Jane Elizabeth Hutton, 105, passed away peacefully at her home in Denton, TX on March 15, 2016. Born December 10,1910 in Chicago to Grace and Milo Young. Services will be held Monday, March 21, 2016 in the Mulkey-Mason Funeral Home Chapel, 705 N. Locust, Denton, Texas. Visitation will be from 9:00a.m. until service time at 10:00AM. Interment will follow at 3:00pm at Chapelwood Memorial Cemetery in Texarkana, Texas. She married William L. Hutton in April of 1936. He preceded her in death in 1985. Survivors include her sons William (Bill) and wife Sue of Dallas and Myles and wife Nita of Conroe, TX; grandchildren Scott and Greg and wife Claudine of New York great-grandchildren Matthew and Juliet and Myles and wife Nita's children and her grandson Brad and granddaughter Kate and her husband Michael Castleberry and great-grandchildren Miles and Henry.
Jane grew up in Chicago during the depression. She worked at Marshal Fields and Firestone where she became the first female head of the credit union. She met her future husband in Chicago after he left Texas to find work during the depression. They had an on again/off again relationship for 9 years until the economy stabilized sufficiently so they could marry.
Following her marriage to Bill they moved to St. Louis and later when his company Hutton Truck and Caster was bought out moved with the new company to Keokuk, Iowa, where she had her two children, Bill and Myles. Bill is a physician and an ophthalmologist and sub specialist in retina surgery. Myles is a chemical engineer and was a senior executive with Chevron Chemical as manager of their largest chemical division.
Her husband retained his love of Texas and his desire to have a ranch there so in 1951 they took the risk and Jane and Bill moved to Texas and the city girl helped Bill pursue his dream of ranching, quite a transition from wife of an advertising executive .

She learned to vaccinate and helped dehorn and castrate the calves, ride a horse and slop pigs. She did all this with great humor and the experience provided fodder for her many wonderful stories. These stories were interwoven with tales from her childhood growing up in Chicago as the daughter of a prominent jeweler during the days of Al Capone, and with relatives such as the Hemingway's and aunts and uncles who lived in the upper peninsula of Michigan at a time when there were still a few starving Indians would come begging to the back door of her aunt while Jane was visiting.
She was amazing in her ability to see good in most people and to be open to new ideas and technology. In her time women gained the right to vote and she was very opinionated in her political views with a low tolerance for the self-aggrandizing bloviating politician but fairly open on social issues. Cars, a rarity in her childhood, became commonplace and she learned how to drive. She even had a cellphone and was trying to learn how to use a computer. She loved art and became an accomplished artist, and painted for many years. She read voraciously and in later life, as her eyesight faltered, she used the Kindle to continue exercising her brain. She remained incredibly sharp with complete recall of recent and past events.
She was a wonderful story teller and loved jokes. She had an extensive repertoire and retained excellent timing.
Jane and bill moved to Denton 1960 where she was an active member of the First Christian Church.
She was and longtime active volunteer for a thrift store supporting the center for abused women. After Bill's death in 1985 she lived alone and cared for her house and cut the grass and took care of the lawn until well into her 90's.
She moved to an independent living arraignment at Dogwood estates at age 101, and greatly loved the camaraderie there.
She often said people would tell her she was amazing but she felt the only reason they said this was because of her age. Most would disagree because she was one of those rare people who actually cared for others and for her entire life supported, mentored, encouraged and helped others. As a result she had a large circle of friends in her later life that helped her immensely.
Her optimism and joy of life will be missed by all.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests donations in her memory to her church (First Christian Church of Denton) or American Foundation for the Blind, Center on Visual Loss in Dallas.