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Line 15: − − Jane Terry had two children from a previous marriage, Sharon Jenkinson Reed (born 1945) and husband, Thomas Richard Reed (born July 1941), of Shreveport, and Dr. Stephen George Jenkinson (born 1947) and wife, former educator Suzie Blanton Jenkinson (born 1950), of [[San Antonio]], Texas.<ref name=janeobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=33763343|title=Jane Willis Terry (1926-2009)|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 19, 2014}}</ref><ref name=terryobit/> Dr. Jenkinson was a member of the first graduating class at the LSU Health Sciences Center in his native Shreveport and thereafter a faculty member and researcher of pulmonary diseases at the medical school<ref>{{cite web|url=http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15140coll23/id/3848|title=Jenkinson: A Doctor by Profession and Still a Shreveporter by Choice|publisher=''[[Shreveport Journal]]''|author=Beth Smith|date=June 9, 1981|accessdate=February 11, 2016}}</ref> before he relocated to San Antonio, where he is an internist and pulmonologist. The Jenkinsons had one child, Stephanie Suzanne Jenkinson (1980-2010), Sheriff Terry's step-granddaughter, a medical doctor who died at the age of twenty-nine and is interred at Mission Burial Park North in San Antonio.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Jenkinson&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=46&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=63401626&df=all&|title=Dr. Stephanie Suzanne Jenkinson|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 11, 2016}}</ref> Line 31:
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At the age of twenty, Terry returned to Shreveport, where less than a year later he obtained his high school diploma through the Hope Street High School for returning veterans but is listed in his obituary as a 1945 Byrd graduate. He worked part-time for the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Department and was made a regular deputy in December 1947, under then Sheriff J. Howell Flournoy. He was a deputy for thirty-four years.<ref name=terryobit/>Having attended various law-enforcement training schools, Terry rose to the rank of [[captain]] and then [[lieutenant]]. From March 2, 1961, until her death, he was married to the former Jane Willis (1926-2009), the daughter of Thomas Morris Willis and the former Pinkie Langlow (1902-1993).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Willis&GSfn=Pinkie&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=13487936&df=all&|title=Pinkie Langlow Willis|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 8, 2016}}</ref> It was the second marriage for each. Like her husband, Jane was an expert marksman and certified rifle instructor.<ref name=janeobit/> Terry had one child from each marriage, the late David Bryan Terry and Shannon Terry Wiley and her husband, Kenneth, of The Woodlands, Texas.<ref name=terryobit/>
At the age of twenty, Terry returned to Shreveport, where less than a year later he obtained his high school diploma through the Hope Street High School for returning veterans but is listed in his obituary as a 1945 Byrd graduate. He worked part-time for the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Department and was made a regular deputy in December 1947, under then Sheriff J. Howell Flournoy. He was a deputy for thirty-four years.<ref name=terryobit/>Having attended various law-enforcement training schools, Terry rose to the rank of [[captain]] and then [[lieutenant]]. From March 2, 1961, until her death, he was married to the former Jane Willis (1926-2009), the daughter of Thomas Morris Willis and the former Pinkie Langlow (1902-1993).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Willis&GSfn=Pinkie&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=13487936&df=all&|title=Pinkie Langlow Willis|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 8, 2016}}</ref> It was the second marriage for each. Like her husband, Jane was an expert marksman and certified rifle instructor.<ref name=janeobit/> Terry had one child from each marriage, the late David Bryan Terry and Shannon Terry Wiley and her husband, Kenneth, of The Woodlands, Texas.<ref name=terryobit/>
Terry won competitions in pistols and shoulder-fired weapons. Under Sheriff Flournoy, with the subsequent assistance of his wife Jane, Terry supervised the popular Junior Rifle Program to teach marksmanship to the young. He was the departmental firearms training officer in charge of the sheriff's pistol team.<ref name=sheriffsdepartment/> He also taught marksmanship to the [[Boy Scouts of America]].<ref name=terryobit/> In 1961, Terry was invited to display his marksmanship at the former Arkla Village, a re-creation of a 19th-century frontier town located near Emmet, Arkansas, off U.S. Highway 67. The park operated from the late 1950s until the late 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://arkansasacer.tripod.com/id67.html|title=Arkla Village|publisher=arkansasacer.tripod.com|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}</ref>''The Hope Star'' newspaper, in an article announcing his appearance at the roundup, called Terry "one of the Southwest's outstanding shooting experts with pistol, rifle, and shotgun."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/8181794/|title="Arkla Village Roundup to Feature Crack Shot Capt. Harold M. Terry"|publisher=''The Hope Star''|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}</ref>
Terry won competitions in pistols and shoulder-fired weapons. Under Sheriff Flournoy, with the subsequent assistance of his wife Jane, Terry supervised the popular Junior Rifle Program to teach marksmanship to the young. He was the departmental firearms training officer in charge of the sheriff's pistol team.<ref name=sheriffsdepartment/> He also taught marksmanship to the [[Boy Scouts of America]].<ref name=terryobit/> In 1961, Terry was invited to display his marksmanship at the former Arkla Village, a re-creation of a 19th-century frontier town located near Emmet, Arkansas, off U.S. Highway 67. The park operated from the late 1950s until the late 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://arkansasacer.tripod.com/id67.html|title=Arkla Village|publisher=arkansasacer.tripod.com|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}</ref>''The Hope Star'' newspaper, in an article announcing his appearance at the roundup, called Terry "one of the Southwest's outstanding shooting experts with pistol, rifle, and shotgun."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/8181794/|title="Arkla Village Roundup to Feature Crack Shot Capt. Harold M. Terry"|publisher=''The Hope Star''|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}</ref>
==Death==
==Death==
Jane Terry had two children from a previous marriage, Sharon Jenkinson Reed (born 1945) and husband, Thomas Richard Reed (born July 1941), of Shreveport, and Dr. Stephen George Jenkinson (born 1947) and wife, former educator Suzie Blanton Jenkinson (born 1950), of [[San Antonio]], Texas.<ref name=janeobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=33763343|title=Jane Willis Terry (1926-2009)|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 19, 2014}}</ref><ref name=terryobit/> Dr. Jenkinson was a member of the first graduating class at the LSU Health Sciences Center in his native Shreveport and thereafter a faculty member and researcher of pulmonary diseases at the medical school<ref>{{cite web|url=http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15140coll23/id/3848|title=Jenkinson: A Doctor by Profession and Still a Shreveporter by Choice|publisher=''[[Shreveport Journal]]''|author=Beth Smith|date=June 9, 1981|accessdate=February 11, 2016}}</ref> before he relocated to San Antonio, where he is an internist and pulmonologist. The Jenkinsons had one child, Stephanie Suzanne Jenkinson (1980-2010), Sheriff Terry's step-granddaughter, a medical doctor who died at the age of twenty-nine and is interred at Mission Burial Park North in San Antonio.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Jenkinson&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=46&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=63401626&df=all&|title=Dr. Stephanie Suzanne Jenkinson|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 11, 2016}}</ref>
Terry died in Shreveport at the age of ninety. Services were held at the [[Roman Catholic]] St. John Berchmans Cathedral. Harold and Jane Terry are interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=terryobit/>
Harold Terry died in Shreveport at the age of ninety. Services were held at the [[Roman Catholic]] St. John Berchmans Cathedral. Harold and Jane Terry are interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=terryobit/>
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