Introduction

Biography

Jane was the daugh­ter of Al­bert G. Park­er and Ka­tha­rine Mc­Afee, and wife of Will­iam Al­fred Hu­ber (mar­ried 1947).

Her par­ents were Pres­by­ter­ian mis­sion­ar­ies in Ch­ina. In 1928, the fa­mi­ly re­turned to Am­eri­ca, and in 1929 moved to Ha­no­ver, In­di­ana, when her fa­ther be­came pre­si­dent of Ha­no­ver Col­lege.

Jane gra­du­at­ed in 1944 from the North­field School for Girls in Mas­sa­chu­setts. Af­ter three years at Wel­les­ley Col­lege, she re­turned to Ha­no­ver and gra­du­at­ed from Ha­no­ver Col­lege in 1948. In 1988, Ha­no­ver Col­lege con­ferred a Doc­tor of Hu­mane Let­ters on her.

In Au­gust 1948, she and her hus­band moved to Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois. Af­ter her hus­band’s se­mi­na­ry train­ing, they lived in No­bles­ville, In­di­ana, serv­ing the No­bles­ville Pres­by­ter­ian Church for three years.

They moved to In­di­an­apo­lis, In­di­ana, in 1955. The new con­gre­ga­tion and church school class­es met in their manse home the first year while the church was be­ing built.

Huber served on se­ver­al com­mit­tees and coun­cils of the Pres­by­ter­ian Church (USA), was vice pre­si­dent of the Unit­ed Pres­by­ter­ian Wo­men (1973–76), and served on the Na­tion­al Ex­ec­utive Com­mit­tee.

She was al­so on the Coun­cil on Wo­men and the Church, chair­ing that bo­dy for three years. She was on the Ge­ne­ral As­sem­bly Mis­sion Coun­cil, the Ad­vis­ory Coun­cil on Dis­ci­ple­ship and Wor­ship, the Joint Com­mit­tee on Wo­men, lead­ing up to Pres­by­ter­ian re­un­ion in 1983.

Following re­un­ion, she served on the Ge­ne­ral As­semb­ly Coun­cil for six years, and on the Com­mittee for a New Hymn­book

She re­ceived se­ver­al hon­ors from the Pres­by­ter­ian Church and was named a Val­iant Wo­man by Church Wo­men Unit­ed in their Ju­bi­lee Year.

Works

Starting in 1976, Hu­ber wrote new hymns, most­ly set to fa­mil­iar hymn tunes. Two books with ov­er 125 of her hymns were pub­lish­ed in 1987 and 1996. Ele­ven hymns made their way in­to the Pres­by­ter­ian hymnal pub­lished in 1990.

She al­so wrote stu­dies for These Days and ar­ti­cles for Ho­ri­zons ma­ga­zine, and a col­umn ti­tled Ask Jane for that pub­li­ca­tion for se­ver­al years.