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Kelly Deadmon
August 15, 2024
Jane was truly a special soul. She was our trusted therapist for many years and helped to save our marriage. My husband, Victor and I loved her. I am so sorry for her family and friends.
Martin Spinelli
May 2, 2024
Jane was exceptional in many ways: uplifting, thoughtful, mischievous, and creative. We had some wonderful times together, and I miss her good company-even if it were only a phone conversation something fine transpired. During one of my own rough times, she would offer her house for a weekend even if she could not be there. So, I will always be grateful for her friendship and mourn the loss of her special character.
Tom McCauley
March 19, 2024
I met Jane through Dan Moriarty over twenty years ago. We became friends quickly. We just got each other. Jane was funny, compassionate and loyal. Jane was a great help and support to me when I lost my partner. Jane was one of the kindness people I have ever met. She was a sterling lady! Jane was a gift to all of us!
Joan Asher
March 17, 2024
Jane did some interior design work for me around 1981. I have been so happy with what she did. I thought I would update a few things and was saddened to find that she is no longer with us on this earth. I wish that I had had a chance to tell her how much I have enjoyed what she did so I am passing this on to her family and friends who might read it so they may know how much her talent is appreciated by one relatively small client.
Michael Hillmann
March 5, 2024
The minute I heard that Bonnie was in hospice care at her Manhattan apartment, I e-mailed her nephew Michael a letter for her, which she may or may not have seen. A week later, then in possession of her new (to me) address, I sent her another version of that letter. The NYT obituary let me know that that letter got to her too late. I hadn´t seen Bonnie since the late 1980s and knew her well only in college summers in Cape May between 1960 and 1964. But I´ve thought about Bonnie often, no, more than often, since those years. We had sailed some. We watched the sun set often and the sun rise occasionally. We drank early evening draft beers at The Tarpon and last call beers at The Marina bars and played shuffleboard at the former. We ate out some. We mostly talked, I can´t remember now about what, other than about ourselves. We talked while we walked on the sand to and from Howard Street and Queen Street beaches or while standing waist deep in water paying little attention to the next wave that might knock us over. We talked some late in the evenings in the lobby at The Chalfonte Hotel where I worked or at her family´s cottage. In short, we CapeMayed it, acceding to the rhythm of easy-on-the eye architecture, the unhurried days, barefoot lots of the time-I don´t think sandals were in then-leaving faster times and louder music to nearby Wildwood, although Fats Domino and Chubby Checker at The Martinique there were exceptions. We wrote each other during the school years, she from Philadelphia and I from Baltimore and then from Omaha. I was in love with her. Who wouldn´t have been with quick-on-the-uptake, articulate, composed and bubbly, soft-spoken, romantic, and beautiful Bonnie? Whatever personal and social and emotional qualities I have as an octogenarian, some of them surely draw from my time in her company. For example, Bonnie did for me what The Bell Jar (1963), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970), "The Personal Is Political" (1970), and No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (1973) can have done for other young men of my generation who didn´t have a Bonnie O´Keefe in their lives. That is to say, in those heady 1960s, she was a one-woman women´s movement in her everyday behavior. And her early art which she sent me examples of! I treasured it, but couldn´t find any of it when I came back to the States several years later. My mother and brother Jim, both artists, had put everything on their walls! My condolences to Bonnie´s brothers and spouses, half-sister, nieces and nephews, and friends lucky enough to be her friends in the NYC two-thirds+ of her full life.
Brian Crowley
March 4, 2024
I met Jane years ago through a friend and she was amiable and real in nature at the same time, she would say it like it is and being were both Irish we knew how to be ourselves in our company, i went to her house in clinton corners and we would sit on the porch to talk and laugh and enjoy her home. May she rest in peace and be creative in heaven....with her long red scarf fashionably flowing....
Aditi Dhruv
March 3, 2024
I will always remember her way of pulling up a chair and saying "Have a seat, Doll." that made you feel her warmth and genuine friendship enveloping you. I miss you, Jane.
Jenny Cupp
March 3, 2024
What a beautiful amazing life ! She left a stamp on the of many .. lifting up all of those whose heart and life she touched
Sean O´Keefe
March 3, 2024
The memory that keeps coming to mind is when you would host us nieces and nephews. You had a street stop light in your home and as a kid, it brought tremendous joy. In the last 2 years, we were the closest we had ever been. What a joy and privilege our phone conversations were, as you helped and encouraged me work through a difficult period in my life - all with unconditional love and support. I have always admired your ability to be authentically yourself, no matter the audience or company.
Aunt Bonnie, the best Godmother a guy could ask for, thank you ¨ .
Love always,
Sean
Grace and Dan Foltz
March 3, 2024
Sleep in peace Jane. Earth will miss all your contributions! You are special. Sleep in Peace
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