Janet Amason, third of six siblings, was named Mary Janet when born Dec. 2, 1916, in Palestine, Texas, to the marriage of Bessie Lee Gossett and Lee Anderson Amason. On May 2, 2009, she was the fifth sibling to rejoin her family in their Heavenly Home.
Preceded in death by siblings, Maxalee Amason, Helen Amason Ferguson, George Amason and Betty Joe Amason, and her parents, Janet is survived by a brother J. Amason and wife EJ, nephew Lee Amason and wife Judy, all of Kerrville; nieces, Lynda Amason Underwood and Michelle Amason of Palestine; nieces, Kay Ferguson Donaho and husband Joe of Germantown, Tenn. and Peggy Ferguson Siegel of Point Blank, Texas; two more nephews, several next generations and several first cousins.
She graduated from Palestine High School, Nixon Business College, Little Jolly School of Nursing at Memorial Hospital in Houston and the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. She also graduated from several areas of advanced training while associated for 24 years with the United States Army as a nurse during World War II and the Korean Conflict. Five of her assignments were in San Antonio, where her last position was that of neuropsychiatric head nurse at Brooke Army Medical Center. Military nursing assignments elsewhere, often as head nurse, included medical orthopedic, surgical and OB-GYN.
Major Amason who began her military career as a Red Cross nurse in October 1941, retired from the Army in 1967. She returned to Palestine where she resided for the next 16 years. She was actively involved with Grace United Methodist Church of which her maternal grandfather Thomas Adolfus Gossett was a charter member. There she taught Sunday school (her mother’s class), sang in the choir, was co-chairman (with her sister Helen) of the Building Committee when the church was renovated, and participated with the church’s “quilting” ladies. Janet also ran the thrift shop of Associated Charities and volunteered her services to other non-profit organizations.
In 1983, she moved to Point Blank, Texas, where she continued her volunteer work in affiliation with the Coldspring Area Community Library as well as driving 176 miles round-trip every Thursday to be with her Grace UMC quilting ladies. Janet moved to Kerrville in 1997. In recent years, she relied on services available from Dietert Senior Center to enable her independent living.
Janet continued her service to others by providing her body for medical research at the University of Texas in San Antonio, Texas.
A memorial service to celebrate this life of service will be held May 17, 2009 at Kerrville United Methodist Church.
Preceded in death by siblings, Maxalee Amason, Helen Amason Ferguson, George Amason and Betty Joe Amason, and her parents, Janet is survived by a brother J. Amason and wife EJ, nephew Lee Amason and wife Judy, all of Kerrville; nieces, Lynda Amason Underwood and Michelle Amason of Palestine; nieces, Kay Ferguson Donaho and husband Joe of Germantown, Tenn. and Peggy Ferguson Siegel of Point Blank, Texas; two more nephews, several next generations and several first cousins.
She graduated from Palestine High School, Nixon Business College, Little Jolly School of Nursing at Memorial Hospital in Houston and the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. She also graduated from several areas of advanced training while associated for 24 years with the United States Army as a nurse during World War II and the Korean Conflict. Five of her assignments were in San Antonio, where her last position was that of neuropsychiatric head nurse at Brooke Army Medical Center. Military nursing assignments elsewhere, often as head nurse, included medical orthopedic, surgical and OB-GYN.
Major Amason who began her military career as a Red Cross nurse in October 1941, retired from the Army in 1967. She returned to Palestine where she resided for the next 16 years. She was actively involved with Grace United Methodist Church of which her maternal grandfather Thomas Adolfus Gossett was a charter member. There she taught Sunday school (her mother’s class), sang in the choir, was co-chairman (with her sister Helen) of the Building Committee when the church was renovated, and participated with the church’s “quilting” ladies. Janet also ran the thrift shop of Associated Charities and volunteered her services to other non-profit organizations.
In 1983, she moved to Point Blank, Texas, where she continued her volunteer work in affiliation with the Coldspring Area Community Library as well as driving 176 miles round-trip every Thursday to be with her Grace UMC quilting ladies. Janet moved to Kerrville in 1997. In recent years, she relied on services available from Dietert Senior Center to enable her independent living.
Janet continued her service to others by providing her body for medical research at the University of Texas in San Antonio, Texas.
A memorial service to celebrate this life of service will be held May 17, 2009 at Kerrville United Methodist Church.
