Marcia Jane Sarber

Marcia Jane Sarber, 73, died peacefully on the early morning hours of November 24, 2022. Jane was born in Anadarko, OK to Mabel Paxton Walker and John Walker on June 13, 1949. Her father was employed as an oilfield surveyor and the family moved multiple times to multiple states.  Jane attended 39 schools in her first six grades. By junior high Jane and her mother settled in Chickasha, Oklahoma where she attended St. Joseph’s Academy, graduating in 1967 as salutatorian. That year she was Chickasha’s “Junior Miss.” She entered OU as a freshmen drama major. In May of 1968 she married Barry Sarber, and the couple began a four-year stint in the USAF. In 1972 she started a 12-year career with Southwestern Bell rising to Security Communications Manager. She returned to college and earned a BS in psychology from Washington University in Saint Louis; moved to Princeton, New Jersey where she earned an MA and began a 25-year career as a licensed School Psychologist and Psychometrist working in Career Development at institutions of higher learning all over Oklahoma. Jane was a past president of Oklahoma College Testing Personnel and a longtime member of the National College Testing Association. Jane was extremely intelligent, kind, generous, loving, and loyal. She was highly respected in both her professional and personal life. She had an amazing sense of humor, a wry quick wit and loved to laugh.

Her interests in politics led her to serve as a Cleveland County Election official for several years. Jane was a longtime member of St. Thomas More University Parish in Norman, OK where she served on the Parish Council and participated in the building fund drive for the new church building and was a great believer in Social Justice. She was an avid sports fan and Sooner supporter. She was a golfer and volunteered at the PGA tournaments held in Oklahoma. She followed the Cardinals and Yankees in baseball, the Thunder in basketball and all professional tennis tournaments. She loved watching the games on television and attended in person whenever possible. Jane was a great recordings collector of movies and TV series and art and enjoyed loaning these to her friends. She loved traveling and did so extensively in both Europe and North America with a companion.

Jane was preceded in death by her parents and is survived by lifelong friends Sammie and Ben Kenyon, their daughter Anne Byrd and her family, Connie Roland her long-time traveling companion, and hosts of friends and colleagues at Moore Norman Career Tech, OU Admissions and Assessment and St. Thomas More University Parish.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.