MARFA — Jane Brite White returned to her Heavenly Father on April 3, 2010, in Lubbock. She was 83.
A memorial service at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 10, at First Christian Church of Marfa will be celebrated by Tommy Potter of Texas Christian University's Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth. Ellen Cross will provide musical inspiration. A private family burial will be in the Marfa Cemetery.
On May 24, 1926, in New Haven, Conn., Hester Brite and Donald Ross Dunkle were blessed with the arrival of a brown-eyed baby girl. Initially, she was named Eleanor Hester, but after a few months her father renamed her Jane Brite.
As the daughter of U.S. Army Cavalry officer, Jane attended various schools including Cincinnati, El Paso, Fort Riley and Holton Arms before returning to live with her grandmother, Edward McMinn Anderson Brite in Marfa, where she graduated from high school. After one year at Texas Christian University, she transferred to the University of Texas. She served as president of Kappa Kappa Gamma, was a Bluebonnet Belle, and studied geology and zoology before graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1945.
Learning was a lifelong passion, which she loved to share. In that spirit, Jane served on the Board of Education for Marfa ISD for nine years. Her love for the Christian Church and Bloys Camp Meeting were constant.
Jane married James E. White Jr. in Marfa on Sept. 5, 1946. Their first home was Hacienda Mesquite in southern Presidio County. Since 1953, Jane and Jim had made their home in Marfa and on the ranch where they built upon both families' traditions of ranching.
Her husband of almost 63 years and their four children celebrate Jane's life as they mourn her leave-taking. Survivors include daughter Hester Ann White of Marfa; sons James Morgan, Robert Brite and Beauregard McMinn Tyler of Manchaca and Austin; son James E. White III and wife Karen Bailey, whose children are Clinton Wesley White of Marfa, Marti Shea and husband Curtis Wright of Bastrop, and their children Shea Wayne and Seth Allen, Raphael Jarron White of Austin and James E. White IV of Marfa; son Beauregard Brite White and wife Kathleen Hartnett of Rosanky; son Edward McMinn White and wife Julie Bryan of Marfa. Other survivors include Jane's beloved sister-in-law, Virginia Mae "Aunt Gene" White Frank Boland of Del Rio; and siblings Nancy Anne Dunkle Roderick Cooper Lynch of El Paso and Michael Ross Dunkle of Redondo Beach, Calif.
The family requests that memorial gifts be made the Bloys Camp Meeting Association, in care of Bill Miller, Box 56, Valentine, TX 79854.
A memorial service at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 10, at First Christian Church of Marfa will be celebrated by Tommy Potter of Texas Christian University's Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth. Ellen Cross will provide musical inspiration. A private family burial will be in the Marfa Cemetery.
On May 24, 1926, in New Haven, Conn., Hester Brite and Donald Ross Dunkle were blessed with the arrival of a brown-eyed baby girl. Initially, she was named Eleanor Hester, but after a few months her father renamed her Jane Brite.
As the daughter of U.S. Army Cavalry officer, Jane attended various schools including Cincinnati, El Paso, Fort Riley and Holton Arms before returning to live with her grandmother, Edward McMinn Anderson Brite in Marfa, where she graduated from high school. After one year at Texas Christian University, she transferred to the University of Texas. She served as president of Kappa Kappa Gamma, was a Bluebonnet Belle, and studied geology and zoology before graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1945.
Learning was a lifelong passion, which she loved to share. In that spirit, Jane served on the Board of Education for Marfa ISD for nine years. Her love for the Christian Church and Bloys Camp Meeting were constant.
Jane married James E. White Jr. in Marfa on Sept. 5, 1946. Their first home was Hacienda Mesquite in southern Presidio County. Since 1953, Jane and Jim had made their home in Marfa and on the ranch where they built upon both families' traditions of ranching.
Her husband of almost 63 years and their four children celebrate Jane's life as they mourn her leave-taking. Survivors include daughter Hester Ann White of Marfa; sons James Morgan, Robert Brite and Beauregard McMinn Tyler of Manchaca and Austin; son James E. White III and wife Karen Bailey, whose children are Clinton Wesley White of Marfa, Marti Shea and husband Curtis Wright of Bastrop, and their children Shea Wayne and Seth Allen, Raphael Jarron White of Austin and James E. White IV of Marfa; son Beauregard Brite White and wife Kathleen Hartnett of Rosanky; son Edward McMinn White and wife Julie Bryan of Marfa. Other survivors include Jane's beloved sister-in-law, Virginia Mae "Aunt Gene" White Frank Boland of Del Rio; and siblings Nancy Anne Dunkle Roderick Cooper Lynch of El Paso and Michael Ross Dunkle of Redondo Beach, Calif.
The family requests that memorial gifts be made the Bloys Camp Meeting Association, in care of Bill Miller, Box 56, Valentine, TX 79854.
