Jane WHITMORE

1927 - 2021

JANE WHITMORE Jane Durdan Logan was born December 16, 1927 in Lindsay to Dr. Hugh Logan 19T22 MB, FRCS, and Phyllis Petrie 19T23; granddaughter of Bessie Durdan and John Logan, a Scottish émigré and dry goods merchant in Niagara Falls; and, Mildred Schaffter and Gordon Petrie 18T93 PharmB, a druggist in Yorkville. She was the oldest of five: Ann, David, Ian and Alexander (surviving, 19T66 MD). A WWII Kingsville Farmerette who walked across the Ambassador Bridge on VJ Day to kiss American soldiers. Following graduation from the University of Toronto in 1949, she attended the Parsons School of Design in NYC where she met John Taylor Whitmore who was at Columbia under the GI Bill. After Jane taught school in Little Britain for a year, they married August 23, 1952 in Bobcaygeon. This began a 67 year career in family and home-making in the same Lockport, NY house while John taught high school English. Family grew with the birth of Ian, Amy, Andrew, Phyllis and Scott. Her winters were taken up with PTA, bridge clubs, Junior Service League, Mother's Club and duplicate bridge, while summers were spent canning and at the Bobcaygeon cottage. From the time their nest emptied, she cared for John who battled cancer while serving as Third Ward Alderman until his death in 1989. Widowhood saw more community involvement - maintaining city flowers, the Kenan Arts Council and Board, the City Bed Tax Committee (tourism), the Canal Museum - that culminated in her receiving Lockport's 2008 Key to the Locks Award. It was also a time of active grandmotherly involvement, including singing her ditties with the piano, operating 'Grammy's Hotel' for all her grandchildren and their Camp Kenan friends, and running Whitmore Family Vacations for her children and grandchildren. This much loved wife, mother and grandmother who always put family first died December 11, 2021, marveling to the end at how old she had become. She is survived by her children; grandchildren: Sarah, Seth (spouse, Sarah Haliburton), and Hannah (Ian and Susan Haig), Jocelyn and John Sherwood (Amy and the late Fielding), Emma (spouse, Chase Doran) and Michael (Andrew and Donna Savino) and Paul, William and Benjamin Tessier (Phyllis and Paul); and great-grandchildren: Logan and Cole Homuth (Sarah and David), and Jacob (John and Katherine Patry). Further details: https://millerfuneralandcremationservices.com/