Mary Kelley

We are so sorry for the loss of Mary Jane. She was an amazing person who always had interesting perspectives and a very kind heart. May we all cherish her memory.

Please accept my deepest sympathy to John and Claire. I recall hearing about you both as you were growing up while your mother was a doctoral graduate student in Secondary Education at the University of Illinois. Mary Jane was one of my favorite graduate students.

Oh I miss the Bird imitation you used to proudly do at the Whalquists house (Aunt Bobbie, Uncle Kelly and my cousin PJ). Many fun memories that I often recollect! Theresa Carroll

I knew Mary Jane as Sheila's glamorous and wiser older sister when we grew up together in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Sheila and I were good friends from early on so I spent quite a bit of time with the Maybank´s family. You could say that I idolized Mary Jane because she took time to talk to me - a chubby little girl in grade school who could only dream of looking like Mary - tan and beautiful, athletic, with lots of friends, etc. When she saw me at their house, she sincerely wanted me to tell...

Mary Jane was so kind and welcoming to me when I first moved to Champaign. I will always be grateful to her for that...