Jean Nipper

JEAN NIPPER MEMORIAL SERVICE A LAST GOODBYE On Saturday, April 4, 2009, at 1:00, a Memorial Service at Waltrip Funeral Directors, 1415 Campbell Rd., Houston, Texas will be held. Houston friends and colleagues will meet for a last goodbye. Alma Jean Nipper, born August 4, 1929, in Omaha, Texas, found eternal rest February 7, 2009. Daughter of Noreen Coffey and J.D. Nipper, Jean lived in Texas with most of her years spent in the Dallas, Houston, and Austin areas. She was a well known educator in each of those areas. Jean assisted her long time friend and partner, Ruth Denney in opening the Houston High School for the Performing Arts. After moving to Austin, she was an administrator working with AISD and established Texas' first electronic multi-agency educational resources network: GATIN. Jean also served on the Austin Cable Commision for several years. Ruth and Jean retired to the beautiful Lake Travis area with a home in Point Venture, Texas, where Jean was active with the Point Venture Community Association. Jean was a five event cancer survivor, and attacked the disease with her vigor and her well known strength of will that she brought to all projects. For the last two years, she lived in the Houston area with her sister, then The Vosswood Care Center. She passed away peacefully after another struggle began. Jean is survived by her brother and sister-in-law, Oscar and Bennie Nipper, her sister, Millie Freeman, and her niece, Susan Freeman, all of Houston.