Ann Ellen Armstrong Epler, of Houston, Texas, passed away peacefully in her sleep Friday, the 12th of May.
Ann was born on the 10th of December, 1938, in Clovis, New Mexico, to Arlo James Wainwright Armstrong and Thelma Ann Massey Armstrong. She was the granddaughter of James and Annie Hondrick Armstrong of Pioneer, Ness Co., Kansas, and of William E. and Nettie L. Gregory Massey of East Liverpool, Ohio.
Ann grew up in the Rio Grande Valley and graduated from Mission High School in Mission, Texas in 1957. That same year she enrolled in the University of Texas (U.T.) at Austin following open-heart surgery performed that summer by Dr. Denton Cooley. It was the first year of the availability of the heart-lung machine. The doctors cleared her to start university, and she arrived only 13 days after the other students. A Plan II graduate of U.T., Ann was very active on campus with various organizations such as the Orange Jackets, Spooks, Board Martyrs and her beloved Delta Delta Delta Fraternity. She specialized in human cell analysis and processing and attended one year of graduate school. She moved to Houston in 1962 where she researched cell analysis for M.D. Anderson Hospital. Not much later, she shared her love of science as a biology teacher at San Jacinto High School, one of Houston's first desegregated schools.
Ann married the love of her life, John L. Epler, Jr., in April of 1967. While raising her family, Ann continued to teach and volunteer. For many years, she taught at St. Francis Episcopal Day School, teaching Spanish and substituting in Math and Science, even serving on the School Board. She was loved and respected by her students and fellow faculty members. Being very active with St. Francis Episcopal Church as well, Ann taught Sunday School, Vacation Bible School and served on the Vestry. Ann continued her involvement in Delta Delta Delta long after her college career ended. She held multiple offices, including past President of the Houston Alumnae Chapter, and attained Golden Circle status after 50 years of membership, when her daughter, also a member of Delta Delta Delta, gave her the Golden Circle pin. She is a Houston Alumnae Panhellenic Association Cited Member (2004) for her continuous outstanding and unselfish service. Ann also found great joy in volunteering with the Blue Bird Circle, Daughters of the King and the P.E.O. Sisterhood, an organization she delighted in sharing with her daughter-in-law. Outside of her volunteer work and family life, Ann was an avid reader, needle-pointer and bridge player. She loved fishing, dove hunting and dancing. She had a great passion for both art and design, and in 1986, she and her daughter started Pasatiempos, their jewelry business, into which she later included her granddaughter. Ann's designs were shared at art shows and in galleries across Texas.
Beloved wife of over forty-five years to John L. Epler, Jr.; loving father to Alan and Melissa Epler of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Kenneth and Elizabeth Jones of Houston, Texas, she especially adored all her grandchildren: Austin and Allison Epler and Jack Jones.
Ann lived her life through faith, with a quiet grace and style and class. She loved everyone and never met a stranger. She will be missed by her entire family and her many friends. The family would also like to give our sincerest thanks to her wonderful caregivers for their devoted and unwavering care and affection as well as to all the doctors, nurses and staff at Methodist Medical ICU.
Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from six o'clock until eight o'clock in the evening on Friday, the 22nd of May, in the library and grand foyer of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
A funeral service is to be conducted at half-past ten o'clock in the morning on Saturday, the 23rd of May, at St. Francis Episcopal Church, 345 Piney Point Road in Houston, where the Rev. Murray R. Powell and the Rev. Richard E. Elwood are to officiate.
Immediately following, all are invited to greet the family during a reception to be held at a venue to be announced during the service.
At a later date, the family will gather for a private inurnment at Glenwood Cemetery in Houston.
In lieu of customary remembrances, memorial contributions may be directed to the American Heart Association Southwest Affiliate, P.O. Box 841125, Dallas, TX 75284; or to the Tri Delta Theta Zeta Foundation, 503 West 27th Street, Austin, TX 78705.
