Jineal Ricks Jack was born June 30, 1982, San Diego, Calif. To Michael Ricks and Debra Neal Ricks. She attended St. Stephens Christian School from pre-school through the eighth grade, then Monte vista High School. Jineal attended California State University of Long Beach and received her degree in Criminal Justice. She accepted Christ as her Lord and savior at 10 years old and was baptized by Rev. Joseph Foxworth, Sr. at the Pilgrim Progressive Baptist church where she was in the Youth Choir, Sunday School, and Hospitality, from age 6 on, welcoming visitors every 2nd Sunday. One of her church members, Boris McDaniels, invited her to join Adam Henderson’s Martin Luther King Blasters where she loved learning to do hurdles under Coach Stewart Payne. She ran hurdles for Monte Vista, but wanted nothing to do with track and field in college. She had many high school friends, they were the “Shorty Crew” – Tinicia, Kameelah, Cherie, and Jineal, lifelong friends. Jineal was a great friend and confidant, who gave advice and could be trusted with your secrets. After graduating Cal State Long Beach, she decided to move to Las Vegas, NV, to work for Parole and Probation then one of the recruiters talked her into switching to Highway Patrol, becoming the first and only Black Female State Trooper in the State of Nevada. Jineal loved her job, in spite of the many obstacles. Working there is how she met her very best friend Angelina Brosingham Lewis. She met Kemar Jack, fell in love and they got married. She loved to travel, visiting almost every state, with her grandmother, (gathering coffee cups for grandfather). She loved decorating; turning Kylan’s area under the stairs into a perfect hideaway, which was so remarkable and quite pretty. She was a wonderful Mom and had a special relationship with each child. She leaves to cherish precious memories her sons, Jorion and Kelton, daughter Kylan, father Michael Ricks (Debra), mother Debra Neal, devoted, loving grandparents Patrick and Lillian Schilling, brothers Kiseme and Michael, Aunts Barbara, Paula, Delores, Lynda, Tina, Allison, Rajean, Tammy, Tia, Uncles, Ernest, Williams, Herman, Lee, James, Mike, Dennis, Brian, and Daryl, and many cousins with one very Special Sister/Cousin “Danica Ricks,” and many friends.
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