Taught Physics and Physical Science at R. L. Turner High School from 1969 - 1986

OBITUARY
 

MALONE, , JANE ALISON GRAHAM Born October 5, 1924 in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, passed away July 7, 2006 in Plano, Texas. Jane graduated valedictorian from her high school and Summa Cum Laude from Iowa Wesleyan College, her degree in Chemistry which she proudly used to serve her country making bombs during WWII. She married John Malone and settled in Texas, becoming a high school science teacher. She taught Physics and Physical Science at R. L. Turner High School from 1969 - 1986. Upon her retirement, she began to actively participate in giving her time and talent to the whole community. She taught ESL at the Manske Library. She became the backbone of the Farmers Branch Senior Citizens Ukulele Band as the piano accompanist, composer, arranger and director of their programs, delighting young and old alike with charitable performances in nursing homes and senior centers metroplex-wide. In her loving and nurturing heart, she also cared for the 4-legged less fortunate, taking in strays, providing them a secure and loving home. Those she couldnt adopt she financially supported. Donations in her name are gratefully being accepted at Stray Dog, Inc., P.O. Box 1465, Gun Barrel City, TX 75147. For details, the website is www.straydog.org. She is survived by her husband of 61 years, John N. Malone, one daughter, Kitty Malone of Farmers Branch, and two sons, Michael John Malone and wife Randi of Houston, and Patrick Graham Malone and wife Donna of Dallas; five grandchildren, Dr. Clinton Malone and wife Lorie, and Mindi Cook and husband Brian, all of Houston, and Leah, John Patrick and Matthew Malone of Lewisville; three step-grandchilren, Matthew and Adam Waldrop of Dallas and Caroline Broaddus and husband Matthew of Hurst; four great-grandchildren, Payton and Sasha Malone, and Evan and Connor Cook, all of Houston, and one step great-granddaughter, Abigail Broaddus of Hurst. Memorial Services will be held on Monday, July 10, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. at Christ United Methodist Church where Jane was an active member. She will be greatly missed.   Dignity Memorial Rhoton Funeral Home I35 at Crosby Rd. Carrollton (972) 242-5261

The Dallas Morning News - July 10, 2006
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

JOHN and JANE MALONE - After 61 years of married life, they were in sync even at end
Dallas Morning News, The (TX) - Sunday, July 16, 2006
Author: JON NIELSEN, Staff Writer

John Malone was a rough-and-tumble West Texas native who cherished the outdoors and didn't know how to use a washing machine. His wife, Jane, was a cultured girl from Iowa who kept the couple's household in order and never missed a question on Jeopardy.

"They were total opposites, and that's where they filled in each other's gaps," said the couple's son, Patrick Malone of Dallas. "Dad was easygoing and lovable and rolled with the flow. Mom took care of the details. Mom was the glue that kept them together."

The Farmers Branch couple died within a day of each other this month. A joint funeral service was last week.

If Mrs. Malone, 81, was the glue, Mr. Malone, 86, was the capricious spirit who needed taming, having once fought off a bear at their Yellowstone National Park campsite with a bullwhip and firecrackers.

"Dad made sure we could survive in the wild," said Kitty Malone, the couple's daughter. "Mother made sure we could sit at the queen's table and know how to act."

Despite their differences, their love remained strong to the end.

Mrs. Malone's greatest fear was that she would be the first to die, her son said. She often worried about how her family and her husband, without domestic skills, would get along without her.

Earlier this month, her fear became a reality when Mrs. Malone was admitted to a hospital after showing signs of a stroke. While she was hospitalized, Mr. Malone was admitted to a nearby room to await an angioplasty after suffering a mild heart attack.

The couple's son told hospital workers to keep the pair separated until their health improved because he knew his mother would worry about her husband's condition. But on July 6, Mr. Malone sat by his wife's bedside, holding her hand while she slept. When she woke up and noticed he was wearing a hospital gown, she grew concerned.

"You could see the look on her face. You could see she began to stress," her son said.

The next morning, Mrs. Malone died of complications from her stroke.

When the family told Mr. Malone that his wife of 61 years had died , his son said, "you saw the life drain out of him."

During his angioplasty, Mr. Malone suffered a massive stroke. He died July 8.

"He was saying basically, 'I'm ready to join her,'" his son said. "He grabbed her on the heel on the way up."

The Malones had their first date in the winter of 1944 in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Mr. Malone was about to be shipped off by the Army to become a gunnery sergeant during World War II. Mrs. Malone was completing her chemistry degree at Iowa Wesleyan University.

After a three-week courtship, the two married Jan. 10, 1945.

While Mr. Malone trained ball-turret gunners stateside during the war, Mrs. Malone made bombs for the military as a civilian.

When the couple reunited after the war, they moved to Austin, where Mr. Malone started his career as a football coach and became a two-time Golden Gloves boxing champion.

The two shared each other's passion for education.

He spent time at small schools in all corners of the state until the couple made their home in Farmers Branch in 1968.

Mrs. Malone earned a bachelor's degree in physics at Texas A&M University and her master's at Texas Woman's University. She taught science at several high schools across the state before settling at R.L. Turner High School from 1969 to 1986.

After they retired in the 1980s, Mr. Malone took up gardening and pursued his passion for fishing. Mrs. Malone taught English-as-a-second-language classes at Manske Library. She also directed musicals with the Farmers Branch Senior Citizens Ukulele Band, which entertained seniors at assisted-living centers in North Texas.

The family invited the band to the funeral last week to present a few songs from the Big Band era, Mrs. Malone's favorite time. But without her direction, the group couldn't get it together.

"We tried to get them to perform," said the couple's daughter, "but they said, 'We can't even sing a song. We can't do it without your mother.'"

In addition to their son and daughter, the couple is survived by another son, Michael Malone of Houston.
 

The Dallas Morning News - July 10, 2006
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams