Jane C. Jennings

Jane C. Jennings, 84 was born on May 21, 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio. She worked as a stenographer at American Steel and Wire in Cleveland where she met her future husband, Dick W. Jennings. They were married on July 3, 1948 and moved to Dover later that year when her husband was hired as Assistant General Manager of Greer Steel Company.

Mrs. Jennings was devoted to her husband, children, and grandchildren. When she was young she dreamed of becoming a fashion designer and used her exceptional talent as a seamstress to sew clothes, quilts and crafts. During the years her children were in high school, she sewed costumes for many of the Dover High School plays and musicals. When her grandchildren were born she sewed quilts, clothing and dolls for them. Today, her patchwork quilts are valued for their originality and quality of workmanship.

Mrs. Jennings loved to play piano, and to garden and cook. She was also an avid reader of historical biographies. A member of St. John's United Church of Christ, she taught Sunday School when her children were young, and she was a past treasurer of the Dover Women's Republican Club.

She was preceded in death by her beloved husband Dick W. Jennings, and she is survived by her two children, James Jennings of Fredericktown, Ohio and Kathleen Bryar of Grafton, Vermont, and three grandchildren, Samuel, Justine and Alexandra Bryar. Two stepchildren, Nancy Eckle of Greenwood, Indiana and Richard L. Jennings of Marina del Rey, California, also survive Mrs. Jennings.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, March 6, at 2:00pm in the Toland-Herzig Funeral Home, Dover with Rev. Steve Daniels officiating. Interment will be in the Dover Burial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home on Wednesday one hour prior to services.

Those unable to attend or wishing to share a fond memory may sign the online register book for Jane by visiting the ''online obituaries'' link on the funeral home's website.

Memorial donations may be made to St. John's United Church of Christ Renovation Fund and/or the Dover Public Library.

Toland-Herzig, Dover
(330) 343-6132
www.tolandherzig.com