Jane Albright.
(Courtesy of Farrar Funeral Home.)
We’re grieving the recent loss of one of our best friends and most generous early supporters, Jane Albright. A career educator, she worked for Carson Newman University, where she was a librarian and taught information science for many years in the 1970s and ‘80s. But she was active in Knoxville as well, on a team producing documentaries about history and literature for community television. In later life she lived in downtown Knoxville, the most elegant of the early residents of Marble Alley. A Renaissance Woman who was an expert on flowers but also learned to refurbish computers, she was the lovely, lively lady in her 90s who sometimes walked over to our presentations at Maple Hall. We were gratified that she liked what we did, and her generous contributions, in the early days when our nonprofit was new, with no guaranteed future, played a major role in keeping us alive, when even some of our board members were skeptical of that prospect. She often traveled with her photographer daughter, Marilyn Roofner, and moved with her to Florida about four years ago. We’ll miss you, Jane.
~J.N. November 2025
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