Mary Jean Hahn

We prayed together in the Oak Park neighborhood. She gave our friend her beautiful big house for the family. Generous, compassionate, and friendly.

What a shock to find this obituary for our friend of so many years.Our thoughts go to all of her Behr, Hahn and Castle families and friends.

An amazing human being and role model. I learned so much about her today that I never knew, because she was such a humble person. To me she was just grandma, loving and kind. She was a great mother to my father, my aunt and my uncles. She was also a great mother to her community and a steward of the earth. She was radical, she was passionate, and she will be greatly missed.

What a wonderful and selfless woman was Mary! I will miss her greatly!

I met Mary when I was in the sixth grade. Four Hahns and three Castles joined together, Brady Bunch-style, and Mary became my third mother. Mary was a person of many facets: daughter, student, camper, hiker, friend, wife, activist, and more. But, speaking as someone with a combined total of 150 years of experience with mothers (yes, I did add it up) Mary was, more than anything else, a mother.

She was a mother to Tim, Martha, Daniel, Chris, and myself. Beyond that Herculean...

Grandma Mary was a unique, amazing, and infinitely kind woman that I will miss fiercly.