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Reverend Doctor Fane Downs

Kerrville, Texas

1935 - 2019 (Age 84)

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DIED
December 11, 2019
AGE
84
LOCATION
Kerrville, Texas

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Reverend Doctor Fane DownsKerrville - The Reverend Doctor Fane Downs was born on March 26, 1935 in Lubbock, TX and passed away on December 11, 2019, in Kerrville, TX.She was the first child of Jack Downs and Margaret Stanton Downs. Her father said that his first born child would be named for his...

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I remember Fane marching up and down the hall of the Girls Dorm in Stepehnville Playing her trombone! What a lucky girl I was to spend the summer of 1953 playing in the Tarlton "Texas All Star Band' with her! She is an indelible memory for me and it seems many others.

Fane was a very good friend. I shared an office with her and a few other graduate students when we were doing work on our Ph.D. degrees at TTU, The last course i taught at Tech was Texas history in the summer of 1971 for which she shared with me a copy of the notes she had used when she taught the subject. She in numerous ways was one of the most accomplished of the Texas Tech history department alumni. It was an honor to have known her and enjoyed many lengthy conversa-tions about...