Barbara Ann Nay (neé Debner) of Buda, Texas, fell asleep in the Lord on July 8, 2024. She was a gift to all who knew her and will be profoundly missed.

Barbara was born on October 4, 1953, at Fort Polk, Vernon Parish, Louisiana, to Donald and Helen Debner, the first of the couple’s nine children. The young Debner family originally settled in San Antonio, before relocating to nearby Castroville, where Barbara graduated from Medina Valley High School in 1972. She attended Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio before transferring to the University of Texas, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in education in 1975. At UT Barbara met her husband-to-be, James Nay. On January 10, 1976, Barbara and Jim were married at her hometown parish of St. Louis Catholic Church.

In June of 1977 Jim and Barbara left Austin for Odessa, Texas, where she became a mother of four, a Girl Scout troop leader, a volunteer at her children’s schools, a CCD teacher, secretary, and choir member at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, and a member of the Midland-Odessa Symphony Chorale and the Allegro Chorale. She taught for two years at St. Mary’s Central Catholic School, and then nine years more at Reagan Elementary School.

In 2014 Barbara and Jim moved to Buda, Texas, to be near family. Barbara is survived by her husband, James Nay, and their children and grandchildren: Chris Nay, and his wife Amy; Shaela Rutherford, her husband Bryan, and their children Naomi and Ena; Marianne Hahr, her husband Jonah, and their children Ezra, Eugene, Jerome, Nina, Edith and Emmanuel; and Kyle Nay. Additionally, she is survived by her dear sisters and brothers, Maureen, Michael, Thomas, John, Stephen, Patrick, William and Jennifer and her many nieces, nephews, and cousins.