Roger Hoyal Jeffers

Roger Hoyal Jeffers, age 83, of Oneida, TN, passed away on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at the University of Tennessee Hospital.  Born June 10, 1940, in Scott County, TN, he was the son of the late James Hoyal and Eula Jean DeBord Jeffers.  He was a member of the New Haven Missionary Baptist Church.

Roger was the oldest of five children, and in his 83 years there are plenty of yarns to be told.  After graduation from Oneida High School, he attended TN Tech and the University of Tennessee where he obtained his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering.  Robert Shaw of Knoxville was the beginning of jobs and travels that he loved so much.  He was most proud of having had a part in the creation and design of the Boeing 747 while living in Seattle, Washington.  He wound up in Baton Rouge, LA, driving to New Orleans to work on jobs for the Job Corp.  

Upon retirement, he loved traveling North, South, East and West in his motorhome, and had visited most of the states.  But his greatest love was dancing.  He could line dance and boogie with the best of them, but he was known from far and wide for ballroom dancing, and his ability to glide a lady across the floor with grace and poise.  From Oneida, to Knoxville, down to Baton Rouge and New Orleans, he will be greatly missed.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother:  Randy Lee Jeffers and wife Etta Marie Blankenship Jeffers; grandparents:  John Burlin and Kizzie Ann Duncan Jeffers, and Tyler and Mossie Lee Davis DeBord.

Roger is survived by his children:  Roger Craig Jeffers, Nicole Lea Welch and husband Tommy of Arkansas, and Kendra Gail Wells and husband Richard of Baton Rouge; grandchildren:  Alexis and Claire Welch, McKenzie, Everett, Aaron and Rylee Lasseigne, Patricia Faye D. Deocareza, Myrtle Paige D. Deocareza and Jonas Craig Anthony Deocareza, Tim and Hannah Wells and Sarah Taff and husband Steven; great grandchild:  Nova Riley; siblings:  Terrie J. Cross, Doris J. Clayton and husband John, and Cathy J. Burke; several nieces and nephews; as well as other family members and friends.

The family would like to extend heart-felt thanks and gratitude to the doctors who were so kind to Roger during his six-year survival of Lymphoma.  He knew without your expertise he would have succumbed much earlier.  They include Dr. Wahid T. Hanna of the University of Tennessee Medical Center, and Dr. Steven Josh Thompson of the Thompson Clinic, and each member of their staff, as well as many other doctors he saw over the years.  It meant a lot to him and all his family, and you will not be forgotten.

Friends may visit with the Jeffers family from 11:00 a.m. until time of a Celebration of Life Service at 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in the Chapel of Jones & Son Funeral Home.

Committal service will follow in Cooper Memorial Gardens.  Pallbearers will be family and friends.

Jones & Son Funeral Home is serving the family of Roger Hoyal Jeffers.

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