Jane Brown Knickerbocker's Obituary
Jane Brown Knickerbocker died peacefully on July 16, 2019, in Dallas, TX at the age of 80.Jane was born on September 24, 1938, in Kilgore, TX and moved with her family to Dallas, TX in 1952. She graduated from Highland Park High School in 1957 and went to college at SMU where she was a sister in the Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority.She made an entrance wherever she went with her beauty and bright personality.Jane loved music, played the piano and had a beautiful voice she shared in the Highland Park Lads and Lassies, the Press Club of Dallas Gridiron Show and the Highland Park Presbyterian Church choir.Jane knew shorthand and could type at lightning speed, skills that came in handy when she worked for the Dallas Morning News, Earl Rawlins, Jr. and Lone Star Gas.She loved football and shouted, “Get ’em!!” the loudest for her boys on the Highland Park and Dallas Cowboys football teams.The beach in South Padre, the mountains in Crested Butte, chocolate ice cream, the color purple, and all her friends meant the world to her. She had a great sense of humor, loved a good conversation and never forgot to tell those she loved she loved them.She was most proud of her relationship with Christ, her sobriety and her children.Jane is survived by her daughter Lisa Foster and her husband Leonard Buhrow, son James Allan “Jimmy” McMurrey, daughter Dana Knickerbocker Tennyson and her husband James Tennyson, Dana’s father Robert Keats Knickerbocker, brother Allan Ellis Brown and wife Rene Brown, nephew Mark Brown, niece Abigail Brown, granddaughters Meredith Jane Foster and Samantha Reese Tennyson, grandsons Robert William Tennyson and Lane Riley Tennyson. She is preceded in death by her father Claude William “Brownie” Brown, mother Grace Lucille Ellis Brown, aunts Faye Brown Birge and Gene Ellis Martin, cousins Grace Ellis Lake Poole and Donald Martin Lake Jr., Lisa and Jimmy’s father Jim McMurrey, III, grandson James Jacob “J.J.” Foster and her devoted friend Anthony “Finis” Grinke. Jane was beautiful inside and out and loved dearly by all who knew her.A funeral in her honor is scheduled for 12:30 pm, Tuesday, July 23, 2019 at the Restland Funeral Home and Cemetery in the Wildwood Chapel, with a reception to follow. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Alzheimer’s Association or Highland Park Presbyterian Church.The family would like to thank the nurses and staff at Treemont Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center for the care and love they gave her the last few years of her life.
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