Obituary: Cherry Ann Moorhead Higgins

Jun. 9, 2021

November 29, 1948 – May 30, 2021

Cherry Ann Moorhead Higgins was born to Jack W. Moorhead and Dora Inez Hutson Moorhead in Garland, Texas. She was in the South Garland High School Class of 1967, but graduated from Mountain View High School in Santa Anna, California.

Cherry married John A. Higgins and they produced a daughter, Anna Laura who gave her Brent Reagan, a grandson. Cherry married Michael W. Jones, her second Marine in a relationship that lasted 44 years until her death due to a stroke. Her second marriage gave her a bonus son, Jeffrey T. Jones and two bonus granddaughters, Scarlett Elizabeth and Ashley Kate.

Cherry attended UNT and Texas Wesleyan University where she received her Juris Doctorate before Wesleyan becoming Texas A&M University’s Law School.

Visitation will be held at 11 a.m., June 12, 2021, at Williams Funeral Home in Garland. The funeral will follow at 1 p.m. Burial will be at DFW Veterans Memorial later for family and clergy only.

Cherry is survived by husband Michael, daughter Anna and James Barton, grandson Brent and wife Robin, brother Bruce “Buck” Moorhead and wife Lynn, and two granddaughters Elizabeth and Ashley.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that any gift made on behalf of Cherry go to: The Leukemia & Lymphoma or The American Heart Association.

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