Leigh Anne Tanzberger

Leigh Anne Tanzberger passed away on Friday, November 3, 2017 at the age of 47 after a lifelong heroic battle with End Stage Renal Disease. Born June 13, 1970, she is the daughter of Eric Peter and Suzanne Evans Tanzberger of Sugar Land, Texas.

Leigh Anne attended Kehoe-France School in Metairie, Louisiana and graduated from Archbishop Chapelle High School in Metairie, Louisiana. She also attended Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana for two years and graduated from Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey with a B.S. in Business and Marketing while residing in Medford, New Jersey with her parents.

Leigh Anne dedicated her life to the advocacy of renal patients. Many years ago, she was the first and only patient in Texas to be invited to serve on the Board of Directors of the Texas Renal Coalition. She also served on the WeKan Committee of the Renal Support Network (RSN) and attended meetings in Washington, D.C. designed to promote legislation to further the well-being of patients with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). She was a trained “Hopeline” operator and has served on the Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Patient Advisory Committee for the End Stage Renal Disease Network #14 of Texas which oversees dialysis centers.

Leigh Anne was the founder of RSN’s annual Houston seminar and brunch, “Health, Happiness, and Hope,” for which she worked diligently bringing in doctors, dieticians, social workers and dialysis companies in order to educate patients and their families on how to cope with ESRD and transplantation. Leigh Anne truly believed the RSN motto, “An illness is too demanding when you don’t have hope.”

Leigh Anne was also a member of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Bend Friends and Neighbors, as well as Fort Bend County Women’s Center’s “Boogie” Committee.

Leigh Anne is preceded in death by her paternal grandparents Eric Walter and Kathryn Mountain Tanzberger of Allegany, New York and her maternal grandparents Clarence Hugh “Cal” Evans and June Stover Evans, originally from Pennsylvania and Olean, New York who resided in Houston, Texas for many years.

Leigh Anne is survived by her parents Eric Peter and Suzanne Evans Tanzberger originally from Olean, New York. She is also survived by her sister Lynn Tanzberger Hood of Mandeville, Louisiana and her brother Eric David Tanzberger and his wife Lisa Mikill Tanzberger of Houston, Texas. Leigh Anne also leaves behind her beloved nieces and nephews, L. Paul Hood III and Evan Peter Hood of Mandeville, Louisiana, as well as Kathryn Audrey and Elizabeth “Elise” Tanzberger of Houston, Texas. She is also survived by many aunts and uncles including Steven and Anne Tanzberger Slavin of Eldred, Pennsylvania, Thomas Hugh and Maria Evans of Salisbury, Maryland; Jerry Stover Evans of Justin, Texas; Robert Leroy Evans of Austin, Texas; Richard Peter and Kimberlee Evans of Colleyville, Texas and many cousins.

The Tanzberger family wishes to thank the many excellent and caring doctors, nurses and technicians who have cared for and about Leigh Anne’s well-being over the years. We also wish to thank Dr. Amer Khan and the staff of ‘FRESENIUS’ Westminster Dialysis Center for their dedication and the fine, caring doctors at Methodist Sugar Land Hospital and Methodist Medical Center Houston.

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM on Wednesday, November 8, 2017, in the White Oak Room of Memorial Oaks Funeral Home, 13001 Katy Freeway in Houston.

Funeral Service will be held on Thursday, November 9, 2017 at 1:00 PM in the Chapel of Memorial Oaks Funeral Home.

Interment will follow in Reflection Lakes Estates of Memorial Oaks Cemetery.

Immediately following, all are invited to greet the family during a reception in the Memorial Oaks Event Center.

In lieu of customary remembrances, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to Fort Bend Friends and Neighbors Foundation (fbfnfoundation.org), P.O. Box 19008, Sugar Land, Texas 77496; Fort Bend County Women’s Shelter (fbwc.org) P.O. Box 183, Richmond, Texas 77406; Renal Support Network (rsnhope.org) RSN,1146 N. Central Ave., Glendale, CA 91207;or the charity of your choice.

Arrangements under the direction of Memorial Oaks Funeral Home, Houston, TX.