Billie Jean (Knight) Anderson

Billie Jean was born April 27, 1929 to John Ralph Knight and Frances Irene Russell Knight in Whitney, Texas. She moved to Pasadena, Texas at the age of 11 and attended Jackson Junior High and Pasadena High School. She graduated class of 1946 before going on to college to receive her BBA. She worked for the University of Houston as a secretary until 1953 to become a stay-at-home mom until 1956 when she returned to work substituting for the Pasadena Independent School District until 1965 when she began teaching at Sam Rayburn High School until her retirement in 1990.

Billie Jean had a passion for her family, researching her genealogy and anyone else who asked, reading romance novels, and watching games shows - never missing an episode of Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune. But her real passion was traveling the world with her teacher friends and family. Billie Jean traveled to every continent and visited places many will only dream of. She instilled the love of adventure into many who loved her!

Billie Jean was preceded in death by her husband of 40 years Carl Thomas Anderson, her parents John and Frances Knight, her brother Johnnie Russell Knight, and grandson in-law Anthony Jermaine Pryor. She is survived by her children Tom Anderson and wife Lorraine, Carla Walthall and husband David, Alan Anderson and wife Bernadette “Bernie”, grandchildren Julie Pryor, Linsey Peschke and husband Chad, Michael, Katherine and Tommy Anderson, Michael Foster and wife Theresa, great grandchildren, Anson Pryor, Boone, Brenna and Bowen Peschke, Andrew, Mackenzie, Kolin and Nicholas Foster and a host of cousins, nieces, nephews, and friends.

The family would like to give a big shout out to Billie Jeans caretakers, Ann Smith, Theresa Foster, Linda Magdaleno, Jenny Robalino, Katrina Phillips, Jayde Kittleston, Cathy Lee, and Erika Tienda who worked tirelessly to make her life complete until the end, and to Texas Home Health Hospice, especially her nurse Sharrise Cotton, who always treated her with dignity and respect. Sharrise, there was never a visit she dreaded, because you always made your visits loving, fun and entertaining.

A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, May 22, 2021, 10:00 am at Grand View Funeral Home, 8501 Spencer Highway, Pasadena, Texas 77505.

In Lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to a scholarship fund for Anson Pryor by going to www.venmo.com/AnsonsCollegeFund, contact Chad Peschke at 713-725-7612, or make checks payable to Anson Pryor, 808 Stella Vista Court, Katy, Texas 77493.