Nancy Hamon

Nancy Blackburn Hamon Of Dallas, Texas, a noted philanthropist and the widow of legendary oil and gas operator, Jake L. Hamon, died in Dallas, Texas, on July 30, 2011, at the age of 92. Pursuant to her instructions, no funeral service or memorial service will be conducted. It was her desire that she be privately interred next to her deceased husband in Oklahoma. Mrs. Hamon has visited San Francisco and the Bay area regularly over a period of many decades and has been active in many cultural affairs. Mrs. Hamon was born December 12, 1918, in San Antonio, Texas, the daughter of McMaster Blackburn and Estelle Blackburn. She graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio and attended the University of Texas at Austin. She enjoyed a brief career in the movie industry in Hollywood. She has lived in Dallas since 1949, when she married Mr. Hamon. She was preceded in death by her son, Jake L. (Jay) Hamon III, who died in 1984. Her husband died in 1985. Her sole survivors are the grandchildren of her deceased husband, Dr. Laura Fisher of Providence, Utah, Devon Stokhof de Jong of Santa Fe, New Mexico, W. Wilson Fisher III, of Fort Worth, Texas, and Hamon Nichols of Oregon, and the nephew of her deceased husband, Robert McCullough, of Portland, Oregon. Mrs. Hamon has been involved in many philanthropic projects throughout the United States, but particularly in Dallas, San Francisco and San Antonio, and primarily in the arts, education and medicine. The principal beneficiaries of her philanthropy in the San Francisco area have been the Museums of Fine Arts, the Asian Museum, Grace Cathedral, and California Pacific Medical Center and California Pacific Medical Foundation.