Jeanette Gross Ward

Jeanette Gross Ward of Enterprise, AL passed away at home on Saturday, January 31, 2015 following a year-long courageous battle with cancer. She was 78. Funeral services will be at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, February 3, 2015 in the Chapel of Sorrells Funeral Home & Crematory of Enterprise, with interment to follow on Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. in Huntsville Memory Gardens in Huntsville, AL. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Tuesday beginning at 10:00 and continuing until service time. Flowers will be accepted or Memorials may be sent to The Wounded Warrior Project, P.O. Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675. Heartfelt thanks go out to the staffs at Gentiva Home Health and Gentiva Hospice of Enterprise, as well as to special friends and caregivers, Gale and Kim Kurschner, Sara and Mark Trimble, and Jan and Jim Parker. Jeanette was born in Tutwiler, MS on October 7, 1936. She graduated West Tallahatchie High School in 1954 and attended Milsaps College in Jackson, MS. She worked at Mercury nuclear testing project in Nevada and on the plans for the first Lunar Lander at Brown Engineering in Huntsville, AL. She married Roy on October 10, 1981 and moved to Enterprise where she worked with her husband as office manager and computer specialist at Ward Accounting until illness forced her retirement in 2014. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where she served valiantly in various callings as a teacher, chorister, and in Relief Society at both the Ward and Stake levels. Jeanette was preceded in death by a son, Daniel Howard; her father, Ercel Gross; her mother, Glenna Gross; and a brother, Glenn H. Gross. She is survived by her husband, Roy B. Ward, Enterprise, AL; sons: Dr. Jon D. Ward (Teresa), Dr. Allen M. Ward (Kimberly), Andalusia, AL; daughters: Susan C. Ward, CRNP Flagstaff, AZ, and M. Nell Eishen, RN (Dennis), Cataula, GA; granddaughters: Tara Bush (Sam), Sydney Ward, Ella Ward; grandsons: Alex Ward, Collin Ward, Zac Eishen, Jake Eishen, Ryder Taplin and Lyle Taplin; niece, Belinda Cribbs; nephews: Keith Gross and Glenn H. Gross, Jr. A daughter, Kathryn Stephens (Bill), Huntsville, AL; grandsons: J.D. and Greg Woodbury; great-granddaughter, Courtney Woodbury; great-grandson, Jeffrey Allen Woodbury also survive. Sorrells Funeral Home and Crematory 334-347-9598 is in charge of arrangements. To sign a guest register visit www.sorrellsfuneralhomes.com. Sign the guest book at www.dothaneagle.com