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William D. Loftice
12 December 1915 - 27 August 2003

Janie E. Loftice
21 February 1919 - 8 January 2005

Herald Democrat
January 11, 2005

VAN ALSTYNE - Janie Earline Loftice, age 85, went home to with her Lord and Saviour and to reunite with her husband of sixty-eight years on Saturday, January 8, 2005 at Wilson N. Jones Hospital in Sherman.

Janie was born on February 19, 1919, in Anna, Texas. Her parents were Randal and Sarah Short. She married Willie Loftice on November 13, 1934, in McKinney, Texas. She was a housekeeper, devoted wife, loving mother and grandmother, and a faithful Christian. She was a member of the Sedalia Baptist Church. The mother of eight children of her own, Janie always made room for the extras who came to her home to visit and many of them called her their second mom and were nurtured in their spiritual walk because of her faithfulness and her prayers for them.

Funeral services will be Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 10 a.m. at Flesher Funeral Chapel in Van Alstyne. Brother Dennis Garner, pastor of Celebration Fellowship Church in Gunter and former pastor of Sedalia Baptist Church and Brother Don Neil of Solid Rock Ministry and one of Janie's former Sunday School students, will officiate. Burial will be in the Van Alstyne Cemetery.

Janie is survived by her eight children, four sons, William Loftice and wife, Neldine of Garland, Charles Loftice and wife, Brenda of Howe, Alfred Loftice and wife, Sharon of Van Alstyne and Richard Loftice and wife, Barby of Van Alstyne; four daughters, Lucy Wheeler and husband, Bill of Howe, Kathleen Reeves of Whitewright, Linda Horton and husband, J.D. of Blue Ridge, and Cheryl Loftice of Van Alstyne; two sisters, Alma Whitley of Denison and Edna McFatridge of Paris; twenty-two grandchildren; thirty-one great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Janie was preceded in death by her husband, Willie, parents, Randal and Sarah Short, her son-in-law, David Reeves, six brothers and three sisters.

The family will be at the funeral chapel from 1-8 p.m. Monday, January 10, 2005 and at other times at the family home in Van Alstyne.