Ollie C. Jack, Jr., age 94, of Dallas, Texas passed away Tuesday, July 31, 2018, in Dallas. Services will be 11:00 am Saturday, August 4, 2018, in the Gene Roden Memorial Chapel of Roden Pryor Funeral Directors with John Cannon as officiant. A time of visitation with the family will take place immediately after the service at the funeral home. A private interment will take place in Evergreen Cemetery.
Ollie was born October 24, 1923, in Paris, Texas to Ollie Cornwallis Jack, Sr. and Bertha Hudgens Jack. He attended Baylor University on a football scholarship where he met the love of his life, Gloria Manon Seawell. They married in 1946 and enjoyed 66 years together until her death in 2012.
After his graduation from Baylor, he and Gloria lived in Dallas and then New Orleans while he worked on degrees at Tulane University. Ollie went to work for Standard Oil of New Jersey, which later became Exxon, and stayed on for 30 years. He later worked for E-Systems and then TXI. In 1954, he and Gloria left New Orleans for Caracas, Venezuela. They also lived in Amway, Venezuela, Bogota, Colombia, Miami, Florida, and Kingston, Jamaica, before moving to Dallas in 1969 where they lived out their lives.
Ollie was quite the athlete and amassed a collection of trophies from playing football, basketball, tennis, golf, baseball, and bowling. He also enjoyed playing bridge and was considered a master bridge player having earned many masterpoints. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy Air Corps.
Ollie was preceded in death by his wife; a brother, Colonel James Henry Jack; two nephews, Johnny Stallings and Bryan Jack, who was killed on 9-11 in the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, where he worked. He is survived by his two sons, James Marshall Jack and Robert Oliver Jack, both of Dallas; sisters, Ruth Ann Stallings and husband, Gene, of Paris, and Martha McGinty, of Houston; nephews, Colonel James Terry Jack and wife, Iris, of New Mexico and Paul McGinty and wife, Laura, of Houston; nieces Anna Lee Stallings Young and husband, Tim, of Dallas, Laurie Stallings Vanderpool and husband, David, of Haiti, Jackie Stallings Chalk and husband, John, of Argyle, Texas, Martha Kate Stallings Gunn and husband, Keith, of Waco, Leanne McGinty Perry and husband, Brian, of Houston, and Janie McGinty of Houston.
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