McMinnville resident and Warren County native Jesse Newton Fitts, 96, was born Feb. 26, 1920 and died Sept. 4 at Saint Thomas River Park following an extended illness. Jesse was the last surviving child of the late Samuel Walker Fitts and Ethel Rosetta Hendrickson Fitts. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by brothers, Jasper, George, twin brother Less, Roy, Hoyte and Kenneth Fitts and Justin Johnson; sisters Alene Fitts Moore, Alta Mae Fitts Sain Dickens, Louvernia Fitts Reed Dobbs and Mary Fitts Griffith; and son-in-law, Robert “Bob” Woodard.