Jane Holt "Pinky" Bostwick

Jane Holt Bostwick died July 15, 2024. She was 93.

A memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, July 19, 2024, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church with the Reverend Samantha Smith presiding.

Pinky was born July 7, 1931, in Waco, Texas, to Mary Ruby Steen Holt and Emerson Etheridge Holt. Nicknamed at an early age because her face would become flushed when playing outdoors, Pinky was raised in Waco and graduated from Waco High School. She attended Stephens College and then The University of Texas at Austin, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Shortly after college, Pinky married fellow Wacoan and University of Texas alumnus, Fred Bostwick. Together they moved to Sundown, Texas, and then to Big Spring, Texas, where Pinky taught elementary school. Pinky and Fred returned to Waco in 1954 and made their home in Waco until Fred’s death in 2017.

Pinky was involved in many civic activities, including the Thursday Study Club and Junior League of Waco, and she served on the boards of a number of organizations including Art Center Waco, Evangelia Settlement, and Planned Parenthood. In 1958, she was honored to be selected by leaders in the local business community to travel with Jean McReynolds to Indianapolis to receive the initial gift from the Parrott family to establish the Waco Foundation.

Pinky became a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church after she and Fred married and was an active member serving in many capacities, including as a member of the Vestry and the Altar Guild, for most of her adult life.

Pinky was a curious, gracious woman and she and Fred were blessed with many close, lifelong friends with whom they traveled frequently both domestically and abroad. But Pinky’s two primary passions were family and art. She fished, hunted, sailed, and spent summers horseback riding and hiking with family in Santa Fe and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Throughout her life, Pinky made and studied art. In each of the family’s homes over the years, Pinky had an art studio where she painted, sculpted, and created art in all media. The creative process was essential to her life energy.

Pinky is survived by her sisters, Sue Getterman and Mary Hughson; sons, Rick Bostwick and wife, Melissa, and Andrew Bostwick and wife, Ann; grandchildren, Ellie (Peter) Andres, Doran Bostwick (Adam Wright), Will Bostwick (Rachael Ashley), Katherine (J.R.) Woodall, and Libby (Dustin) Adamek; great-grandchildren Sam and Emmy Andres, Lyle and Holt Wright, Will, Wyatt and Olivia Woodall, and Ellie and Colton Adamek; and daughter-in-law Linda Bostwick.

The family wishes to thank Andrea Arnett, Mona Boicu, and the other wonderful women who lovingly provided in-home care for Pinky during the last eight years of her life.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Art Center Waco, Waco Foundation, or St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

We invite you to leave a message or memory of Pinky on her “Tribute Wall” at www.WHBfamily.com.