andrea (Jeremy) Kee, Justin Burkhead, Matt (Christy) Burkhead, and Anthony and Leo Osborne; and 16 great-grandchildren.

She was a communicant of St. Ann's Catholic Church in Bartlett, Tennessee.

Family and friends will gather on Monday, December 2 from ten o'clock in the morning until Funeral Mass begins at eleven o'clock in the morning all at St. Ann Catholic Church, 6529 Stage Road, Bartlett, Tennessee 38134. Entombment will follow with escorted procession in the mausoleum at Calvary Cemetery.

The family requests any financial donations in Jessie's name be sent to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Online condolences, floral tributes and directions may be found through www.memphisfuneralhome.net.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by The Daily Memphian on Nov. 27, 2024.

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Dec

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10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

St. Ann Catholic Church

6529 Stage Road, Bartlett, TN

Dec

2

Funeral Mass

11:00 a.m.

St. Ann Catholic Church

6529 Stage Road, Bartlett, TN

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