My grandmother, Olyse Camp Kane, passed away a few weeks ago. She was the daughter of Cliff Camp and Grace Lewis and the granddaughter of John Thomas Camp (1843-1889) and Margaret Jane Clement (1844-1912).

I am posting her obituary for any distant relatives who might be interested.

Olyse Camp Kane, age 89 of Dodson, died Thursday, October 23, 2014 in Wellington.

Funeral services were October 28 at 10 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Wellington with the Rev. Gene Weinette, pastor, officiating. Burial was in Dodson Cemetery. Arrangements were by Collins, Johnson & Thornberry Funeral Directors.

Pallbearers included Payton Kane, Shane Jones, Brian Kane, Luke Kane, Lance Kane, Chad Kane, Matthew Bell and B.J. Waters.

Irma Olyse Camp was born at home on February 13, 1925 in the Kelley Community of Collingsworth County, one and a half miles northwest of Dodson. Her parents, Clifford C. Camp and Grace Isabelle Lewis, were both members of pioneering Collingsworth County families.

Olyse attended grade school at Kelley, Quemado, Texas, East Ward in Wellington and at Dodsonville. She graduated from Wellington High School in 1942.

Following high school Olyse moved to Lubbock where she enrolled in Draughon’s Business College. During World War II she worked at the Pampa Army Airfield and later Texas Oil Company.

It was during this time that she began corresponding by mail with Pvt. Arthur Kane. He was stationed in Okinawa, Japan with Olyse’s cousin, Carthel Lewis. Thinking Art and Olyse would make a good pair, Carthel suggested they exchange addresses. The couple corresponded throughout Art’s deployment and he came to visit her on leave. In June 1947, Art invited her to meet his family in Michigan. They were married on June 18, 1947 at the Methodist parsonage in Hudson, Mich.

The couple soon made their home four miles east of Dodson. They had three sons, Rodney, Larry and Stephen. In 1957 they moved to the Arlie Community before building a house one and a half miles south of Dodson in 1964. During the 1960s Olyse worked for Jameson Aero-Ag and later on, for Dodson Co-op keeping books during the cotton ginning season.

Olyse was a member of First United Methodist Church in Wellington where she faithfully served on the board and was a member of the choir. She was a member of the Lydia Circle of the United Methodist Women, the Collingsworth County Art League and the Collingsworth County Museum. Her hobbies included playing piano, painting, quilting, buying and selling antiques and entertaining her grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Cliff and Grace Camp; a sister, Evelyn Carter; and a great granddaughter, Chloe Elise Kane.

Survivors include her husband of 67 years, Arthur Kane of Dodson; her twin sister, Odessa Camp Covey of Wellington; three sons and their wives, Rodney and Mary Lou Kane, Larry and Debbie Kane and Steve and Teresa Kane, all of Dodson; eight grandchildren, Tracey Bell of Wellington, Landey Waters and husband B.J. of Dodson, Brian Kane and wife Marnie of Dodson, Luke Kane and wife Amanda of Amarillo, Chad Kane and wife Christy of Wellington, Shane Jones and wife Jennifer of Wellington, Lance Kane and wife Deidre of Dodson and Payton G. Kane of San Antonio; 19 great grandchildren, Matthew and Kacey Bell, Madison, Briley and Kane Waters, Emma and Madeleine Kane, Luke, Carson and Hartley Kane, Conner, Callen and Claire Kane, Jackson and Ryder Jones, Kyla, Presley, Taytum and Kaesyn Kane; a brother-in-law, Melvin Kane of Tipton, Mich.; a sister-in-law, Mary Jane Ruskowsky of Deltona, Fla.; 24 nieces and nephews; and numerous cousins.

The family requests memorials be made to the First United Methodist Church, PO Box 767, Wellington, TX 79095 or Bluebonnet Home Health and Hospice, 807 West Avenue, Wellington, TX 79095.