Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....BRYAN, JANE COLVIN  November 1, 2016
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News Star World - November 04, 2016
JANE COLVIN BRYAN

Funeral services for Jane Colvin Bryan, 89, of West Monroe, Louisiana will 
be held at noon Friday, November 4, 2016 at Kilpatrick's Funeral Home West 
Monroe with Rev. Woods Watson officiating. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. 
until noon. Gloria Jane Colvin was born on March 9, 1927 and moved to Heaven 
on November 1, 2016. She graduated from Louisiana Tech at the age of 19 and 
began her teaching career in Delhi, Louisiana. Many of her beloved students 
still stay in contact with her. She went on to obtain a master's degree in 
teaching and later a master's degree in library science.

Jane is best known as a nationally recognized librarian in Mississippi. She 
served as director of the Pike -Amite-Walthall library system in McComb, MS. 
She then went on to lead the Jackson-George Regional Library System in 
Pascagoula. She was responsible for building one of the best and most 
progressive libraries in the state there in the 1980's. Many of the reading 
and learning programs she developed in Mississippi were recognized 
nationally for their innovation and creativity. She also served for six 
years as a board member of the Arts and Humanities counsel for the state of 
Mississippi.

Jane retired from the Mississippi Library System and moved back home to 
Louisiana in 1990 to live in the Monroe area to be near friends and family. 
Jane was the youngest of four sisters and grew up during the Depression in 
Ruston, Louisiana. Jane knew no strangers, and welcomed all who would join 
her for storytelling, reminiscing and singing. She is also well known as a 
lover of the arts and world travel. She had a great love for any type of 
adventure, and was still wanting to travel in her later years. She was an 
active member of the Agape Sunday School Class at First West and supported 
numerous missions. She dearly loved her Sunday school sisters.

She is preceded in death by her mother, Mattie Lou Burgess Colvin; father 
Louis Daniel Colvin; her sisters, Louise Colvin Covington, Joyce Colvin and 
Nancy Colvin, and her husband, George Bennett Bryan. She is survived by her 
son, Scott Bryan of Houston, Texas, and grandchildren, Alexandra Bryan and 
Nick Bryan, both of The Woodlands, Tx. She is also survived by niece, Susan 
Covington Jones and her husband John of Monroe and her "adopted" niece Penny 
Cook; nephews Louis Covington and his wife Judy of Haughton, LA; Danny 
Covington of Orlando, Florida and beloved great nephews Casey Covington of 
Little Rock, Arkansas, Jordan Covington of Haughton and Taylor Jones of 
Atlanta, GA.

She gave us a love of travel, of culture and yet at the same time taught us 
to spit in every mudpuddle. She also taught us the fine art of skinny 
dipping. She taught all to love life and to enjoy it. She helped many kids 
to go to school and better themselves. This world is a much better place 
because of Jane Bryan. To so many she was simply known as Aunt Jane.

The family would like to thank the staff of the Savannah Grand and Louisiana 
Hospice. Special thanks to Heather Curry and Penny Cook for so lovingly 
taking care of Aunt Jane and also to her Agape Sunday School class at First 
West. Yay for God!

Online condolences may be sent to the family at

www.kilpatrickfuneralhomes.com

Kilpatrick Funeral Home

West Monroe, LA

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