Surname	Shook
Given Name	Jesse Earl Sr.
Alias	Earl
Gender	Male
Born	19-JUN-1908 in Huffsmith, Montgomery County, Texas (Certificate 1117)
Died	17-NOV-1964 at Saint Mary's Hospital, Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas (Certificate 71686)
Buried	19-NOV-1964 in Greenlawn Cemetery, Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas
SSN	461-07-3613
Father	Joseph Webster SHOOK, SR. (21-JUL-1887 TX - 26-JAN-1955 TX)
Mother	Tassie PATE (05-DEC-1880 TX - 28-MAR-1910 TX)

Family Line

Jesse Earl Sr.-> Joseph Webster Sr. (f)-> Theodrick (gf)-> Josiah Webster (g-gf)-> Abraham (gg-gf)-> Johanne Jacob (ggg-gf)-> Johanne Hans George (Schuck) (gggg-gf)-> Johannes (Schuck) (ggggg-gf).

Marriage

24-FEB-1934 in Houston, Harris County, Texas to Effie Agnes GIROIR (18-MAR-1909 LA - 05-MAR-1964 TX)

Children

• Jesse Earl SHOOK, Jr. (14-MAR-1935 TX - 11-JAN-1999 TX)
• Jan Joseph SHOOK, Sr. (09-APR-1938 TX - )
• Dean Anthony SHOOK (27-MAY-1946 TX - )

Death Notice

J. E. Shook Rites Slated

Funeral services for Jesse Earl Shook, 56, of 3018 10th street, Port Arthur, owner operator of the Port Acres pharmacy, will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Clayton-Thomson-Stephens Funeral home chappel.

Mr. Shook died Monday at 1 p.m. in St. Mary's hospital after a two-week illness.

The Rev. Louis Sada, pastor of the Aldersgate Methodist church, will officiate. Masonic graveside rites will be conducted in Greenlawn Memorial park by Cosmopolitan Lodge 872, AF and AM, of Port Arthur.

A native of Montgomery, Texas, Mr. Shook had lived in Port Arthur 25 years. He was a member of the Methodist faith and Goose Creek Masonic Lodge 1192 [?] of Galveston, was a 32nd degree Mason of the Galveston Scottish Rite bodies, a Knight Templar, member of Port Arthur Commandery 73, and the El Mina Shrine Temple of Galveston.

Survivors are the three sons, Jan, Dean and Jesse E. Shook, Jr., all of Port Arthur; his mother Mrs. Joseph Webster Shook of Anahuac; three brothers, T.E. Shook of Beaumont, J.W. Shook, Jr. of Post, Texas, and Lloyd Shook of Anahuac; two sisters, Mrs. Bessie E. McGlothlin and Mrs. Beulah A. Dickerson, both of Houston; and three grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be David Reid, H.T. Dodge, Sr., B.C. Falkenberg, T.F. Donald, J.W. Summersgill and F.B. Taylor.

Obiturary

J.E. SHOOK OF PT. ARTHUR DIESServices for Pharmacy Owner Will Be Thursday

PORT ARTHUR (Spl)-Jesse Earl Shook, 56, of 3018 Tenth St., owner of the Port Acres Pharmacy, died at 1 p.m. Tuesday in St. Mary's Hospital after an illness of two weeks. He was a native of Port Arthur. He was a 32nd degree Mason, a member of Goose Creek Masonic Lodge 1192, Scotish Rite Bodies of Galveston, Port Arthur Commandery 73, Knights Templar, and El Mina Shrine Temple of Galveston. He is survived by three sons, J.E. Shook, Jr., Jan Shook and Dean Shook, all of Port Arthur; his mother, Mrs. Joseph Webster Shook, Anahuac; three brothers, Joseph Webster Shook Jr., Post Tex., T.E. Shook, Beaumont, and Lloyd Shook, Anahuac; two sisters, Mrs. Bessie E. McGlophlin and Mrs. Beulah A. Dickerson, both of Houston, and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Clayton-Thompson-Stephens chapel. The Rev. Louis Sada, pastor of Aldersgate Methodist Church will officiate. Burial will be in Greenlawn Memorial Park with graveside rites under the direction of Cosmopolitan Lodge 872, AF&AM of Port Arthur.

Notes

Mrs. Joseph Webster Shook was Earl's step-mother Bessie (Briscoe) Shook. Earl's three brothers and sisters was actually half-brothers and half-sisters (sharing the same father Joseph Webster Shook, Sr.). T.E. Shook was Thorton Emmett Shook. Bessie E. McGlophlin (nee Bessie Ellen Shook) and Beulah A. Dickerson may have been misspelled (nee Bulah Ada Shook). The three grandchildren mentioned were Ted Shook, Dennis Shook, and Jan Shook, Jr.

History

Earl was born in Montgomery County, Texas. Unfortunately, his mother, Tassie (Pate) Shook, did not live to see his second birthday. So he never quite new his biological mother. Indeed, Bessie (Briscoe) Shook was the only mother he ever new, and all of Earl's children knew Bessie as their grandmother. How much of Earl's childhood was spent in Montgomery County is unknown. However, Earl seemed to be quite familiar with Tassie's family as he visited the Tomball area occasionally with his own children (especially Dean). Indeed, names like Grandpa and Aunt Emma seem to be directed at the Pate side of the family with few, if any references, by J.E., Jan, or Dean Shook about the Shook side of the family (other than Joe).

By 1917, Joe Shook's WWI Draft Registration Card show Joe and Earl living in Goose Creek, Texas (now Baytown). Earl would have been eight years old at that time. Just when Joe and Earl arrived at Goose Creek is unknown, but Earl went on to graduate from the Goose Creek High School in 1927 or 1928. After graduation, he probably worked in the oil business for some time, as that was the occupation of Joe Shook. Later, Earl studied pharmacy through a corresponce course and eventually passed the tests he needed to become a pharmacist. It was the occupation of Pharmacist that everyone remembers him, as he was a pharmacists for much of his life.

By his early twenties, Earl had met Effie Agnes Giroir. She had lived in the Goose Creek/Baytown area most of her life. Where and how they met is unknown.

According to Dean, Earl was Methodist (as indicated by his obiturary). Although he did not regularly go to church, he did attend every Easter Sunday. Catholicism was introduced by Effie, which is due to her French-Acadian ancestry.