She was born on March 16, 1932 in Ballinger, Texas, and was the eldest of four sisters born to J.G. Tuckey and MaryLou Patterson Tuckey.
She created a beautiful life for herself and her family, centered around her artwork. Her earliest wish was to become an artist. She fulfilled that aspiration by graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Baylor University, and studying with various artists throughout her life. She taught art in the public schools, became a magazine art-editor, and loved being a private art teacher. All while creating volumes of paintings of different mediums and subjects - portraits over the years, still life paintings, studies of the Maasai tribe members, and eventually abstracts. She often said she could not NOT paint.
She was preceded in death by her husband of fifty years, Harold James Devlin, both her parents, and her younger sister Sharon Dykes. She is survived by her daughter Amanda and husband Robert Trapp, her son Jim and wife Caryl Devlin, and son Tuckey and wife Cindy; grandchildren Jay and wife Kathryn Trapp, Mary Elizabeth Trapp, Genevieve Devlin and her partner Able Ponce, and Lex Devlin; great grandchildren Miya Ponce and Jackson Trapp; and sisters Linda Reinhart and Dian Pack, as well as multiple nieces and nephews.
A Memorial Service will be held on September 20, 2024 at 2:00pm at St. James Episcopal Church, 1803 Highland Hollow Dr., Conroe, TX.
The children wish to thank the wonderful family at Grace Family Care Center in Spring for the loving, dedicated care of their mom, and Judy Forsman, Chaplain of Oasis Hospice, for her much appreciated spiritual encouragement. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to your charity of choice.
