JEANES, Alice Marie (Hebb) - b. September 3, 1932 - d. November 21, 2023

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Alice Marie Jeanes was born to Martin and Violet (Friend) Hebb on September 3, 1932 at her maternal grandparents' farmhouse just north of Howard, Kansas.  She passed away on November 21, 2023 in Bryan, Texas.

Alice was the oldest of four children with a brother, James, and sisters, Lucille and Shirley.  After graduating from Howard High School in 1950, she moved to Wichita, Kansas to attend the American Business College.  While working at the Veterans Hospital in Wichita, she met and married John Frederick.  From this marriage, June, Marsha, and Duane were born.  She raised the children as a single parent while working at Beech Aircraft Corporation.  In 1970, she married Weldon Ramsey, and together they had a daughter, Renee.  It was during this marriage that the family moved to Texas, arriving in Bryan in 1972.  She remained married to Weldon until his death in 1987.  Once again, she was a single parent raising a child.  In 1999, she married Alfred W. (A.W.) Jeanes, Sr. until his death in 2005.

Alice began her career with the Texas A&M University-Entomology Department in 1972.  Initially working at the Entomology Research Lab, she gained a wealth of knowledge about flies, roaches, beetles, bees, and other insects, pests, and diseases.  In 1978 after the completiong of the Minnie Belle Heep Building, she transferred to the Student Counseling Office.  In 1982, she became secretary for the Department Head until his retrement in 1993.  In 1997, she retired, having served the Department for 25 years.  Alice received the Department of Entomology's Meritorious Staff Award in 1997 and was nominated for the 1996 Vice Chancellor's Award in Excellence Program.  In December 2017, she was rcognized with a lifetime Achievement Award from the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M University, the first staff member and woman to receive this award.

During her spare time, Alice was an avid bowler.  Her passion for bowling spanned five decades beginning in Wichita, Kansas and ending with leagues in College Station, Texas.  She bowled in ladies' leagues, mixed leagues, and senior leagues and participated in numerous city and state tournaments.

Alice also loved to travel which she inherited from her mother and passsed down to her children.  She traveled east to the Atlantic Coast in North Carolina, west to the Pacific Ocean in Oregon, north to Minot, North Dakota, south to the Texas beaches along the Gulf of Mexico, and so many places in between.  There was also a trip to Germany with her grandson, Justin.  One of her most recent travels included visiting the life-size Noah's Ark in Williamstown, Kentucky.

Alice is surived by her children, June Davenel, Marsha Puckett, Duane Frederick, and Rene (Kevin) Gerbers along with nine grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild due in 2024; and her sisters, Lucille Knight of Howard, Kansas and Shirley (Lew) McGill of Fair Grove, Missouri.  She was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, James Martin Hebb and his wife, Marga; her brother-in-law, Ernie Knight; her sons-in-law, David Puckett and Mel Davenel; and her daugher-in-law, Kimberly Frederick.

A Celebration of Life service will be held on Friday, December 15, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. at Callaway-Jones Funeral Center in Bryan, Texas.  There will be an hour of visitation prior to the service beginning at 1:00 p.m.  Services have been entrusted to Callaway-Jones Funeral Home and Cremation Center, 3001 S. College Avenue, Bryan, Texas 77801.

(taken from the Callaway-Jones Funeral Center website)