Ms. Willie Jane Asbell

Ms. Willie James “Jane” Asbell, age 84 of Chiefland, passed away Tuesday, February 24, 2026. She was born August 13th, 1941 in Camden, South Carolina, to Herbert Clyde Moore and Bertha Estelle Handcock.

Jane was preceded in death by her former husbands James Duke Asbell and John Henry Martin; father and mother; two sisters, Emily Boyer (Jim) and Bertha Reann Rector; six half-brothers, Woodroe, Theodore, John (Beula), Joseph (Anna Mae), Boyd (Kathy), and Harris Collins (Barbara); two half-sisters, Louise Fugate (William) and Betty Holland (Jimmy); and one grandson Ethan Blaine McDaniel.

Jane, who grew up Baptist and later converted to Pentecostal, attended church virtually and supported Jimmy Swaggart Ministries. She considered the dates of her children’s birth to be the three most important days of her life and lists the happiest years of her life as being the years spent in Augusta as a new wife and mother, and later in life, when she lived in Trenton, attending football games with her children, raising them as teenagers, and fellowshipping with her church family. She took pride in being fair and up-front, and for speaking up for what was right. In her later years, her dog, Emily Ann, was her loyal companion. Jane enjoyed gardening, painting, and baking brownies for family and neighbors.

Jane is survived by three daughters, Deborah Lynn Asbell-Sturgeon of Archer, Teresa Alene Barron (Edward) of Chiefland, and Leah Asbell-Blitch (Abraham) of Trenton; two step-children John Henry Martin III and Debra Carlisle (Jeff); ten grandchildren Aubrey (Douglas) Brown, Christopher Barron, John Spaulding (Abigail), Chrystyana Williams, Brittain Williams, Carlo Pascoe, Alexandria Rogers (Colin), Nia Pascoe-Wiencek (James), Edward James Barron, and Levi Blitch (Cheyanne); eighteen great-grandchildren; two nieces that she considered her daughters, Jana Waltz (Stephen) and Kelly Ray-Amos (Randall); and one sister, Mary Gildehaus of Cedar Hill Missouri

Crevasse’s Simple Cremation is honored to serve the Asbell family.