She mostly lived in Maryland as a child but moved with her mother and brother to San Antonio at the beginning of WWII to be near other military families (her father would soon be reported as missing in action in the Philippines). She graduated from Incarnate Word High School, then went on to the University of Texas at Austin, earning her degree in zoology in three years. While at school, she met and married Henry Grady Hight in 1951....
The Hights moved to Fort Worth in 1954, where she would stay for almost fifty years. She was a bookkeeper, office manager and all-around Girl Friday to a car dealership in Fort Worth for many years. She was remarried to an Air Force Sergeant and the family was stationed in Torrejon Air Force base outside of Madrid, Spain for nearly four years in the mid-60s. They returned to Fort Worth and she went back to work for the dealership, who had missed her terribly.
Upon retirement and at the urging of her son and daughter in law, she moved back to Austin in 2003 to be closer. She worked in her sons home-based bookkeeping business for many years to keep her hand in.
She is proceeded in death by her parents, Lt. Colonel and Mrs. Kirtley Jameson (KJ) Gregg; her brother Kirtley Jameson Gregg, Jr.; her step father Lt. General Barney M. Giles, all of San Antonio; and her late husband Harold Lee Sibert of Fort Worth. She is survived by ....
The family would like to thank the staffs at Legacy Oaks Assisted Living, Brush Country Rehabilitation Center and Heavenly Care caregivers, all of whom earned their pay caring for her. She will be cremated and share a crypt with her beloved Harold at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio. In lieu of flowers, a donation to your local animal shelter would be money well spent.
She mostly lived in Maryland as a child but moved with her mother and brother to San Antonio at the beginning of WWII to be near other military families (her father would soon be reported as missing in action in the Philippines). She graduated from Incarnate Word High School, then went on to the University of Texas at Austin, earning her degree in zoology in three years. While at school, she met and married Henry Grady Hight in 1951....
The Hights moved to Fort Worth in 1954, where she would stay for almost fifty years. She was a bookkeeper, office manager and all-around Girl Friday to a car dealership in Fort Worth for many years. She was remarried to an Air Force Sergeant and the family was stationed in Torrejon Air Force base outside of Madrid, Spain for nearly four years in the mid-60s. They returned to Fort Worth and she went back to work for the dealership, who had missed her terribly.
Upon retirement and at the urging of her son and daughter in law, she moved back to Austin in 2003 to be closer. She worked in her sons home-based bookkeeping business for many years to keep her hand in.
She is proceeded in death by her parents, Lt. Colonel and Mrs. Kirtley Jameson (KJ) Gregg; her brother Kirtley Jameson Gregg, Jr.; her step father Lt. General Barney M. Giles, all of San Antonio; and her late husband Harold Lee Sibert of Fort Worth. She is survived by ....
The family would like to thank the staffs at Legacy Oaks Assisted Living, Brush Country Rehabilitation Center and Heavenly Care caregivers, all of whom earned their pay caring for her. She will be cremated and share a crypt with her beloved Harold at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio. In lieu of flowers, a donation to your local animal shelter would be money well spent.
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