Janet Leah Doyle

After graduating Mount Pleasant High School, Jan married her high school sweetheart, David Kyte Doyle. Jan and Dave were married on 26 July, 1952. Jan married into the U.S. Army and would spend the next 33 years of her life packing up and moving every two to three years. The Army life, however, gave the young couple a chance to see the world. Jan and Dave had three boys (Dave, Jeff, and Steve) in a four year span. Jan's family life consumed all of her attention. While in the military, Jan worked with the Protestant Women of the Chapel, The Officer's Wife's Club, and The Daughters of Arlington National Cemetery.

Jan's Methodist faith was an important component of her life-as it grounded her to the important things of this world and those of the next. Jan loved to play Methodist hymns on her piano and hand write Christmas cards. Jan's interests included a rigorous daily walk, reading thick mystery novels, and cooking for the family. Jan was known for delicious family style meals that included "chili chicken", "skillet spaghetti," and "Hungarian goulash." During the last 8 years of Jan's life, she struggled with the brutal disease of Alzheimer's. It took the wife and mother we all knew ... slowly and methodically away from us.

Jan Doyle is survived by her husband (pictured above), and her three sons. In addition, she is also survived by her sister, Sara Wenner and brother in law Rolfe Wenner; her son in law, Kaco Embery; her daughter in law, Marilyn Doyle; and the grandkids (Melissa and Alex; Brittany and Martin). Jan is preceded in death by her father, Francis Colbourne, her mother Bell Colbourne, and her step mother Ethel Colbourne.

Visitation will be held from 2:30 to 3:00 p.m. with funeral services beginning at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 5, 2016 at Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home on North Lamar. Interment will be held at Arlington National Cemetery at a later date. Slideshow: http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=2CauWLRmzYqP8Y

Memorial contributions may be made to the Darryl K. Royal Research Foundation for Alzheimer's Disease, P O Box 5839, Austin, TX 78763. http://www.dkrfund.org/

"You are missed every day, Mom. Goodbye. Your love burns steady within us."