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Submitted: 4/28/21 • Approved: 5/1/21 • Last Updated: 5/4/21 • R414036-G414035-S3
November 15, 1931 - January 26, 2013
*Obituary
Janice J. McDonald Pair, 81, of Lubbock and formerly of Lorenzo, passed away Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, in Lubbock.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. today, Wednesday, Jan. 30, at the First United Methodist Church in Lorenzo with the Rev. Cam Givans and the Rev. Kerry Hurst officiating. Burial will follow in the Lorenzo Cemetery under the care of Adams Funeral Home of Lorenzo.
Janice was born Nov. 15, 1931, in Clarendon to William and Hazel Jefferies McDonald. In 1942, they moved to Plainview. She graduated from Plainview High School in 1949 where she was active in band and drama. She started at Texas Tech that fall as a home economics major. She married Marvin L. Pair of Lorenzo on May 31, 1952, at the First Presbyterian Church in Lubbock. She and Marvin moved to the Pair family farm near Estacado where they farmed cotton and raised Charolais cattle for the next 59 years. Janice was the proud mother of four children, Eileen who preceded her in death in 1981, David, Rosemary and Jeff. In 1972 she graduated from Texas Tech with a bachelor's degree in education, simultaneously with her daughter Eileen graduating from Lorenzo High School, and the birth of her youngest son, Jeff. She taught in Petersburg, and later was director/preschool teacher at the First United Methodist at Lorenzo and Crosbyton. She was a member of the Lorenzo Study Club and the Lorenzo Chamber of Commerce.
Janice is preceded in death by her parents; one son, Charles Pair; her daughter and granddaughter, Eileen and Angela Settle; and her three sisters, Myrne Altendorf, Ruth Kayler and Jeanne Barnes.
She is survived by her husband, Marvin of Lubbock; two sons, David Pair of Colorado, and Jeff Pair and his wife Donna of Lorenzo; one daughter, Rosemary Randell and her husband David of Abilene; six grandchildren, Amy Hajek and husband Dustin, Joseph Randell and wife Ashley, Christopher Randell, Angela Randell, Talon Cacy and wife Marii, and Kayne Cacy and wife Karli; and three great-grandchildren Hudson Hajek, Kayden Cacy and Tanelle Cacy
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