Janice Lee Vance Brown

Janice Lee Vance Brown, 86, of Lampasas, passed away on Monday, October 7, 2024.  She was born to Basil and Rozella Vance in Logan, West Virginia on August 12, 1938.  She was the oldest of nine children.  Janice moved to Lampasas in 1957.

Visitation will be held at Sneed-Carnley Funeral Chapel in Lampasas on Thursday, October 10, 2024, from 5:30 pm to 7 pm.  Services will be on Friday, October 11, 2024, at 1 pm, at the First Street Church of Christ with burial to follow at Oak Hill Cemetery. 

She married the love of her life, Burke Brown on August 26, 1961.  They were happily married for 63 years.  She enjoyed cooking, sewing, playing a spirited game of 42 or 84 and helping Burke at the feedstore.  She also loved spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, attending church and time spent with her family.

Janice is survived by her husband, Burke Brown; her sisters, Chris Neace and husband Joe, Gloria Welman, Debbie Adkins and her husband David, and Shawn Green; her brothers, Tom Vance, Jim Vance; sisters-in-law, Hannah Kendrick, Peggy Stokes, Marilyn Brown; her children, Rickey Brown and wife Carol, Mark Brown, and wife Erica, Kim Brown Fisher and husband David; grandchildren, Jeremy Brown and wife Haley, Paul Ritter and wife Donna, Stephanie Rutland and husband Jeff, Tuesday Brown Dulkoski and husband Dylan, Tate Brown, Maegan Fisher Barnett and husband Oren, Wesley Fisher and wife Whitney, and Michael Fisher and wife Laura and 13 great-grandchildren. 

She was preceded in death by her parents, her sister Linda Starkey, her brother Bobby Vance, her sister-in-law Rachel Powers, her brothers-in-law Mike Brown, Ben Wellman, Ronald Green, and Tommy Kendrick, and her mother-in-law and father-in-law Fulton and Ima Brown.

The family would like to thank Lampasas Nursing and Rehab Center for the care they have given Janice over the last year and a half. If you would like to give a donation in lieu of flowers, the family suggests either the Lampasas County Livestock Association or the First Street Church of Christ.