Janice McBride Redding

1944 - 2008

Janice McBride Redding died tragically in an automobile accident in Idaho on Thursday, July 17, 2008, while returning home from her cabin in Montana.
Funeral Mass: 1 p.m. Friday, July 25, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, LaPorte, with Father Gary Rickles officiating. Rosary: 7 p.m. Thursday at Paul U. Lee Funeral Home in La Porte.
Memorials: In lieu of flowers, any remembrances to Janice may be made to the charity of St. Jude's Hospital. Checks should be made out to St. Jude's Hospital and mailed in care of Howard Redding, 4905 Briar Patch Lane, Burleson, Texas 76028, or Anerson McBride, 14002 Lakeside Terrace, Houston, Texas 77044. Please note Janice McBride Redding Memorial Fund in the memo section.
Born Aug. 16, 1944, in Houston, she was the youngest child of Anerson McBride and Margaret Guthrey McBride. A lifelong Texan, Janice lived in Galena Park during her school years, graduating from Galena Park High School in 1963 and then attending colleges in the Houston area. She married her first husband, Robert G. Seydler, in 1967. While living in Houston they had their two children, Jason and Laura. In 1978, the family moved to Boerne, located in the beautiful Texas Hill Country, where they resided for 13 years.
Janice was married to Howard Redding in 1998 and had lived in Burleson since 1996. With Howard, she loved visiting her grandchildren, family and friends, and traveling throughout the United States and abroad attending bluegrass festivals. A devout Catholic, she enjoyed volunteering at the church.
Janice began her career as a homemaker and then later became a pre-kindergarten teacher in Boerne. In 1988 she began working for her father's company, Insultherm Inc. She loved to travel for the company, attend trade shows and meet people. No one was a stranger to Janice, and she will be missed by all who knew her and all those she touched.
Survivors: Her husband, Howard P. Redding; her parents; her son, Jason Bryan Seydler, his wife, Yadira, her granddaughter, Vivian, and grandson, Andrew; her daughter, Laura Sciubba and husband, Steve, her granddaughter, Isabella, but unfortunately she has missed the birth of her grandson due in two weeks; her stepson, Bryan Redding, his wife, Darcy, her granddaughter, Margo; and her stepson, Ian Redding, his wife, Lisa, granddaughter, Hannah, and grandson, Conner. She will be missed by her brother, John McBride and Nancy; nephew, Noah McBride; sister, Robyne McBride; and brother, Mark McBride, his wife, Kathy, and nephews, Patrick and Jonathan McBride.