James "Jim" Whitley

CROWLEY– James “Jim” Hamilton Whitley loving husband, father, Papa, brother and friend passed away February 6, 2014. Funeral: 3 p.m. Tuesday at Mayfield Kiser Funeral Home in Burleson. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Jim was born October 20, 1958, in Carrollton, Texas to JoAnne Simmons and Joseph Whitley.  He started teaching at Dunbar Middle School as a woodshop teacher and later started teaching in the Technology Lab. In 1999, Jim moved to Arlington Heights High School where he taught in technology lab and coached softball until he retired in 2013. Jim loved to fish, spend time with his family, make pens, hunt, cook and entertain friends. Jim can best be remembered as a fun loving jokester who might ask you to pull his finger. You could always find Jim in the garage making pens or rigging up something, working on his boat in the driveway, cooking a brisket on the smoker or out on the water with his son and dad. He was preceded in death by his mother. Survivors: Wife and best friend for 18 years, Misty; Father Joseph Whitley and wife Candy; Son, Jonathon and wife Stefanie; Daughters Megan Dixon and husband Chris, and Katlyn Whitley; three grandchildren, Bailey and Kaylee Whitley and Tucker Dixon; Sister, Janet Clevenger.