Janette Katherine Glaves Douglass

Graveside service will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday April, 30, 2014 at Memory Garden Mausoleum Chapel with Reverend Kevin Deckard of Polk Street Methodist Church officiating.. Arrangements are by Griggs Schooler Gordon Funeral Directors 5400 S. Bell.

Burial is in Memory Gardens Cemetery

Janette Katherine Glaves was born October 15, 1925 to Virgil C. and Lucille B. Glaves in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She passed from this life on Sunday, April 27, 2014. She attended Lincoln Junior High and graduated from Frank L. Soldan High School in St. Louis, MO., in June 1943. Jane attended Southeast Missouri State Teachers College in Cape Girardeau, MO. On August 12, 1944, she married Eugene R. Douglass in Miami, Florida. They moved to Golden, Colorado in 1944, Cody, Wyoming in 1950, Buffalo, New York in 1952, and then to Amarillo in 1954. She had 3 sons along the way. Jane went back to school in 1964 and graduated from West Texas State University with a B.S. degree in Mathematics. She was named Outstanding Teacher Education Student in the Department of Mathematics for 1965-1966. Jane taught mathematics at Caprock High School in Amarillo from 1966 through 1978. Jane was the faculty sponsor of the 9th grade Caprock cheerleaders. After moving to Odessa in 1978, she continued her teaching career at Odessa High School in Odessa until her retirement in 1981. Following her move back to Amarillo, she volunteered in the HOSTS program at Palo Duro High School as a mathematics tutor. In 1980 she received an honorary degree from the Colorado School of Mines for her support of her husband, three sons, and a grandson that graduated from Mines. She enjoyed ice skating as a teenager growing up in Kenosha. After settling in Amarillo the family went to SW Colorado every summer in the late “50s and early “60s. Jane continued her love of the outdoors water skiing on Lake Meredith and making numerous trips to Anchorage, Alaska with her husband to visit their son and fish the waters of the Gulf of Alaska. Jane loved her Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals. She was an avid bridge player and loved to dance. Most of all, her involvement in the Methodist Churches of Amarillo and Odessa were her passion. She was a member of Polk Street Methodist Church, and a charter member of St. Stephen’s Methodist Church and rejoined Polk Street Methodist Church after moving back to Amarillo. She volunteered in many capacities of Polk Street Methodist Church. She will be missed by all her caregivers at the Craig Methodist Retirement Long Term Nursing Center and staff. Many thanks to the staff at BSA Hospice for the care she received during her final days.

Jane was preceded in death by her parents, a brother, John Glaves, a grandson, Brent Douglass and her husband of 50 years.

Jane is survived by a sister, Sally Krechel of St. Louis, MO; three sons, Steve and wife Selma of Amarillo, Russell and wife Kathleen of Tyler, and Kenneth and wife Emmy of Houston; four grandchildren, Matthew Douglass of San Francisco, CA, Carrie Raiyawa and husband Tukai of Houston, Nathan Douglass of Cincinnati, OH and Justin Douglass of Houston and numerous nieces and nephews.