Jane Cagle

Jane Proctor Spencer Cagle passed away Tuesday, July 29, 2008, at approximately 12:15 a.m. at Hospice Ministries in Ridgeland, Mississippi. Funeral services will be 11:00am Thursday, July 31, 2008, from the chapel of Wright & Ferguson Funeral Home, Ridgeland, MS. Visitation will be today from 5:00pm till 7:00pm and 10:00am till 11:00am Thursday at the Funeral Home. Internment will be in Parkway Memorial Cemetery Ridgeland, MS.
Jane Proctor Spencer Cagle was born September 1, 1923, in Dallas, Texas to the late William Carl and Cressie Proctor and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas at age 16. She received a BS in Home Economics from Southern Methodist University in 1943. In 1944, she married, Lt. Ross Bertrand Spencer, a Naval Academy graduate who was doing his primary flight training at the Naval Air Station near Dallas. Their married life began in Daytona Beach, Florida and they later moved throughout the U.S. from San Diego, California to Klamath Falls, Oregon to Pasco, Washington, Minneapolis, Minnesota to Virginia Beach, Virginia and later Washington, DC. In 1953, Jane and Ross moved from Washington to Jackson, Mississippi with their first two children, Rand and Sally, after Ross left active military service as a Captain in the Navy, and began working as an independent oil producer with Jane's father in Jackson. Jane's and Ross' third child, Nancy, was born in Jackson in 1956.
Jane was quite active in the Jackson community. She served as president of the Triangle Club of St. Andrew's Episcopal Day School and the Black Gold Club. During her 55 years in Jackson, she also served as an officer in numerous luncheon, garden, dinner, and bridge clubs including La Comida, Los Comaradas, Southern Luncheon Club, Calliope Club, Town Club, Town and Country Garden Club and the 21 Club, to name a few, along with long-time neighborhood bridge clubs and her latest – the Sunday Afternoon Bridge Club. Not only did Jane love playing bridge and spending time with her friends, she enjoyed singing with the Jackson Opera Chorus (for-runner to the Mississippi Opera) and was also a former member of the McDowell Music Club, as well as a member of the Gallery Guild of the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Mississippi Museum of Art Auxiliary, the Mississippi Symphony League, and the Dallas Woman's Club. In later years, Jane volunteered at the Eudora Welty House and Garden. She was a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist for almost 40 years, where she was the soloist for ten years during that time. Prior to that, Jane was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Jackson where she was an active member of Circle 8.
After Ross's death in 1995, Jane met and married Vice Admiral Malcolm Cagle (Ret.) a former classmate of Ross' at the Naval Academy. They were married for seven years before his passing.
Jane was preceded in death by her youngest child, Nancy Spencer Coker.
She is survived by her son, Dr. Rand Spencer and his wife, Sherry of Dallas Texas; daughter, Sally Spencer Dalgarno and her husband, Dedrick Dalgarno of Port Townsend, Washington; son-in-law, David J. Coker of Jackson; sister, Martha Proctor Mack of La Jolla, California; grandchildren, Elizabeth Sarme of Jackson, Ashley Spencer Leake of Dallas, Richard Spencer of Arlington, Virginia, and Ross and Christian Coker of Jackson; great-grandchildren, William and Charlie Leake of Dallas, and nieces, Ann Mack Abbott of Laguna Beach, California, and Susan Mack Oliver of La Jolla, California.
Memorials may be made to Hospice Ministries, Inc., 450 Towne Center Blvd., Ridgeland, MS 39157; Southern Methodist University, Office of Development, PO Box 750402, Dallas TX 75275-0402. ; The Retina Foundation of the Southwest at 9900 N. Central Expressway #400, Dallas, TX 75231; or The Eudora Welty Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 55685, Jackson, MS 39296.