NANCY P’POOL REDDING
1928-2017
Nancy Elizabeth P’Pool Redding passed away peacefully at Methodist Hospital on the 15th of December 2017, with loving family by her side. The beloved mother and grandmother was known to all simply as Nana. She was born in Waco, Texas to Raymond Clinton and Haloise Herring P’Pool on the 20th of January 1928, and then moved to Houston at a young age.
Nancy attended Lanier Junior High and Lamar High School, where she was a member of the school’s third graduating class. It gave her great pleasure that her children and grandchildren also attended and graduated from Lamar. She attended Baylor University, was a member of Alpha Omega Sorority, Phi Gamma Nu, a professional commerce sorority and Sigma Tau Delta, a professional English fraternity. In 1949, she graduated with a degree in Business Administration. Nancy went on to wed her college sweetheart, Jack T. Redding, and they were married for 53 years until his passing in 2004.
After a few years teaching school, Nancy took on her greatest role as mother to her three sons Bob, Ray and Rick. A member of Second Baptist Church, Nancy’s life was one of faith, family and friends. She was devoted to caring for her parents, husband and children through the years and maintained many lifelong friendships. A member of the Junior League of Houston for over 50 years, she was an avid baker and gardener, accomplished at needlepoint and an especially loyal fan of baseball, most notably little league games played by her sons and grandson.
Nana is survived by her three sons and their wives: Robert and Gloria Redding, of Corpus Christi, Raymond Sr. and Annie Redding of Houston and Richard and Susan Redding of Houston, as well as three adored grandchildren, Haloise Hudson Redding, Raymond P’Pool Redding Jr. and his wife Sydney Ackerley Redding and Rachel Camille Redding.
Friends are cordially invited to gather with the family and share remembrances of Nancy, during a visitation from half-past three o’clock in the afternoon until half-past six o’clock in the evening on Monday, the 18th of December 2017, in the parlor of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons Funeral Directors, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
A funeral service will be conducted at ten o’clock in the morning on Tuesday, the 19th of December 2017, in the Hankamer Chapel of Second Baptist Church, 6400 Woodway Drive in Houston where Rev. Ryan Vinzant is to officiate.
A private family entombment will take place in Memorial Mission Mausoleum at Forest Park Westheimer Cemetery in Houston.
In lieu of customary remembrances, the family request memorial contributions in honor of Nancy be directed to Star of Hope Mission, 4848 Loop Central Dr., Suite 500 Houston, TX 77081 or online at www. sohmission.org.
Please view Nancy’s online memorial tribute at www. geohlewis.com under the obituaries section.