Funeral services remembering and honoring the life of Jack Carroll Dollins, Jr., 62, of West Monroe, LA, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, February 1, 2019 at Christ Church in West Monroe, with Rev. Tom Lowe officiating. Interment will follow in Mt. Vernon Baptist Church Cemetery under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home, West Monroe.
Visitation for friends and family will be held on Thursday, January 31, from 4-8 p.m. at Mulhearn Funeral Home in West Monroe.
He died suddenly January 29, 2019 in Arnaudville, LA while visiting friends.
Jack was very involved in the Twin Cities, as a businessman and banker. After serving as a Petty Officer in the United States Navy from 1974 to 1980, he graduated with a degree in Business Management from Northeast Louisiana University and enjoyed a career in banking with American Bank, before starting Ranger Steel Erectors in 1998. He later joined Homeland Bank, where he most recently served as Senior Vice President of the Monroe Region.
Jack loved the outdoors, whether he was hunting or fishing or riding his Harley Davidson, and was very active at West Monroe High School, where he graduated in 1974. He was a former Rebel Club President, and was instrumental in helping in the building of the Rebel Club Pavilion.
He was preceded in death by his mother, Betty Lucas Black of Noodle, Texas.
He is survived by his wife, Sharon Walters Dollins, and children, Jackie D. Tichenor and husband, Wes, Jenni Gomila and husband, Billy and Ian Dollins and wife, Jennifer; daughter, Jade Martin and husband J.W. and daughter, Shelbi Bradberry. Grandchildren, Nora Grace, Wesley and Jackson Tichenor, Ellia Gomila, Jude Dollins, Aiden Lowe and Lucy Mae, Solomon, Bentley, Dahlia and Dillinger Martin. He is the son of Jack C. Dollins, Sr., of Bedford, Texas, and the brother of Janita Denison and husband David, Karon Clementi and husband Perry, Stefanie Tweedy and husband Jerry, and Deborah Ellis; and the mother of his children, Christy Dollins Williams.
Pallbearers will be Jerry Lynn, Todd Franklin, Kenny Rozell, Ryan Ellington, Gene Bayles, Gary Hoover, Jack Skeen, Ronnie Darden and Jeff Letson.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that well-wishers make donations to Jackson’s Hope Foundation, P.O. Box 1552, West Monroe, LA 71294.