Jane Glen Thomas

Jane Glen Thomas, loving wife, mother and grandmother passed away peacefully on Tuesday, the 1st of January 2013, with the love of her life, her husband of 54 years, by her side. She had suffered with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) for many years.

Jane was a native Houstonian, born at St. Joseph Hospital on the 16th of November 1937. She was the daughter of Dr. John King Glen and Annette Steen Glen. Jane was a graduate of Lamar High School, class of 1955 and proceeded to Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Jane married her college sweetheart, Joe Thomas, on the 21st of June 1958 after a two year courtship between Dallas and Austin.

Jane was a proud 50 year member of her sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta and served as a director of the Houston chapter of Amigo’s de las Americas having traveled with the Amigo’s volunteers to Central and South American countries.

Jane eagerly looked forward to the family trips to South Padre Island, Texas and the annual family reunions in Comfort, Texas, but her true passion in life was her family and her grandchildren who adored their Mimi.

Jane was preceded in death by her parents; and her sister, Judith Ann Muska.

Jane is survived by her husband, Joe Thomas; their children, David Glen Thomas, and wife Janice, Diane Thomas Reilly, and husband James Patrick; and three grandchildren, Jami, Jordan and Jenna Reilly. She is also survived by her sister-in-law, Peggy Thomas Wright, and husband Jerry, and their family.

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from five o’clock in the afternoon until seven o’clock in the evening on Friday, the 4th of January, at Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.

An interment service is to be conducted at half-past nine o’clock in the morning on Saturday, the 5th of January, at Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, 6900 Lawndale Avenue in Houston. A uniformed steward from Geo. H. Lewis & Sons is to be positioned at the cemetery entrance so as to guide guests to the interment site.

The memorial service is to follow at eleven o’clock in the morning, also on Saturday, in the Jasek Chapel of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston, where the Rev. Martin J. Bastian, Senior Associate Rector at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, is to officiate.

Immediately following, all are invited to greet the family during a reception at a venue to be announced during the service.

In lieu of customary remembrances, and for those desiring, memorial contributions may be directed to the Amigos de las Americas, 5618 Star Ln., Houston, TX, 77057; Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation,8740 Founders Rd., Indianapolis, IN, 46268; or to a charity of one’s choice.