August 26, 2005: Headlines: COS - Micronesia: Obituaries: Dallas Morning News: Micronesia RPCV Jane Carroll Flanagin Grant dies at 85
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August 26, 2005: Headlines: COS - Micronesia: Obituaries: Dallas Morning News: Micronesia RPCV Jane Carroll Flanagin Grant dies at 85
Micronesia RPCV Jane Carroll Flanagin Grant dies at 85
In 1986, Mrs. Grant joined the Peace Corps and was assigned as an agricultural consultant in Kosrae, Micronesia, where she served for about 2 ½ years. She would have stayed longer but became ill and needed treatment at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Micronesia RPCV Jane Carroll Flanagin Grant dies at 85
JANE CARROLL FLANAGIN GRANT
12:00 AM CDT on Friday, August 26, 2005
By JOE SIMNACHER / The Dallas Morning News
Jane Carroll Flanagin Grant joined the Army during World War II to see the world.
In July 1944, she was called to active duty as an Army second lieutenant. She served as a physical therapist in the China Burma India Theater. She not only circled the globe, but rode on the back of an elephant during a tiger hunt in India and gave a massage to Madame Chiang Kai-shek while stationed in China.
Mrs. Grant, 85, died Tuesday of natural causes in a Grapevine retirement facility.
Services will be at 1 p.m. today at First Baptist Church of Grapevine, 301 E. Texas St. Her ashes will be entombed at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery.
Despite the adventures she experienced in her life, she lived in a quiet, unassuming way, said her son, David Grant of Rogers, Ark.
"She did all kinds of things and was just very unassuming, but totally competent, dedicated and ready to go," her son said.
Born in Dallas, Ms. Grant was a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School. Her father, Oliver C. Flanagin, was a dyed-in-the-wool Texan who didn't want to leave the state, even for a vacation.
She attended Texas State College for Women, now Texas Woman's University in Denton. She received a bachelor's degree in physical education from the University of Texas at Austin in 1942.
Mrs. Grant trained as a physical therapist at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. She began her world tour in Idaho, where she was assigned to the 172nd Army field hospital unit.
The group went to Miami, flew to north Africa and traveled to India, where it set up operations.
After serving in India, the hospital unit flew across the Himalayas into China, where it was based until war's end. It then shipped out to San Francisco.
After her military service, she earned a master's degree in education from Columbia University.
While at Columbia, Mrs. Grant met her husband-to-be, Andrew G. Grant. They married in August 1948.
He was a school band director and musical instrument salesman. She became an elementary and junior high school physical education teacher.
They taught in a number of communities across Texas and the nation, including Henderson, Longview, Greggton and Farmers Branch in Texas, as well as Vashon Island, Wash.; Tulsa, Okla.; and Edwardsburg, Mich.
The couple returned to Dallas about 1980. Mr. Grant died in 1985.
In 1986, Mrs. Grant joined the Peace Corps and was assigned as an agricultural consultant in Kosrae, Micronesia, where she served for about 2 ½ years. She would have stayed longer but became ill and needed treatment at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Mrs. Grant was an active member of the China Burma India Veterans Association and a past commander of the group's Dallas chapter.
She was also active with the Grapevine Senior Citizens Center and the Red Hat Society.
In addition to her son, Mrs. Grant is survived by two other sons, Jonas Grant of Grapevine and Thomas Grant of Austin; a sister, Kathryne Geisert of El Paso; and two grandchildren.
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