Jewel Annette Devall Rodgers was born on September 29,1954 to Harman and Marcy Devall in Beeville, Tx.  She entered Heaven’s gates on December 26, 2025, with her mother, sisters, and children by her side.  She was 71 years old.

Jewel grew up in Pettus and attended school there, graduating in 1973.  She married her High School Sweetheart, Robert Rodgers, on June 8, 1974.  She, like both of her sisters, was an LVN, working in home health after years of working as an ER nurse.  Jewel was also a licensed beautician.  She took great pride in her family and loved staying involved in everything she could to spend time with her kids and grandkids.  She was a fixture for years at her kids and later her grandkids’ sporting events, whether it be a youth sports organization, or her favorite team, the Pettus Eagles.  She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Pettus.

She loved camping and often shared her cherished memories of times spent at the lake in Mathis or from her times on the Frio River.  There were trips to Louisiana and Cancun she spoke of often.  It was time she spent with her entire family, often sharing her RV or renting a cabin, enjoying time away from reality as she called it with those she loved the most in life.  You could always count on a game of dominoes or Yahtzee at her campsite, clean up to the time everyone else at the table either started cheating or conspired to keep her from winning.  If nothing else, she always was competitive, even after she retired.

Jewel was someone who loved and truly valued each of her many friends that she made over the years.  She held each of them close to her heart.  She would do anything for anyone and give anything she had to anyone in need.  Whether she had it to spare or not.  She spent countless hours listening to and sharing with anyone who’d listen along with her, her music from the 60’s.  It was nothing to have her ask you to download a certain song because she had someone on her heart and that song reminded her of that person.  Music and the joy it brought her accompanied every memory she had with every single person she encountered in life.

She was preceded in death by Maternal grandparents Ray and Francis Crepps.  Paternal grandparents Harman Leavette and Jewel Devall.  Her Father, Harman Devall, her husband, Robert Rodgers, a granddaughter, Victoria Lyssy, and two grandsons, Gavin Rodgers and Richard Gomez III.

Left to cherish her memory are her mother Marcella Devall of Pettus, sister Carman (Johnny) Gisler of Pettus, sister Fran (Bobby) Pargmann of Pettus, daughter Shannon (John) Hodge of Pettus, son Robert (Jena) Rodgers of Beeville, and son Michael (Misty) Rodgers of Mineral.  Grandchildren John Robert Hodge, Marcella Hodge (Shonn), Chris (Kristen) Lyssy, Maddisyn Rodgers, Robert Rodgers, Darryn Rodgers, Savannah Rodgers, Stephen Perez, Brandy (Kiara) Perez, Dara Gomez, and Krystal Gomez.  Great Grandchildren Patton Lyssy, Hayden Lyssy, Kinsley Gomez and Richard “Little Pops” Gomez.  Many nieces, nephews, cousins and her many friends she loved like family.

Visitation will be held on Tuesday, December 30, 2025 from 10am until 11am at Eckols Funeral Home in Kenedy, Tx.  A service will be held at the funeral home chapel beginning at 11am, with a graveside service to follow at the San Domingo Cemetery in Normanna.  Pallbearers are John Robert Hodge, Robert Rodgers, Darryn Rodgers, Stephen Perez, Chris Lyssy, and Matt Helford.