Jo "Bo" Reynolds, 95, of Big Spring, passed away on Thursday, September 22, 2005, at her home. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 AM Monday, September 26, 2005, at the Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel with Rev. Elwin Collom, Home Hospice Chaplain, officiating. Interment will follow at Trinity Memorial Park.The family will be at 1610 Indian Hills.Bo was born on December 21, 1909 on the family farm in Coke, Wood County, Texas. She attended school in Coke and graduated from high school in Quitman, Texas. She attended the former East Texas State Teachers College in Commerce and received a teacher's certificate in 1927. She married Curtis "Rip" Reynolds on December 29, 1929 in Texarkana and they moved to Big Spring in 1934. Mr. Reynolds preceded her in death on May 9, 1984.After raising three children, Bo worked for Tot-n-Teen from 1953 until 1959. She then worked for J.C. Penney from 1959 until 1961, at which time she became co-owner of Mary-Jo Dress Shop. She later returned to J. C. Penney and retired in 1968.In 1984 after the death of her husband, she began volunteer work at Scenic Mountain Medical Center. She was a familiar face at the facility on Monday and Wednesday, and accumulated over 14,000 hours until her retirement on February 25, 1998. In 1996 she was the recipient of the Kate Irons Award, which was reserved for those performing extraordinary service for the hospital. She was a charter member of Baptist Temple Church and has been a member of First Baptist Church since 1979.She is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Della and Doyce Elliott of Scottsdale, Arizona and Jolene and Charles Dunnam of Big Spring; one son, Carl Reynolds of Big Spring; five grandchildren, Linda Graves of Seattle, Washington, Darin Graves of Snoqualmie, Washington, Craig Dunnam and Clark Dunnam both of Big Spring and Jill Mize of Amarillo and nine great grandchildren, Cliff, Chad and Caylie Dunnam, Justin and Jenna Mize, Payton and Parker Graves and Chase and Chloe Dunnam.She was also preceded in death by her first grandson, Scott Graves in 1987; her sister Bobbie Peters and brother, Tilmon Lloyd.Pallbearers will be her grandsons and great grandsons, Craig Dunnam, Clark Dunnam, Johnny Mize, Darin Graves, Cliff Dunnam, Chad Dunnam, and Justin Mize.The family requests memorials be made to Home Hospice, 111 E. 7th, Big Spring, Texas 79720, the American Heart Association, 3205 W. Cuthbert, Ste A-5, Midland, Texas 79701 or the American Cancer Society, %Lucy Bonner, P.O. Box 2121, Big Spring, Texas 79721-2121.Arrangements under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Big Spring. Online condolences can be made at: www.npwelch.com,