Published in Houston Chronicle from May 19 to May 21, 2015
Ann was born on the 10th of December, 1938, in Clovis, New Mexico, to Arlo James Wainwright Armstrong and Thelma Ann Massey Armstrong. She was the granddaughter of James and Annie Hondrick Armstrong of Pioneer, Ness Co., Kansas, and of William E. and Nettie L. Gregory Massey of East Liverpool, Ohio.
Ann grew up in the Rio Grande Valley and graduated from Mission High School in Mission, Texas in 1957. That same year she enrolled in the University of Texas (U.T.) at Austin following open-heart surgery performed that summer by Dr. Denton Cooley. It was the first year of the availability of the heart-lung machine. The doctors cleared her to start university, and she arrived only 13 days after the other students. A Plan II graduate of U.T., Ann was very active on campus with various organizations such as the Orange Jackets, Spooks, Board Martyrs and her beloved Delta Delta Delta Fraternity. She specialized in human cell analysis and processing and attended one year of graduate school. She moved to Houston in 1962 where she researched cell analysis for M.D. Anderson Hospital. Not much later, she shared her love of science as a biology teacher at San Jacinto High School, one of Houston's first desegregated schools.
Ann married the love of her life, John L. Epler, Jr., in April of 1967. While raising her family, Ann continued to teach and volunteer. For many years, she taught at St. Francis Episcopal Day School, teaching Spanish and substituting in Math and Science, even serving on the School Board. She was loved and respected by her students and fellow faculty members. Being very active with St. Francis Episcopal Church as well, Ann taught Sunday School, Vacation Bible School and served on the Vestry. Ann continued her involvement in Delta Delta Delta long after her college career ended. She held multiple offices, including past President of the Houston Alumnae Chapter, and attained Golden Circle status after 50 years of membership, when her daughter, also a member of Delta Delta Delta, gave her the Golden Circle pin. She is a Houston Alumnae Panhellenic Association Cited Member (2004) for her continuous outstanding and unselfish service. Ann also found great joy in volunteering with the Blue Bird Circle, Daughters of the King and the P.E.O. Sisterhood, an organization she delighted in sharing with her daughter-in-law. Outside of her volunteer work and family life, Ann was an avid reader, needle-pointer and bridge player. She loved fishing, dove hunting and dancing. She had a great passion for both art and design, and in 1986, she and her daughter started Pasatiempos, their jewelry business, into which she later included her granddaughter. Ann's designs were shared at art shows and in galleries across Texas.
Beloved wife of over forty-five years to John L. Epler, Jr.; loving father to Alan and Melissa Epler of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Kenneth and Elizabeth Jones of Houston, Texas, she especially adored all her grandchildren: Austin and Allison Epler and Jack Jones.
Ann lived her life through faith, with a quiet grace and style and class. She loved everyone and never met a stranger. She will be missed by her entire family and her many friends. The family would also like to give our sincerest thanks to her wonderful caregivers for their devoted and unwavering care and affection as well as to all the doctors, nurses and staff at Methodist Medical ICU.
Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from six o'clock until eight o'clock in the evening on Friday, the 22nd of May, in the library and grand foyer of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
A funeral service is to be conducted at half-past ten o'clock in the morning on Saturday, the 23rd of May, at St. Francis Episcopal Church, 345 Piney Point Road in Houston, where the Rev. Murray R. Powell and the Rev. Richard E. Elwood are to officiate.
Immediately following, all are invited to greet the family during a reception to be held at a venue to be announced during the service.
At a later date, the family will gather for a private inurnment at Glenwood Cemetery in Houston.
In lieu of customary remembrances, memorial contributions may be directed to the American Heart Association Southwest Affiliate, P.O. Box 841125, Dallas, TX 75284; or to the Tri Delta Theta Zeta Foundation, 503 West 27th Street, Austin, TX 78705.
