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- [S47] FindAGrave.com, (http://www.findagrave.com), Find A Grave Memorial# 67678081 (Reliability: 3).
James Bernard "Jim" Ames
Birth: Feb. 9, 1917
Pittsville
Wood County
Wisconsin, USA
Death: Jun. 5, 1997
Lufkin
Angelina County
Texas, USA
Services for James Bernard "Jim" Ames, 80, of Lufkin, were held Saturday, June 7, 1997 in the Henderson Chapel of the First United Methodist Church with burial in the Garden of Memories Memorial Park.
Mr. Ames was born Feb. 9, 1917 in Pittsville, Wisconsin, and died Thursday, June 5, 1997 in a Lufkin hospital.
In 1938, Mr. Ames began working his way through the poultry and dairy business for Armour, Inc., in Creston, Iowa, and later in Superior, Nebraska. He started out as a boy cleaning chicken coops and progressed to mamagement with that company. In 1950, he left Armour and went to work for Pluss Poultry in Siloam Springs, AR, working for partners, Frank Pluss and Bill Simmons. In 1953, Frank Pluss moved him to Lufkin, where he started Pluss-Tex Poultry, which is now Pilgrim's Pride, Inc. He built his own chicken processing plant, Angelina Poultry, in association with Roy Hurst and Harry English. He also was associated with Roy Herider of Herider Farms, Inc. In 1972, the Ames family opened the first Ames' Fried Chicken store in Lufkin. This was followed by additional stores in Crockett, Orange, Longview, Nacogdoches, Jasper and a second location in Lufkin.
Mr. Ames was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Lufkin.
Survivors: wife of 57 years, Roberta Ames of Lufkin; daughter and son-in-law, Susan and Larry Dickens of Lufkin; grandchildren, Laurie Suzane Kittlewell of Nacogdoches, David Michael Anderson Jr. of Huntsville; and sister, Hazel (Toddy) Duncan of Rogers, AR.
Gipson Funeral Home, directors.
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Spouse:
Roberta L. Miers Ames (1921 - 2014)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Garden of Memories Cemetery
Lufkin
Angelina County
Texas, USA
Created by: Carmelita Andrews Rhode...
Record added: Mar 30, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 67678081
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