Avis de décès de Jane-E. Row - Nécrologie - MesAieux.com

Jane Eager Row, 90, passed away peacefully at her home in Lincoln on May 7 surrounded by family, laughter and song. Jane was born in the dead of winter in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada to Frank Joseph and Florence Davidson Eager. The family returned to roadless Levack Mine in a railway car outfitted for the only child of the nickel mine's superintendent, with a wood stove and rocking chair for mother and child. The trip ignited Jane's lifelong passion for rail travel. Jane was home schooled in remote Levack and developed a love of vegetable gardening, parlor games, hiking and camping in the unspoiled wilderness. When she was seven the Eagers moved to Sudbury, where she and her mother fed hobos from the nearby railroad tracks during the depression, igniting yet another passion. The family moved to nearby Frood Mine where, at age 13, they were paid a visit by the Rows, of Beloiel, Quebec. Jane was impressed enough by the bow and arrow made for her by nine-year-old Ronald to make note of it in her journal. In 1938 Jane was named Ladies Junior Golf Champion of Ontario. She eschewed cart and caddy, carrying her own clubs into her eighties. At 16 Jane enrolled in Smith College, earning a BA with honors in 1943. Her roommate, Claire Cunningham, later introduced Jane to Lincoln, her home for 59 years. Following her father's death, Jane and her mother moved to Belmont and Jane worked as a "computer" for the war effort at Harvard's Underwater Sound Lab. After a post war trip to England, during which her appendix was removed mid-Atlantic, she enrolled in courses at Harvard where she earned an MA in 1949. Her delayed arrival paired her with a willing physics lab partner who caught her up in her classwork, wooed her and married her in 1952; her nine-year-old bow and arrow maker Ronald Row.Jane taught chemistry and math at Concord Academy until the improprieties of family intervened. She sang with the Concord Chorus and played flute and recorder with "The Tootlers," a group of CA faculty with whom she remained fast friends. In 1953 she and Ron bought a 19th Century farmhouse badly in need of repair on Old Concord Road in Lincoln. In 1959 they moved with three young daughters to an 18th Century farmhouse in even greater need of repair on Tower Road. There they raised five children and two grandchildren, bumper crops of vegetables and maple syrup and several generations of goats and golden retrievers. Jane taught math at the Fenn School and Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School, orchestrated Tower Road Christmas caroling, was a League of Women Voters volunteer, a Girl Scout leader, a METCO and student exchange host and taught English as a second language to MIT wives. She made sandwiches for Rosie's Place in Boston until shortly before her death. Ever curious, creative and energetic, she and Ron instilled in their children a love for hiking, camping, canoeing, skiing, skating, singing, sailing, swimming, sewing, knitting and crossword puzzles.Jane is survived by her husband of almost 61 years, Ronald, of Lincoln; their children Katherine, of Malibu, CA; Elizabeth of Arlington, VA; Mary (Winston) Gravely of Richmond; Frank (Deedee) of North Reading; Gordon (Leslie) of Groton; grandchildren Heather and Ronnie Otero of Boston and Malibu; Jennings and Jake Spangle of Los Angeles and San Francisco; Kelsey and Delaney of North Reading; Harrison and Eva Gravely of Richmond; and Tristan and Georgia of Groton. We are blessed to have been a part of her most remarkable life. Visiting hours will be held on Friday, May 17th from 4 to 8 PM in the Dee Funeral Home, 27 Bedford Street, Concord Center. Funeral service will be held on Saturday, May 18th at 10 AM in St. Anne's in-the-Fields Episcopal Church, 147 Concord Road, Lincoln followed by a burial in Lincoln Cemetery. Contributions in her memory may be made to The Friends of the Lincoln Council on Aging, Inc., P. O. Box 15, Lincoln, MA 01773. Arrangements are under the care of Susan M. Dee and Charles W. Dee, Jr., Dee Funeral Home of Concord. To share a remembrance in Mrs. Row's guest book, visit www.deefuneralhome.com.