Published in Houston Chronicle from May 19 to May 21, 2015
Ann Ellen Armstrong Epler, of Houston, Texas, passed away peacefully in her sleep Friday, the 12th of May.
Ann was born on the 10th of December, 1938, in Clovis, New Mexico, to Arlo James Wainwright Armstrong and Thelma Ann Massey Armstrong. She was the granddaughter of James and Annie Hondrick Armstrong of Pioneer, Ness Co., Kansas, and of William E. and Nettie L. Gregory Massey of East Liverpool, Ohio.
Ann grew up in the Rio Grande Valley and graduated from Mission High School in Mission, Texas in 1957. That same year she enrolled in the University of Texas (U.T.) at Austin following open-heart surgery performed that summer by Dr. Denton Cooley. It was the first year of the availability of the heart-lung machine. The doctors cleared her to start university, and she arrived only 13 days after the other students. A Plan II graduate of U.T., Ann was very active on campus with various organizations such as the Orange Jackets, Spooks, Board Martyrs and her beloved Delta Delta Delta Fraternity. She specialized in human cell analysis and processing and attended one year of graduate school. She moved to Houston in 1962 where she researched cell analysis for M.D. Anderson Hospital. Not much later, she shared her love of science as a biology teacher at San Jacinto High School, one of Houston's first desegregated schools.
Ann married the love of her life, John L. Epler, Jr., in April of 1967. While raising her family, Ann continued to teach and volunteer. For many years, she taught at St. Francis Episcopal Day School, teaching Spanish and substituting in Math and Science, even serving on the School Board. She was loved and respected by her students and fellow faculty members. Being very active with St. Francis Episcopal Church as well, Ann taught Sunday School, Vacation Bible School and served on the Vestry. Ann continued her involvement in Delta Delta Delta long after her college career ended. She held multiple offices, including past President of the Houston Alumnae Chapter, and attained Golden Circle status after 50 years of membership, when her daughter, also a member of Delta Delta Delta, gave her the Golden Circle pin. She is a Houston Alumnae Panhellenic Association Cited Member (2004) for her continuous outstanding and unselfish service. Ann also found great joy in volunteering with the Blue Bird Circle, Daughters of the King and the P.E.O. Sisterhood, an organization she delighted in sharing with her daughter-in-law. Outside of her volunteer work and family life, Ann was an avid reader, needle-pointer and bridge player. She loved fishing, dove hunting and dancing. She had a great passion for both art and design, and in 1986, she and her daughter started Pasatiempos, their jewelry business, into which she later included her granddaughter. Ann's designs were shared at art shows and in galleries across Texas.
Beloved wife of over forty-five years to John L. Epler, Jr.; loving father to Alan and Melissa Epler of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Kenneth and Elizabeth Jones of Houston, Texas, she especially adored all her grandchildren: Austin and Allison Epler and Jack Jones.
Ann lived her life through faith, with a quiet grace and style and class. She loved everyone and never met a stranger. She will be missed by her entire family and her many friends. The family would also like to give our sincerest thanks to her wonderful caregivers for their devoted and unwavering care and affection as well as to all the doctors, nurses and staff at Methodist Medical ICU.
Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from six o'clock until eight o'clock in the evening on Friday, the 22nd of May, in the library and grand foyer of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
A funeral service is to be conducted at half-past ten o'clock in the morning on Saturday, the 23rd of May, at St. Francis Episcopal Church, 345 Piney Point Road in Houston, where the Rev. Murray R. Powell and the Rev. Richard E. Elwood are to officiate.
Immediately following, all are invited to greet the family during a reception to be held at a venue to be announced during the service.
At a later date, the family will gather for a private inurnment at Glenwood Cemetery in Houston.
In lieu of customary remembrances, memorial contributions may be directed to the American Heart Association Southwest Affiliate, P.O. Box 841125, Dallas, TX 75284; or to the Tri Delta Theta Zeta Foundation, 503 West 27th Street, Austin, TX 78705.
