While in Laurel, she joined the Laurel Christian Fellowship and then later she became a
member of Immanuel’s Church. As a member of Immanuel’s Church she participated and
volunteered in many of Immanuel’s community groups and organizations. She even traveled
to the Holy Land with Immanuel’s church and upon returning would enthusiastically express
how she loved walking in Jesus’ steps. This trip helped her to become passionate about her
family and God and emboldened her to witness her faith more fully to almost everyone she
met. When she saw someone she did not know she saw them as an opportunity to tell them
about Jesus.
As a lover of life, she was passionate about her health and would shop at the local health
food store instead of at the grocery store. In 1997, while walking outside her town house,
one of the Bradford Pear trees lost its limb and crushed Jane as she walked under the tree.
This accident could have
ended her life then, but
because of her will to live,
she made it through the
therapeutic sessions and
within a year recovered
her health and started
once again actively living
her Jesus-filled life. One
would never have known
that she had gone through so much from this accident. As a way to witness her faith, she
carried photographs of not only her family but of herself in the hospital as she recovered
from the accident as a witness to God’s healing powers.
While living in Laurel, in addition to her many volunteer activities, she worked for the National
Science Foundation in downtown Washington DC and then with Arbitron Inc. in Laurel, Md.
Most recently after suffering a mild seizure she started convelescing at her daughter Amy’s
house so that she could regain her strength. Sadly however, she was recently diagnosed with
bladder cancer and was treated at the Baltimore Washington Medical
Center where she realized complications from the procedure in the
form of a septic infection. The infection became so serious it moved to
her lungs which caused her to develop a very serious form of pneumonia
which her body was not able to overcome on Earth but has undoubtedly
been completely healed in Heaven. Her family knows without a doubt
that she is joyously praising our Father in Heaven alongside her parents,
her two brothers, her Aunt Helen and all her Christian friends who
have gone before her.