Southlake - Janet Colleen Stewart, 91, a retired teacher, died September 24, 2025 in Southlake,Texas. 
Colleen was born June 20, 1934 In Tyler, Texas and lived in New London, Texas, Silver,
Texas, and graduated from high school in Colorado City, Texas where she was very active in
the music program. She then moved with her family to Snyder, Texas where she lived until
attending TCU on a music scholarship and majored in English and Speech. She was the head majorette for the Horned Frog Band and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1956. She loved her Horned Frogs her entire
life as well as the many friends she made there. After graduating from TCU, she taught middle
school speech and English in FWISD and Snyder ISD where she met her future husband, James H. Stewart, Jr.
in 1957.
They married on November 26, 1958 and attended the TCU/SMU game at the Cotton Bowl for
their honeymoon. Colleen left her teaching job when their two sons, Bryan and Wade, were born
and spoiled the entire family with her delicious homemade cooking and baking.
She was active in the Etta Newby Woman’s Club of Fort Worth, Women of Rotary, served as
President of the Friends of the TCU Library Board, and was the founding First Lady of UT Tyler where her husband was the founding president.
She and her husband travelled extensively throughout her life and were able to travel to all
seven continents. She was also a member of White’s Chapel Methodist Church in Southlake,
Texas.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Francis and Adam Sole, her brother Chester and
her sister Jackie. She is survived by her husband, Dr. James H. Stewart, Jr., her sister Adaleen
Makin, her niece, Paula Sadler, her sons Dr. Gregory Bryan Stewart (Krisanne) and Bradley Wade Stewart, and her two grandchildren
Blake Austin Stewart and Cassidy Elizabeth Stewart. She will be buried in the family plot at the historic
Acton Cemetery in Hood County, Texas.