Janet Amason, third of six siblings, was named Mary Janet when born Dec. 2, 1916, in Palestine, Texas, to the marriage of Bessie Lee Gossett and Lee Anderson Amason. On May 2, 2009, she was the fifth sibling to rejoin her family in their Heavenly Home.
Preceded in death by siblings, Maxalee Amason, Helen Amason Ferguson, George Amason and Betty Joe Amason, and her parents, Janet is survived by a brother J. Amason and wife EJ, nephew Lee Amason and wife Judy, all of Kerrville; nieces, Lynda Amason Underwood and Michelle Amason of Palestine; nieces, Kay Ferguson Donaho and husband Joe of Germantown, Tenn. and Peggy Ferguson Siegel of Point Blank, Texas; two more nephews, several next generations and several first cousins.
She graduated from Palestine High School, Nixon Business College, Little Jolly School of Nursing at Memorial Hospital in Houston and the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. She also graduated from several areas of advanced training while associated for 24 years with the United States Army as a nurse during World War II and the Korean Conflict. Five of her assignments were in San Antonio, where her last position was that of neuropsychiatric head nurse at Brooke Army Medical Center. Military nursing assignments elsewhere, often as head nurse, included medical orthopedic, surgical and OB-GYN.
Major Amason who began her military career as a Red Cross nurse in October 1941, retired from the Army in 1967. She returned to Palestine where she resided for the next 16 years. She was actively involved with Grace United Methodist Church of which her maternal grandfather Thomas Adolfus Gossett was a charter member. There she taught Sunday school (her mother’s class), sang in the choir, was co-chairman (with her sister Helen) of the Building Committee when the church was renovated, and participated with the church’s “quilting” ladies. Janet also ran the thrift shop of Associated Charities and volunteered her services to other non-profit organizations.
In 1983, she moved to Point Blank, Texas, where she continued her volunteer work in affiliation with the Coldspring Area Community Library as well as driving 176 miles round-trip every Thursday to be with her Grace UMC quilting ladies. Janet moved to Kerrville in 1997. In recent years, she relied on services available from Dietert Senior Center to enable her independent living.
Janet continued her service to others by providing her body for medical research at the University of Texas in San Antonio, Texas.
A memorial service to celebrate this life of service will be held May 17, 2009 at Kerrville United Methodist Church.
Preceded in death by siblings, Maxalee Amason, Helen Amason Ferguson, George Amason and Betty Joe Amason, and her parents, Janet is survived by a brother J. Amason and wife EJ, nephew Lee Amason and wife Judy, all of Kerrville; nieces, Lynda Amason Underwood and Michelle Amason of Palestine; nieces, Kay Ferguson Donaho and husband Joe of Germantown, Tenn. and Peggy Ferguson Siegel of Point Blank, Texas; two more nephews, several next generations and several first cousins.
She graduated from Palestine High School, Nixon Business College, Little Jolly School of Nursing at Memorial Hospital in Houston and the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. She also graduated from several areas of advanced training while associated for 24 years with the United States Army as a nurse during World War II and the Korean Conflict. Five of her assignments were in San Antonio, where her last position was that of neuropsychiatric head nurse at Brooke Army Medical Center. Military nursing assignments elsewhere, often as head nurse, included medical orthopedic, surgical and OB-GYN.
Major Amason who began her military career as a Red Cross nurse in October 1941, retired from the Army in 1967. She returned to Palestine where she resided for the next 16 years. She was actively involved with Grace United Methodist Church of which her maternal grandfather Thomas Adolfus Gossett was a charter member. There she taught Sunday school (her mother’s class), sang in the choir, was co-chairman (with her sister Helen) of the Building Committee when the church was renovated, and participated with the church’s “quilting” ladies. Janet also ran the thrift shop of Associated Charities and volunteered her services to other non-profit organizations.
In 1983, she moved to Point Blank, Texas, where she continued her volunteer work in affiliation with the Coldspring Area Community Library as well as driving 176 miles round-trip every Thursday to be with her Grace UMC quilting ladies. Janet moved to Kerrville in 1997. In recent years, she relied on services available from Dietert Senior Center to enable her independent living.
Janet continued her service to others by providing her body for medical research at the University of Texas in San Antonio, Texas.
A memorial service to celebrate this life of service will be held May 17, 2009 at Kerrville United Methodist Church.
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