Jane Etta Lease, 92, passed away on October 20, 2016. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 1957 and was hired to be the first Home Economics teacher at Fort Huachuca. Jane Etta and her second husband, Richard Lease, moved to Bloomington, IN where Richard was an associate professor in Police Science at Indiana University. He helped Dr. Borkenstein perfect the Breathalyzer. Jane Etta taught Special Ed for the Stonebelt Council, high school chemistry, and was a substitute teacher. She received a Master of Science in Elementary Education from Indiana University in 1962. They returned to Arizona in 1963 for Richard to receive his doctorate in Educational Psychology. Jane Etta taught Home Economics at the Williams Air Force Base Accommodation School and worked for ASU Library. She and Richard moved to Las Cruces, NM in 1966. At the University of Denver she earned a second masters in Library Science. She returned to Las Cruces and became a librarian in the Education Division of NMSU. In 2003 she and Richard returned to Mesa, Arizona. She belonged to various Ladies Auxiliaries of her husband's organizations including Faculty Wives Club and NM State University Faculty. Jane was preceded in death by two sisters, her first husband Jackson Edwards and second husband Richard J. Lease. She is survived by four daughters, two stepsons, nine grandchildren and nineteen great grandchildren.