Jeana Lynn Blackford, age 45 went to be with the lord on Saturday November 10th 2018, at her home in Baytown. From her birth in Baytown on May 11, 1973 she was filled with passion for her family, friends, church and her city. At an early age she sang in her church and loved traveling to other churches to sing and fellowship with everyone, always willing to go out of her way for a friend. Jeana was very popular in school and possessed an uncanny ability to remember everyone she ever met, greeting them with a smile and a hug. She graduated from Lee High School in 1991 and was a card carrying Gander, she would wear her Gander colors with pride sitting on the Sterling side during “The Game” while cheering for her daughter in the Sterling Stars.
She took great pride in her work at Boeing doing scheduling and logistics for the new job integration of equipment for the International Space Station. She frequently worked with engineers and astronauts who affectionately nicknamed her “Squatty” from her usual position while going over plans and correcting their ideas of how “it is supposed to work”. She frequently traveled to Kennedy Space Center and watched space shuttle launches from a close proximity that few ever get to witness.
Her entire life Jeana was involved in politics both local and national, even from an early age she earned a reputation of tenacity when it came to her innate sense of right and wrong, she could be your biggest supporter or harshest critic at the same time. Her work on campaigns eventually lead her to working on state gubernatorial, congressional, senate and even presidential campaigns. Her proudest moment coming with the election of Donald Trump, a campaign she herself worked on, she was invited to and attended the inauguration in Washington, D.C. beaming like the lone star itself.
She is preceded in death by her father John H. McCormick and is survived by her mother Patsy McCormick, daughter Courtlyn McCormick, step-daughter Emily Blackford and husband Daniel Blackford.
The memorial service will be held on November 17, 2018 at 2:00 PM at Cedar Bayou Baptist Church, 3116 N. Alexander Baytown, TX 77520.
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