Jeanita Ruth (Cure) Griffin was born August 7, 1898 in Pandors, (Wilson Co.) Texas, to Richard McClure Cure and Mattie Jane Temple. Richard Cure was very sick with Diabetes. He wanted to return to his parent’s home (Elias and Tennessee Cure) where he died in 1901. Jeanita was 3 years old.  Jeanita and her mother Mattie Jane lived  with family and friends. Jeanita stayed  with Elias and Tennessee Cure while Mattie worked at different ranches cooking for the ranch hands. Later Jeanita stayed with Grandpa and Grandma Temple (James Allen and Nance Ann (King) (Oats) Temple) and another family member, Uncle John Byston Temple.

Uncle John Byston Temple was married to Richard's sister, Ninetta Cure. The last family member that Jeanita  lived with, that we are aware of, was her Uncle John Fly Cure, Richard's brother. Jeanita was 10 or 11 years old when her mother married James Snell, who was a veterinarian. Jeanita  was 12 years old when Freddie (Peggy) May (Snell) Willford, her sister was born.  Jeanita died in Nederland, Texas on Friday March, 26, 1999 at 6:48 PM.  Her daughter Sue King and son Thomas Jean were with her when she left this earth to enter Heaven.  Services where held at Hillcrest Baptist Church in Nederland, Texas with many friends and relatives. Jeanita and Thomas Byrd Griffin are buried in the Justice Cemetery in Warren Texas