Jeannette Beckham

Jeannette (Jo-Jo) Beckham, 62, of Odessa, Texas passed away on December 29, 2024. 

A visitation will be held Monday, January 6, 2025, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, at Sunset Memorial Funeral Home.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM, Tuesday, January 7, 2025, at Sunset Memorial Funeral Home. Brother Harry Irwin of Sherwood Baptist Church will officiate. A burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Arrangements are by Sunset Memorial Gardens and Funeral and Home.

Jeannette Beckham was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on May 2, 1962, to James Harland and LaQuitta Joy DeGraffenreid. She married Thomas Beckham on June 16, 2019, in Odessa. Jo was an educator in Odessa and Midland for 20 years. She loved all her students and would talk about them often.

Jeannette was preceded in death by her parents and first husband, Larry Don Tull, Sr.

She is survived by her husband, Thomas Beckham; sons, Larry Don Tull, Jr. (September) and James Wesley Tull (Amanda); sister JaJuan DeGraffenreid; brother James Richard DeGraffenreid (Tana); grandchildren, Robert Hickman, John Charles Tull, Alex Tull and Victoria Davis; father and mother-in-law, James and Mary Beckham of Odessa; brother and sister in-law, Tim & Jodi Beckham of San Antonio; and numerous nieces, nephews and great-nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be Wesley Tull, Charles Tull, Dalton DeGraffenreid, Jared Jennings, Robert Hickman and Michael Reece. Honorary pallbearers will be Larry Don Tull, Jr. and Terry Reece.

Memorial donations may be made to M. D. Anderson Cancer Center or St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. The family wish to extend their gratitude to her doctors in Midland and all of her friends and family for their support and prayers.