Hollingsworth

SILVERTON—Jack was born to William Jordan and Gladys Lillian Hollingsworth in Silverton on Aug. 31, 1938.

He grew up with his two sisters. For fun Jack and his sisters would hunt for arrowheads. They would then trade the arrowheads for marbles.

Jack and his sister, Joann, would sing on the Floydada radio broadcast for the weekly Silverton hour. He got many requests from his radio fans to sing.

Jack attended Silverton High School and played football but practiced his roping every chance he got.

He helped his parents on the farm and started working as a welder before joining the U.S. Navy in 1961.

While in the Navy, Jack perfected his welding skills and worked as a ship fitter welder on nuclear powered submarines in California.

He was then sent to Vietnam. His job in Vietnam was working on a wooden mine sweeper.

After Jack’s Vietnam tour he returned to California. However, while crossing the Pacific the crew encountered three typhoons. He was one of the sailors that was sent overboard in the typhoon to rescue crew members from another ship that was sinking.

Jack was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy with a certificate for distinguished service.

After serving, he went on to work as a welding engineer, safety inspector, project manager, project welding superintendent-consultant and he even started his own welding school.

Jack also worked for Daniel Construction, Fluor Daniel Construction, Brown & Root, Superconducting Super Collider, Bechtel Mexico, World Wide Welding and WHM, just to name a few.

His career took him all over the world including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Aruba, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Mexico, Venezuela and many locations in the United States.

He never knew a stranger. While Jack was working on the super collider he built the prototype for the resistive corrector magnet. He also developed the correct procedure for welding all of the magnets for the super collider.

In his spare time he was a volunteer fireman.

Jack was truly a jack of all trades and a master of many. He loved to fish, hunt, mechanic, race cars, calf rope, ride horses, garden, cook, make his own tools and belt buckles. He also enjoyed reading about all his hobbies and telling stories. He loved spending time with his family and always looked forward to the trips to the Panhandle in August when everyone would gather for the annual celebration.

Jack was preceded in death by his parents and sister, JoAnne Clayton, and her husband, Jerry.

Survivors are his wife, Janelle House; his daughter, Shannon Cuevas and husband Gerald; his grandchildren, Maddison Wenger and husband Kolby, Jaiden, Jonah and Juliet; his sister, Peggy Rowell and husband WD; also, many nieces, nephews and friends.

Services were held on Saturday, March 9, 2024, at Crawford Bowers Funeral Home in Killeen.

Graveside services were held Monday, March 11, at Silverton Cemetery in Silverton.