Pamela Eileen McNabb was born October 30, 1951, to Clayton and Zoe McNabb in Dallas, Texas.
She was preceded in death by her parents, numerous aunts and uncles, husband David, sister Susan Halyburton, and several cousins.
She is survived by sons John David Kliewer and Robert Walker Kliewer, grandchildren Clara Jane Kliewer and Henry Kliewer, and numerous cousins, nieces, and nephews.
She was the middle of 3 sisters: Susan, Pam, and Marilyn. Her Daddy would call her "le two". Ever a people pleaser, her Mother referred to her as her "agreeable child".
All through growing up, she attended East Dallas Christian Church with her family. She sang in choir at church, as well as at school.
Her adventurous spirit and resulting skinned knees and elbows inspired her Daddy to call her "bull of the woods".
Pam graduated from Bryan Adams High School in Dallas in 1969 and went to Texas Tech University, studying pre-nursing. At Tech she met her future husband David Henry Kliewer. They married in January 1971, at East Dallas Christian Church in Dallas. Son John David was born in 1978. Son Robert followed in 1981.
She worked in banking, leaving Texas Commerce Bank to have John. Throughout the 1980s, she was in sitters co-op with other Garland moms. As a mother of 2, she started taking community college courses and then commuted to East Texas State University, earning her bachelor's in elementary education in May 1989.
Pam's faith had always been a major part of her life. In addition to choir, she was active in Sunday School, lay leadership, bible studies, and volunteering at church.
Another central part of Pam's life was family. She had a large extended family that remained tight throughout most of her life and knew all her many aunts and uncles and her cousins.
She was a band mom, active in band boosters while her boys were in band.
After a protracted and trying process of finishing graduate school as a working mom and grieving widow, Pam earned her Master of Education from Texas Woman's University December 1998.
She spent her teaching career in Garland ISD, first as an elementary teacher then as a special education teacher, helping teacher, diagnostician, and facilitator. She worked part-time as a diagnostician in Wylie ISD after retirement.
She was elated to become a grandmother with the birth of Robert's daughter Clara in 2012.
Pam enjoyed travel. Growing up, she went with her family on annual road trips to the Bay Area in California where her Daddy reported for duty as a naval reservist intelligence officer while the rest of her family did things with Uncle Ewing and Aunt Bette and the California cousins. They would also go to Red River, New Mexico, each year.
After marrying David, she loved going to his family's cabin in Rocky Mountain National Park, creating countless fond memories there with his family and her 2 boys. She loved exploring Colorado.
Later in life she enjoyed traveling outside the US to much of Europe and other parts of the world.
Her last few years, particularly her time since November, were marked with declining mobility and health. In true Pam fashion, she made the best of the situation, finding meaning in her hospitalization and rehab by making new friends and deepening her bond with John as he looked after her in her final months.
The service will be live streamed at the following link: www.axeumc.org and follow the "Church UStream Channel" link.
To honor Pam's memory, donations may be made to the following charities in lieu of flowers
Methodist Children’s Home, in Waco
https://www.mch.org
or
Scottish Rite for Children, in Dallas
https://scottishriteforchildren.org