Jane A. (“Jana”) King, 86, most recently of Farmington Hills, Michigan, passed away on December 22, 2022.
Jana was born on December 6, 1936, to her beloved parents Ila Grace Mayo Weaver and Herbert Thomas Weaver in Gorman, Texas. She and her older brother, Herbert T. Weaver, Jr., were proud to call Eastland, Texas, their home. Despite bypassing two grades in school, Jana graduated as Valedictorian from Eastland High School at the age of 16. She studied education at Baylor University in Waco and was a member of DAP sorority. After graduation, Jana worked briefly as an elementary school teacher.
Jana married W. Douglas King in 1958. They soon welcomed three children into their family for whom Jana spent the remainder of her life in nurturing and unwavering support. Other than her Christian faith, her family was her focus. Through festivities and failures, trials and triumphs, she comforted, strengthened, and encouraged. This included not only more formal roles as classroom mother, Girls in Action leader, and Cub Scouts sponsor, but also in countless acts of counseling, reassurance, and hand-holding. After raising her children in Shreveport, Louisiana, Jana moved to the Dallas, Texas, area where she worked for W.R. Grace and Manpower. She moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2004 to be near her daughter and granddaughters, and was employed by various schools in the area. In each of these cities, she was a faithful and dedicated member of a Baptist Church. Her final church home was South Tulsa Baptist, where she was a member of the Ruth’s Open Door Sunday School class and volunteered as a Sunday morning greeter and weekly meal server. She greatly enjoyed assisting at The Ministry Center, a clothing mission in the Tulsa area.
