Mary Grace Janes, R.N.
April 24, 2010
Miss Mary Grace Janes, R.N., 88, a lifelong resident of Scranton, went
home to be with the Lord Sunday afternoon while at the Mountain View Care
Center.
She was born in Scranton; her maternal grandparents were early settlers
of the Greenwood section of Moosic. She
was the daughter of the late George and Mary Fassold Janes, a graduate of
Minooka High School, Class of 1941, graduated from Hahnemann Hospital School of
Nursing, Class of 1944, and a graduate of Wilkes University.
She was a member of the Sigma Theta Tau
International, the National Honor Society of Nursing, and the Community Medical
Center Nurses Alumni, where she served as past president.
She was a member of the Community Medical Center Auxiliary and the Wilkes
University Alumni and AARP. She was
a member and Elder of the Moosic Presbyterian Church and a member and past
president of the Utopian Sunday School Class. During
her nursing career she taught obstetrics, worked as head nurse and assistant
director of nursing, at the time of her retirement in 1982, she was the
Associate Director of Nursing at the Community Medical Center.
She was a very kind and loving person whose devotion was to taking care
of her patients. She enjoyed
reading, traveling, attending musicals and plays.
The family would like to thank the staff at Mountain View Care Center for
their wonderful care.
Surviving are her caregivers and cousins, Forrest and his wife Gail Janes;
and Margaret Castles, Scranton.
She was preceded in death by three brothers, Edward, George, Carl, R.N.;
a sister, Louise Janes.
The funeral will be Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Miller Bean Funeral Home,
Inc., 436 Cedar Avenue, with services by the Reverenced Barbara Shaw Jenkins,
Pastor of the Moosic Presbyterian Church and the Langcliffe Presbyterian Church.
Interment will follow in the Pittston
Avenue Cemetery, Scranton.