Published in Houston Chronicle from May 19 to May 21, 2015
Ann was born on the 10th of December, 1938, in Clovis, New Mexico, to Arlo James Wainwright Armstrong and Thelma Ann Massey Armstrong. She was the granddaughter of James and Annie Hondrick Armstrong of Pioneer, Ness Co., Kansas, and of William E. and Nettie L. Gregory Massey of East Liverpool, Ohio.
Ann grew up in the Rio Grande Valley and graduated from Mission High School in Mission, Texas in 1957. That same year she enrolled in the University of Texas (U.T.) at Austin following open-heart surgery performed that summer by Dr. Denton Cooley. It was the first year of the availability of the heart-lung machine. The doctors cleared her to start university, and she arrived only 13 days after the other students. A Plan II graduate of U.T., Ann was very active on campus with various organizations such as the Orange Jackets, Spooks, Board Martyrs and her beloved Delta Delta Delta Fraternity. She specialized in human cell analysis and processing and attended one year of graduate school. She moved to Houston in 1962 where she researched cell analysis for M.D. Anderson Hospital. Not much later, she shared her love of science as a biology teacher at San Jacinto High School, one of Houston's first desegregated schools.
Ann married the love of her life, John L. Epler, Jr., in April of 1967. While raising her family, Ann continued to teach and volunteer. For many years, she taught at St. Francis Episcopal Day School, teaching Spanish and substituting in Math and Science, even serving on the School Board. She was loved and respected by her students and fellow faculty members. Being very active with St. Francis Episcopal Church as well, Ann taught Sunday School, Vacation Bible School and served on the Vestry. Ann continued her involvement in Delta Delta Delta long after her college career ended. She held multiple offices, including past President of the Houston Alumnae Chapter, and attained Golden Circle status after 50 years of membership, when her daughter, also a member of Delta Delta Delta, gave her the Golden Circle pin. She is a Houston Alumnae Panhellenic Association Cited Member (2004) for her continuous outstanding and unselfish service. Ann also found great joy in volunteering with the Blue Bird Circle, Daughters of the King and the P.E.O. Sisterhood, an organization she delighted in sharing with her daughter-in-law. Outside of her volunteer work and family life, Ann was an avid reader, needle-pointer and bridge player. She loved fishing, dove hunting and dancing. She had a great passion for both art and design, and in 1986, she and her daughter started Pasatiempos, their jewelry business, into which she later included her granddaughter. Ann's designs were shared at art shows and in galleries across Texas.
Beloved wife of over forty-five years to John L. Epler, Jr.; loving father to Alan and Melissa Epler of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Kenneth and Elizabeth Jones of Houston, Texas, she especially adored all her grandchildren: Austin and Allison Epler and Jack Jones.
Ann lived her life through faith, with a quiet grace and style and class. She loved everyone and never met a stranger. She will be missed by her entire family and her many friends. The family would also like to give our sincerest thanks to her wonderful caregivers for their devoted and unwavering care and affection as well as to all the doctors, nurses and staff at Methodist Medical ICU.
Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from six o'clock until eight o'clock in the evening on Friday, the 22nd of May, in the library and grand foyer of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
A funeral service is to be conducted at half-past ten o'clock in the morning on Saturday, the 23rd of May, at St. Francis Episcopal Church, 345 Piney Point Road in Houston, where the Rev. Murray R. Powell and the Rev. Richard E. Elwood are to officiate.
Immediately following, all are invited to greet the family during a reception to be held at a venue to be announced during the service.
At a later date, the family will gather for a private inurnment at Glenwood Cemetery in Houston.
In lieu of customary remembrances, memorial contributions may be directed to the American Heart Association Southwest Affiliate, P.O. Box 841125, Dallas, TX 75284; or to the Tri Delta Theta Zeta Foundation, 503 West 27th Street, Austin, TX 78705.
Published in Houston Chronicle from May 19 to May 21, 2015
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