MARFA — Jane Brite White returned to her Heavenly Father on April 3, 2010, in Lubbock. She was 83.
A memorial service at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 10, at First Christian Church of Marfa will be celebrated by Tommy Potter of Texas Christian University's Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth. Ellen Cross will provide musical inspiration. A private family burial will be in the Marfa Cemetery.
On May 24, 1926, in New Haven, Conn., Hester Brite and Donald Ross Dunkle were blessed with the arrival of a brown-eyed baby girl. Initially, she was named Eleanor Hester, but after a few months her father renamed her Jane Brite.
As the daughter of U.S. Army Cavalry officer, Jane attended various schools including Cincinnati, El Paso, Fort Riley and Holton Arms before returning to live with her grandmother, Edward McMinn Anderson Brite in Marfa, where she graduated from high school. After one year at Texas Christian University, she transferred to the University of Texas. She served as president of Kappa Kappa Gamma, was a Bluebonnet Belle, and studied geology and zoology before graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1945.
Learning was a lifelong passion, which she loved to share. In that spirit, Jane served on the Board of Education for Marfa ISD for nine years. Her love for the Christian Church and Bloys Camp Meeting were constant.
Jane married James E. White Jr. in Marfa on Sept. 5, 1946. Their first home was Hacienda Mesquite in southern Presidio County. Since 1953, Jane and Jim had made their home in Marfa and on the ranch where they built upon both families' traditions of ranching.
Her husband of almost 63 years and their four children celebrate Jane's life as they mourn her leave-taking. Survivors include daughter Hester Ann White of Marfa; sons James Morgan, Robert Brite and Beauregard McMinn Tyler of Manchaca and Austin; son James E. White III and wife Karen Bailey, whose children are Clinton Wesley White of Marfa, Marti Shea and husband Curtis Wright of Bastrop, and their children Shea Wayne and Seth Allen, Raphael Jarron White of Austin and James E. White IV of Marfa; son Beauregard Brite White and wife Kathleen Hartnett of Rosanky; son Edward McMinn White and wife Julie Bryan of Marfa. Other survivors include Jane's beloved sister-in-law, Virginia Mae "Aunt Gene" White Frank Boland of Del Rio; and siblings Nancy Anne Dunkle Roderick Cooper Lynch of El Paso and Michael Ross Dunkle of Redondo Beach, Calif.
The family requests that memorial gifts be made the Bloys Camp Meeting Association, in care of Bill Miller, Box 56, Valentine, TX 79854.
A memorial service at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 10, at First Christian Church of Marfa will be celebrated by Tommy Potter of Texas Christian University's Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth. Ellen Cross will provide musical inspiration. A private family burial will be in the Marfa Cemetery.
On May 24, 1926, in New Haven, Conn., Hester Brite and Donald Ross Dunkle were blessed with the arrival of a brown-eyed baby girl. Initially, she was named Eleanor Hester, but after a few months her father renamed her Jane Brite.
As the daughter of U.S. Army Cavalry officer, Jane attended various schools including Cincinnati, El Paso, Fort Riley and Holton Arms before returning to live with her grandmother, Edward McMinn Anderson Brite in Marfa, where she graduated from high school. After one year at Texas Christian University, she transferred to the University of Texas. She served as president of Kappa Kappa Gamma, was a Bluebonnet Belle, and studied geology and zoology before graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1945.
Learning was a lifelong passion, which she loved to share. In that spirit, Jane served on the Board of Education for Marfa ISD for nine years. Her love for the Christian Church and Bloys Camp Meeting were constant.
Jane married James E. White Jr. in Marfa on Sept. 5, 1946. Their first home was Hacienda Mesquite in southern Presidio County. Since 1953, Jane and Jim had made their home in Marfa and on the ranch where they built upon both families' traditions of ranching.
Her husband of almost 63 years and their four children celebrate Jane's life as they mourn her leave-taking. Survivors include daughter Hester Ann White of Marfa; sons James Morgan, Robert Brite and Beauregard McMinn Tyler of Manchaca and Austin; son James E. White III and wife Karen Bailey, whose children are Clinton Wesley White of Marfa, Marti Shea and husband Curtis Wright of Bastrop, and their children Shea Wayne and Seth Allen, Raphael Jarron White of Austin and James E. White IV of Marfa; son Beauregard Brite White and wife Kathleen Hartnett of Rosanky; son Edward McMinn White and wife Julie Bryan of Marfa. Other survivors include Jane's beloved sister-in-law, Virginia Mae "Aunt Gene" White Frank Boland of Del Rio; and siblings Nancy Anne Dunkle Roderick Cooper Lynch of El Paso and Michael Ross Dunkle of Redondo Beach, Calif.
The family requests that memorial gifts be made the Bloys Camp Meeting Association, in care of Bill Miller, Box 56, Valentine, TX 79854.
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