Jane Moore Cambias

Mary Jane Moore Cambias

(August 1, 1943 – June 17, 2015)

Mary Jane Moore Cambias passed away Wednesday, June 17 after a long and courageous battle with Parkinson’s Disease. Jane was born the second of five children to Jim and Midge Moore in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. She graduated from Lawrence County High School in 1961 where she was crowned Miss Law-Co-Hi her senior year. After attending Mississippi State College for Women for a year, she graduated from Western Kentucky University in 1965 where she was president of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. She moved to Atlanta where she taught middle and high school in the Dekalb County School System. She retired from teaching after having her first of three children. While her children were in school, Jane was highly involved at their schools: Christ the King School, Marist School and Woodward Academy. She was a long time member of the Cathedral of Christ the King where she served as co-chair of the Cathedral’s 50th Anniversary Jubilee Celebration. Jane’s true gift was in entertaining where she welcomed friends and family into her home on a regular basis. There was never a party that she did not tackle with ease and no one seemed to enjoy themselves more than Jane.

Jane is survived by daughter Kelly and son-in-law David Miles, son Timothy J. Cambias, Jr., daughter Katie and son-in-law Matt Morgan. Grandchildren Sarah Jane, Patrick and Charlie Miles and Carter and Timothy Morgan, and former husband Timothy J. Cambias, Sr., all of Atlanta. Brother and sister-in-law James Y. and Gail Moore of Lawrenceburg, TN. Sister and brothers-in-law, Diane and Jim Cone, Susie and Daniel Wilson, all of Lawrenceburg, TN, and Molly and Nathaniel Mann of Viola, TN. She is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews, sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, all of whom she loved dearly.

The family will be forever indebted to the incredible and tireless love given to Jane by her caregivers. Thank you Phyllis Gardner, Soporia Boyd, Marrisa Rodriguez and Britany Barnes for all your love and support.

A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at the Cathedral of Christ the King on Monday, June 22 at 10 am. The family will receive visitors on Sunday, June 21 from 4-6 pm at H.M. Patterson & Son-Oglethorpe Hill Chapel. Memorial contributions can be made to Marist School, 3790 Ashford Dunwoody Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30319 or The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.