Jency Lane Davis Owens

Jency Lane Davis Owens passed away Thursday, October 27, 2016.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, November 2, at First Baptist Church of Lakeside. Interment will follow at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

Jency was born on December 25, 1934, at home in Chillicothe, Texas, to Mary Leona Davidson and Douglas Davis. Jency graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Education from North Texas State College. She married Allen Joice Owens on February 11, 1955, and began her life as a Southern Baptist preacher’s wife. She and Allen were blessed with four children.

Jency skillfully juggled the role of being matriarch of Azle Avenue Baptist Church while also teaching in special education. She was married to Allen for 31 years. The church was her passion and she could be found playing the piano, singing in the choir, overseeing Vacation Bible School, serving on the Women’s Missionary Union and helping in many other ways. In addition, she completed her Master of Special Education at Texas Woman’s University.

After a long career in public education, Jency retired but only temporarily. She later was an education diagnostician, qualified mental retardation specialist and director of sheltered workshop at Mainstream Habilitation Services of Texas. She inspired her clients and helped them achieve their goals.

Jency continued with her love of mission work, traveling numerous times to Mexico to teach English and serve the needy. Throughout her life, she was an active in Sunday school and had the distinct pleasure of teaching Sunday school for 52 years.

Jency was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and church volunteer. She was passionate about her family. She could be found many a late night sewing clothes, costumes or pretty table decorations for her own family or the church family at large. She loved to read and enjoyed watching college football, the Texas Rangers and the Dallas Cowboys. She was a constant source of encouragement to those around her.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Leona and Doug Davis, and her late husband, Rev. Allen Owens.

She is survived by her daughters, Melanie Jill Gonzales and husband Alex, Jennifer Nichols and husband Jeff, and Jane Veigl and husband Mark; son, Dr. Joe Owens and wife and Beth; sister, Gail Davis Cotton; sister-in-law, Joyce Owens. She took much pride and joy in sharing life with her many grandchildren, nieces, nephews and other family members.