Lois Jane Brigham Littrell, 93, Waco, Texas, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014. Funeral services were Sept. 12, at Waco Memorial Park.
Jane was born to Arthur Perry and Kathryn Hentz Brigham in the front bedroom of their home in Iola on Nov. 19, 1920. Iola was a great place to grow up. She had a dog named Peggy.” Her mom baked a pie almost every day. She graduated from Iola High School and Allen County Junior College and attended a year of nursing school in Kansas City, Mo., before marrying her high school sweetheart, Dr. Joe Litttrell. She was a war time bride. They moved to Waco in 1951 for Joe to practice podiatry and to rear their young family. Jane was a stay-at-home mom and was very good at it. She was very active in the lives of her husband and five children.
She was a self-proclaimed “chocoholic” and a 27-year cancer survivor.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 65 wonderful years; parents, Arthur Perry and Kathryn Brigham; brothers, Arthur Perry Brigham Jr., and James Newton Brigham; and sister-in-law, Ruth Brigham.
She is survived by her five children, Martha Farlow and husband, Jack, Ft. Worth, Steve Littrell and wife, Karen, Conway, Ark., Scott Littrell and wife, Pam, Waco, Andy Littrell and wife, Tracie, Waco, and Laura Sheehy and husband, Trip, Waco; 12 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren, and sister-in-law, Jo Ann Hess Brigham.
She will make heaven a better place.
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Lois Littrell
