Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 115, No. 71, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 4, 1997 Page: 3 of 50
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THE POLK COUNTY ENTLRPRI.sK, THURSDAY, SLPi KMBLR 4, IW7 . PA<;K 3A
^New TDCJ security deputy director
Corrigan native promoted 6
• HUNTSVILLE ~ Janie M.
Cockrell, a native of Corrigan, has
As deputy for security, Cockrell
has the responsibility for the over-
all operations of 23,000 correc-
tional officers guarding 114,400
inmates in 81 Institutional
Division prisons. TDCJ also has1
7,000 correctional officers and
__________,__ 24,100 inmates in 24 State Jail
SKaystem, was already the state's Division facilities.
^Ughest-ranking woman official as Cockrell's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Kdepoty diiecSor for support services. Eugene Cockrell, reside in
tvShe was appointed to her new posi- Corrigan.
$\tion by TDCJ Institutional She joined the former Texas
^Division Director Gary Johnson to Department of Corrections in 1976
v succeed Jerry Peterson, who retired is a correctional officer at the then-
T-Clast month after a 28-year career. female Gone Unit in Huntsville
"Janie brings to the job a valu- while attending Sam Houston State
v able yectrum of experience and a University, where she received a
^proven record of leadership accom- bachelor of science degree in crimi-
xof Criminal Justice Institutional
^Division deputy director for secu-
^ The 21-year veteran, who came
through the ranks of the prison
^kystem, was already the state's
-ranking woman official as
In 1981 she moved to prison so-
cial services, becoming regional
coordinator for social services and
special needs offenders and, in
1984, she was promoted to assis-
I
ptisnments, Johnson sue.
. oology and corrections.
She was promoted to assistant
warden at the Gatesville unit in
198S, to senior warden at the
Powledge Unit in Palestine in 1990
and to senior warden at the Beto I
Unit at Tennessee Colony in 1991.
In 1994 Cockrell became regional
director with responsibility for all
prisons in the
Gatesville/Palestine/Central Texas
areas, followed by her promotion in
1996 to deputy director for support
services of the Institutional
Division.
Peace officers to host Clower
KICK-OFF!
■SALE
*
LIVINGSTON - The Polk
County Peace Officers Association
will host an evening with humorist
Jerry Clower Oct. 18, in the
Livingston High School audito-
!'r
Officers will be on hand from 10
ajn. until 3 p.m. this Saturday at
Brookshire Bros, stores in
Livingston and Corrigan and at
Boles Supermarket in Onalaska to
sell tickets. Tickets are also Avail-
able from any pence officer associa-
tion member, the sheriffs depart-
ment, county judge's office and dis-
trict attorney's office.
Regular admission is $10, with
front row seats costing $20.
Proceeds will benefit the Polk
County Peace Officers Association.
Showtime is 7 pm.
Clower, a star on the Grand Ole
Opry, has made guest appearances
;J on top shows in television and n-
;> dio, and requests pour in for en-
!*, gagements as speaker and profes-
! * ahmal entertainer.
j5 He tells stories - the real thing,
; not canned - of life in Amite
j County, Miss., carrying the audi-
, ence along with him on that coon
J; hunt or into that classroom. The
■. locate may be regional, but the
•' humor is universal.
His mother says he was always
;; talking. It's as natural for Clower to
fr toll a story as it is for a politician
• * to make a promise.
dower’s growing up was typical
of country boys all over America.
He loved sports and with his
:> friends, sat glued to the battery ra-
il dio listening to ball games. His fa-
ll vorite food was french fries with
|l molasses, but home-raised groceries
;1 included hog meat, biscuits,
:• chicken, sweet potatoes -- he says,
1; don't knock it if you've never
. played tackle in the line.
Jerry and an older brother, Bill
. (Sonny), shared the chores. Jerry did
... the milking and tended to the cattle
and took his turn building the fire
each morning - one in ihe summer-
time (in the kitchen stove) and two
in the winter.
The fertile imagination received
early cultivation. He and his friends
were resourceful at developing their
own entertainment. A Saturday af-
ternoon when they were not work-
ing would find them in a pasture
having a rodeo, which meant round-
ing up a bunch of calves and riding
them. Or down at the creek playing
gator. Or Tarzan. Or they might go
coon hunting or rabbit hunting.
They didn't sit around waiting for a
recreation director to come and or-
ganize a game.
Clower finished high school one
night and joined the Navy the next
Afterwards, he got his college edu-
cation at Southwest Mississippi
Junior College and Mississippi
State University, where he resumed
his love affair with sports and
played football. Since that time the
romance continues, with Clower as
spectator, booster, active alumnus,
president of the Touchdown Club
and Youth Baseball /and the loud-
est-mouthed parent in the stands.
Receiving his degree in agricul-
ture, Clower was an assistant
county agent for a couple of years.
Then, maintaining his close ties
with the soil, he began selling fer-
tilizer to farmers. The most unique
crop from that fertilizer peddling
was a whole new career for Clower
himself.
To improve the selling he began
the telling. The audience response
was so great that a record album
was inevitable. Through the sug-
gestion and help of friends who saw
the potential entertainer in this
strapping salesman, the first album
was produced, "Jerry Clower from
Yazoo City, Mississippi, Talkin'."
A second album followed and his
career gathered momentum. Today,
he is one of the leading album sell-
ers for MCA records, with 12
records.
When Clower was old enough to
hold up his head and focus his eyes,
he fastened them on Homerline
Wells, a girl who lived just a mile
away. They went to school together
from the third grade and later mar-
ried. They have four children.
His strong religious belief under-
girds everything he does. For msny
years his efforts have benefited the
Gideon cause, and he serves as dea-
con in the First Baptist Church of
Yazoo City, Miss. As a lay
preacher, he responds to many re-
quests for talks in that capacity.
Clower has been named "Country
Comic of the Year" for nine con-
secutive years, co-hosted a nation-
ally-syndicated TV show, wrote
three top-selling books and cur-
rently *#eirs in fo^FTv com-
mercials.
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White, Barbara. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 115, No. 71, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 4, 1997, newspaper, September 4, 1997; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth798053/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.