Ann Duncan

Services for Ann Herring Duncan, 85, of Tyler will be held on Saturday, September 14 at 1:00 at Stewart Family Funeral Home, with the Very Rev. William A. Crary Jr. officiating. Ann passed away Monday, August 19 in Tyler. She was born June 15, 1939, in Kilgore to Maxwell Herring, Sr. and Florine Cooper. She was raised in Kilgore and was a proud graduate of Kilgore High School, where she was Miss KHS, Football and Basketball Queen, Cheerleader, Junior Favorite and President of La Bamba. She always loved and cherished her lifelong Kilgore friends. After high school she attended SMU and was a member of Tri Delta Sorority. She was later involved with the Tyler Area Alumnae Panhellenic Association. An avid golfer in the eighties and nineties, Ann was president of Hollytree Country Club Women’s Golf Association in 1989 and 1990. Ann was a member of First Christian Church. Her faith kept her going until and during her final days. She was a fighter, a relentlessly independent woman who would do anything for those she loved. Ann will always be remembered as the most wonderful and amazing Mom, G-Ma and friend. She will be greatly missed. She worked at Howe-Baker Engineers where she sent many engineers out all over the world. At the request of her Dad, she finally joined the family business, Maxwell Herring Drilling Corporation, where she eventually retired. Maxwell Sr, Max Jr and Ann were part of the heyday of the East Texas oilfields and could be considered the last of the East Texas oil wildcatters. The Herring/Cooper family had a significant impact on education and oil in Tyler, Kilgore and Breckenridge, Texas as early as 1920. Ann was preceded in death by her father, Maxwell Herring, Sr, her mother Florine Cooper Petersen and her brother, Maxwell Herring Jr. She is survived by her only daughter, Leslie Duncan Blake, her son-in-law Jason Blake, her grandsons Trevor and Tristan Blake, her sister-in-law, Margaret Herring and her nieces and nephew. Honorary pallbearers will be Jason Blake, Trevor Blake, Tristan Blake, Robert Herring and Brent Duncan. Private burial for Ann and her Mother Florine Cooper Petersen will be before the service at Rose Hill Cemetery. If you would like to donate in Ann’s memory, please give to the COPD Foundation www.copdfoundation.org or Ninja Paws Rescue www.ninjapawsrescue.org.

Ann Duncan

June 15, 1939 - August 19, 2024