In Loving Memory

Jane Mueller Giddings

Jane Mueller Giddings
March 12, 1933
January 21, 2017
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Jane Mueller Giddings was born on March 12, 1933, in Fort Worth, Texas. She peacefully passed away Saturday, January 21, 2017, in Brenham Texas.

As an infant, Jane was adopted by John Sidney and Imogene (Ross) Gillett and raised in Georgetown, Texas where she attended Georgetown High School and graduated in 1950 as the valedictorian. Jane went on to attend Southwestern University in Georgetown, graduating in 1954 as the salutatorian with a Bachelor of Science degree Cum Laude in Chemistry. She was President of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority, an elected member and Historian of the Cardinal Key National Honor Society, a member of the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society, the Science Society, the Women’s Advisory Counsel, Interfraternity Counsel, the National Women’s Panhellenic Conference, and the Glamazons (a less academically rigorous society for tall coeds). Jane was recognized nationally in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, and was the Alpha Delta Pi Beauty for 1954.

Following graduation, Jane went to work for M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston in medical research. She married Alton (‘Al’) Robert Mueller in June 1955, and became a devoted housewife and mother. She was an active member of Faith Lutheran Church in Bellaire Texas, where she taught Sunday school. She was team mother and score keeper for many a youth sports team, and as her children grew older she became a substitute teacher at their school, in such high demand that some years she taught every day of the school year.

After Al’s sudden death in 1984, Jane was blessed to remarry in July 1988, to Dr. Thomas Giddings, himself a widower, and lifelong friend. She resettled in Thomas’ hometown of Brenham, Texas, which also was the childhood home of Al and a comfortable and familiar place to Jane. She continued her work in the church and with children, volunteering in reading programs for youth in Brenham schools. She took up golf to spend more time with Thomas, and scored the first and likely only hole-in-one in the history of the Mueller family. She loved the annual women’s-only Beach Group trips with her friends from Houston, and to travel with Thomas and the group from Brenham.

Jane was preceded in death by her parents, John Sidney and Imogene Gillett, and husbands, Alton R. Mueller and Thomas H. Giddings. She is survived by daughter, Sharon Rone and husband Mark; son, Cody and wife Chilton Mueller; five grandchildren, Cody Mueller Rone, Gaines Stockton Mueller, Darcy Chilton Mueller, Cannon Schilling Mueller, and Georgiana Teays Mueller; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Marvin and JoAnn Mueller; stepchildren, Hunter Giddings; Mary and husband Don Wenske, and Julie and husband James Pieper; and step-grandchildren Benjamin Thomas Landgraf, Will Thomas Pieper, Sarah Johnson, and Kelly Wall.

Special thanks to the staff and extended family at Kruse Village and Compassionate Care Hospice for caring for our mother to the end, as well as to the Giddings, Wenske, and Pieper families and Gloria Smith for their love and support of mom throughout the years.

Funeral services will be held Monday, January 23, at Brenham Memorial Chapel with Pastor Kay Reed officiating. Burial will be in Prairie Lea Cemetery where Jane will be laid to rest next to Al. A reception for family and friends will follow at Brenham Memorial Chapel.

Pallbearers were: Cody Rone, Gaines Mueller, Cannon Mueller, Mark Rone, Benjamin Thomas Landgraf, and Will Thomas Pieper.

Memorials can be made to First United Methodist Church, Brenham, Texas, or Faith Lutheran Church, Bellaire, Texas.