Jane and Fred Bryans were very close friends of Dr. Molly Towell. Jane was instrumental in helping Molly establish the Molly Towell Perinatal Research Foundation prior to her untimely death in 1989. Jane’s interest and support continued for 36 years from 1988 as a Member of the Foundation’s Board of Directors until her death in October 2024. During these years, she influenced every aspect of the Foundation's activities – research topics, identification of Award recipients, prudent fiscal investment of Molly's legacy, and focusing the Foundation’s activities using her knowledge of Molly's vision. She was, in every way, the “corporate memory “of the Foundation. Jane always had high expectations for those people around her, and even higher expectations of herself. She was exacting, disciplined, determined, and scientifically inquisitive which were important characteristics for which the MTPRF Board benefited.

Jane and Fred were married in 1975. Dr. Fred Bryans was, at the time, the Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of British Columbia, a position which he held for almost 20 years. Fred passed away in 2009 and is remembered as a mentor for hundreds of physicians and an outstanding role model for aspiring Obstetrician/Gynecologists.