Raymond Lance Jett

April 11, 1929 - January 14, 2018

Funeral services for Raymond Lance Jett, age 88, of Hideaway, Texas are scheduled for 10:30 A.M. Thursday, January 18, 2018 in the Hideaway Lake Community Church with Rev. Paul Garrison officiating. Interment will be held at 11:30 A.M. Friday, January 19, 2018 in the Edgewood Cemetery in Lancaster, Texas with services under the direction of Caudle-Rutledge-Daugherty Funeral Home in Lindale, Texas. Lance died Sunday, January 14, 2018 in a Tyler hospital. He was born in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas on April 11, 1929 to the late Homer Raymond and Mattie Louise (White) Jett and graduated in 1946 from N.R. Cozier Technical High School in Dallas. Lance attended SMU for Business Law class and Arlington State College for mathematics. He married his high school sweetheart, Betty Jean Hudler on April 19, 1947 and spent 36 years together until Betty’s death in April of 1983. A few years later, he married Lillian Ann Miller on August 1, 1986. Lance served in the United States Marine Corp Reserves beginning in 1948, serving active duty August 1, 1950 to February 26, 1952 in 1st Marine Air Wing, Marine Air Group 33, and the Marine Night Fighter Squadron VMF-542 in South Korea during the Korean War. He retired in October 1987 after 31 years working for Rockwell-Collins Radio where he began as a truck driver and retired as an Administrative Manager of a Division of Collins Radio Co. Lance attended Radio Broadcasting Institute in 1950 and had also been employed as a part-time Audio Technician at KRLD AM-FM-TV from 1956-1963. He started guitar lessons at age 6 and began playing the bass fiddle at age 8 and continued to self-teach by listening to Bob Wills records. At age 10, Lance received an invitation from V.O. Stamps to appear with a young girls’ string band on the Stamps Quartet radio show on KRLD in Dallas and a concert in Greenville High School. Mr. Stamps put the girls and Lance through the Stamps Singing School free of charge. Years later while working for KRLD radio and television in Dallas, Texas, he handled the controls for the All-Night Singing Convention at the Sportatorium in Dallas for 6 years at the request of Frank Stamps. Lance became staff bassist for “The Ol’ Camp Meeting Church of the Air Broadcasts” from Bethel Temple on WRR in Dallas for 18 years. He played bass for the Happy Four singing group, was the staff bassist for Sapp Brothers TV programs, session musician for Wills Family TV show on KTVT in Ft. Worth, Texas and part of the Wills Family Quartet and Galileans Singing Group recordings. Lance was the bass player for Dixie Harper Western Swing Band over KCNC in Ft. Worth in 1947, leader and bassist with the Westernaire Trio on KWBC and WBAP-TV in Ft. Worth in 1949, and appeared with Jimmie and Carol Snow Revival Team at Central Assembly of God in Tucson, Arizona in 1964. He also shared his talent as the staff bassist for the Walnut Hill Assembly of God Church (later known as Christian Life Cathedral) in Dallas, Calvary Chapel Assembly of God Church in Richardson, and the Hideaway Lake Community Church in Hideaway. Lance is survived by his loving wife of 31 years, Lillian Ann Jett of Hideaway, Texas; daughters & sons-in-law, Vicki Lynn & Gary Hogan of Weatherford, Texas and Susan Lynn & John Page of Olathe, Kansas; sons & daughters-in-law, Raymond Dwayne Jett of Carrollton, Texas, James Dwight & Lisa Jett of Ft. Worth, Texas and James Arthur & JerryAnn Miller of Huntington, Texas; 9 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. Honorary pallbearers will be Joshua Jett, Blake Jett, Benton Hogan, and Taylor Page. The family will receive friends from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Wednesday, January 17, 2018 at the Caudle-Rutledge-Daugherty Funeral Home in Lindale, Texas. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Music Ministry Department of Hideaway Lake Community Church.