Dallas philanthropist Nancy Blackburn Hamon died today at the age of 92.

As an art patron and Dallas civic leader, Hamon was a major donor to the Dallas Opera House, Dallas Zoological Society, SMU, the Dallas Museum of Art and many other cultural organizations in Dallas.

Both SMU’s Hamon Arts Library and the Nancy B. Hamon Education and Recital Hall at the Winspear Opera House were named in honor of her.

Born in San Antonio, Hamon attended the University of Texas at Austin. In 1949 she married Jake Hamon, the owner of Hamon Operating Company, an oil and gas company, and moved to Dallas.

She became the president of the company after her husband died in 1985. Hamon served on the executive board of SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts and received an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from SMU in 2000.

Hamon’s benevolence extended to San Francisco, where she had a second home. She funded the Herb Caen Center at the San Francisco Main Library and California Pacific’s J. David Enright IV Medical Education Conference room.

Funeral information has not yet been released.