Jane Ayer Scott

SCOTT, Jane Ayer Of West Newton died October 1, following a long illness. Born in Morenci, Arizona on February 12, 1932, she spent her early years in Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) where her father, Frank Ashton Ayer managed the Rhone Antelope copper mines. Returning to the United States in 1940, with her mother, Harriet Root Ayer, and her father, she lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland and Pelham, New York. After first attending the Pelham High School she graduated from the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She received her A.B. degree from Radcliffe College in 1954. Following college Jane Scott held several positions at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge , culminating in the post of Executive Director and Head of Publications for the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, from which she retired in 1995. She is survived by her husband of 56 years, Wellington Friend Scott, their daughters, Katherine Harriet , of Cambridge, Hillary Carter , of Durham, New Hampshire, Tamson Elizabeth and her husband, Drew Matthew Pierce, of Concord, her brother, Frank Root Ayer and his wife, Harriet, of Green Valley, Arizona, her sister-in-law Elizabeth Ayer, widow of her late brother, George Weston Ayer , her grandchildren, Jonah Scott Pierce, Elizabeth Xu DuJiao Scott, and Levi Lang Pierce, her cousin, Elizabeth Irwin Gordon, her nephews, Michael Ayer, Richard Ayer , David Ayer, Kimball Ayer and their children; and her husband's cousins, Elizabeth Friend Scott and Edward Powell Scott, as well as their spouses and children. A memorial service will be held at Grace Episcopal Church in Newton Corner on Saturday, October 11, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, c/o Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.