Janice Treat

Janice Treat, of Seagoville, TX passed away on October 24th, 2026, at the age of ninety-two. She will always be remembered as a loving Mother, Sister, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, Aunt and Great-Aunt. She was born on February 28th, 1934, in Snyder, TX to Earl and Gladys Smith.

Janice started life as a rural farm girl who loved to ride horses. Her father always said she was a good hand around the farm. She married Red (Raymond) Treat at the age of sixteen and had six children with him. She started college at Texas Tech at the age of thirty-five, made straight A’s, and became a middle-school teacher in the Dallas Independent School District after moving to Kleberg, TX in 1974. She taught special education, math, and computer literacy and later retired from D.I.S.D. She was insatiably curious and loved to learn. Any topic was interesting to her. She loved learning Spanish and was able to converse well with her Spanish-speaking neighbors. She loved cats and dogs and murder mysteries, movies (especially Pink Panther, The Princess Bride, and The Last Starfighter), crossword puzzles, solving the Rubik's Cube (something she was still doing almost daily only a month before her passing). She also loved to paint, crochet, knit, and tat. She was a lifelong Baptist and loved to attend church, where she often taught classes. In her later years, she and several of her brothers, sisters, and in-laws met weekly for Bible study and Bible trivia at her home.

Janice is survived by sons Bobby, Ricky, and Michael, daughters Nancy, Rhonda, and Teresa, brothers Larry and Jerry Smith, and too many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews to mention. She was preceded in death by her husband Red (Raymond) Treat, brothers Weldon and Gerald Smith, and sister Gwen Smith.

An informal memorial will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 31st at the home of Mike and Karen Treat at 1308 Quapaw Trail in Mesquite, TX. A balloon release (purple balloons, of course) will be held to celebrate her passing into the loving arms of her Savior to join her husband, Red, in eternity. In her last days, she regularly mentioned looking forward to once again riding horses. She will be missed greatly and remembered fondly.