Janice Hood Barrow
10/21/1928 – 12/16/2022
Janice Hood Barrow, age 94, handed away on Friday, the sixteenth of December 2022, in Houston. She was born on the twenty first of October 1928, in Portland, Oregon, to Lucile & Wilbur Hood.
Humor and laughter have been at all times current round Jan. She first met Thomas D. Barrow at Stanford College in 1948 on a blind date as a part of an elaborate sensible joke to be performed on a pal of Tom’s. The joke was quickly forgotten, however Tom proposed on their rapidly scheduled second date. “Definitely not!” she replied, however the couple have been married in September of 1950 after Jan graduated together with her diploma in political science. Quickly thereafter, they started a nomadic life collectively that lasted 61 years and took them to 4 California cities, New Orleans, two cities in Connecticut, and 4 occasions to Houston. Jan would wish her humorousness to outlive all of the strikes and the 4 youngsters she bore and raised alongside the way in which.
Christian religion was the bedrock of Jan and Tom’s life collectively. Jan was raised in Portland in a religious Baptist household. After marrying, Jan and Tom embraced the Episcopal Church because the religious residence during which to nurture their religion and lift their youngsters. Jan was by no means happy to observe when management was wanted, and she or he was lively in each church neighborhood the couple joined. At St. Edmunds in San Marino, California she served as President of the Episcopal Church Ladies and as a founding Trustee of the St. Edmunds Day College. She was a Vestrywoman at Christ Church in Greenwich, Connecticut and at Christ Church Cathedral in Houston, Texas, the place she chaired the Search Committee for a brand new Dean on the time.
In between elevating the kids and managing the house, Jan was an lively volunteer in each neighborhood during which the household lived. Early in her married life, Jan turned a member of the Junior League of Pasadena. Wherever the household moved, Jan joined the Junior League and was significantly lively in New Orleans and Houston, having a selected curiosity within the League’s Effectively Child Clinic. Her lively neighborhood service culminated in co-chairing the Houston Job Honest within the Astrodome. Jan’s dedication to service prolonged to the medical arts as properly. She was a devoted supporter of Houston Methodist Hospital and a founding Director of the hospital’s Middle for Performing Arts Drugs. She served as a Director of the Houston Speech and Listening to Clinic and as a Director of AWARE, a company devoted to Alzheimer’s illness assist and analysis.
Jan’s modest appraisal of her personal abilities apart, music, significantly classical music was her ardour. First uncovered to world-class orchestral and operatic music at Stanford and in San Francisco, Jan’s love for high-quality music grew higher all through her life and led to years of volunteer service with orchestras throughout the nation. In New Orleans, she helped to prepare the Junior Committee of the New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra and served as its second President. She then turned a Director of the New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra. In Houston Jan and Tom sponsored dozens of each aspiring and established musicians on the Houston Grand Opera Studio and the Houston Symphony. Connecting with these artists was one among her biggest joys, and she or he maintained these friendships for all times. To assist promote music training and love for classical music in future generations, Jan served as a Trustee of the Shepherd College of Music at Rice College. Jan’s lively assist of the high-quality arts was capped by a two-year time period as President of the Houston Symphony Society, to which she was later honored as a Lifetime Trustee.
If music was her ardour, journey and journey have been Jan’s joys. She at all times thought of it an amazing privilege to stay in so many components of the nation, understanding and having fun with its range. Whether or not for work or for pleasure, Jan and Tom lined the globe collectively. She visited all seven continents and over 100 international locations. At residence was a map of the world, dotted with stickpins to point out each vacation spot. Every pin may stimulate a night of tales and glad recollections of adventures with household and mates. She additionally reveled within the journey adventures that she impressed her youngsters and grandchildren to pursue.
Jan was preceded in demise by her dad and mom, Lucile Loyd Hood and Wilbur Kenneth Hood, and her husband, Thomas Davies Barrow.
She is survived by her sister, Barbara Conner of Portland, Oregon; sons, Ted Barrow and spouse Clare of San Diego, California, and Ken Barrow and spouse Donna of Denver, Colorado; daughters, Barbara McCelvey and husband Pat, and Elizabeth Brueggeman and husband Mark, each of Houston; beloved niece, Gayle Aman and husband Bob; grandchildren, Jane Barrow and husband Steve, Tom Barrow and spouse Rebecca, Sarah Barrow and husband Eric Smith, Lee Barrow and spouse Betsy, James McCelvey and spouse Crystal, Daniel McCelvey and spouse Laurie, Eric Brueggeman, Peter Brueggeman, and Kevin Brueggeman and spouse Adair; grand-niece, Kathleen Moffitt and husband Chad; and 9 great-grandchildren.
The household expresses their heartfelt gratitude to Norma Sarmiento and Linda Canning for his or her a few years of service, assist, and friendship to Jan.
Pals are cordially invited to collect with the household and share remembrances of Jan throughout a reception to be held from 5 o’clock within the afternoon till seven o’clock within the night on Sunday, the twenty ninth of January, within the grand lobby of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
A memorial service is to be performed at three o’clock within the afternoon on Monday, the thirtieth of January, within the sanctuary of Christ Church Cathedral, 1117 Texas Ave in Houston. KINDLY NOTE: For these unable to attend the service, digital attendance could also be accessed by visiting Jan’s on-line memorial tribute at GeoHLewis.com and choosing the “Be a part of Livestream” icon on the service part. Whereas there, you might also share recollections and phrases of consolation and condolence together with her household by choosing the “Add A Reminiscence” icon.
In lieu of customary remembrances, and for these needing, memorial contributions could also be directed to Christ Church Cathedral, 1117 Texas Avenue, Houston, TX 77002; or to the Houston Symphony, 615 Louisiana Road, Suite 102, Houston, TX 77002; or to the charity of one’s choice.
Jan might be remembered for the values by which she lived and for the graciousness she shared with all whom she met.
Printed by Houston Chronicle on Jan. 22, 2023.
