Mary Janet DeJaynes' Obituary
Mary Janet Veith DeJaynes Oct 14, 2016
Mary Janet Veith DeJaynes was born at home on Main Street in Mt. Sterling, IL, one of five children, to Dan & Ida Veith. She died at home in Tucson in hospice care at the age of 80 on October 12, 2016 from pulmonary complications. She is survived by her husband of 61 years, Hubert Dale DeJaynes of Kellerville, IL, daughter Margo Jean & son David Allen DeJaynes and their spouses, twin sister Jean Gross, in-laws, cousins, nieces and nephews. She is predeceased by her parents Daniel Aloysius Veith and Ida Agnes Koch Veith, sisters Gladys Plunk and Veneta Nuessen, and brother Dan Veith.
Jan was a devout Roman Catholic woman, a USMC wife, a loving mother and mother-in-law, sister and aunt; she was a St. Mary’s Academy graduate. After marriage to a young Marine, they were stationed on the coasts of Florida and North Carolina. She would be a single parent while Hubert did tours in Viet Nam and Okinawa.
In her life she had been a pancake house waitress, a lingerie sales lady, a wedding cake maker and business woman, a religion teacher to Native American children at the Pascua Yaqui reservation, a Swap-Meeter, a slipper-knitter, an awesome cook. She’d make curtains or pillows for your new house, bring you a plate or pot of soup when you were sick, and many cakes or pies to the church Fiesta. She stepped in to give extensive end-of-life care to two elderly friends when it was needed. She lived her Faith, and put love into action!
She made pilgrimages to the Holy Land of Christ, the Holy City of Rome, the shrines of Lourdes in France, and Fatima in Portugal; she traveled with friends to Hawaii. Annually the family traveled “home” to Illinois on leave.
She was grace, poise and vivaciousness, and a youthfulness even at 80. Hope in disappointment, fortitude in disillusionment; sincere kindness, fun and strength and wisdom and humility. She was a class act!
Her Funeral Mass at Our Lady of Fatima Church in Tucson, and she was interred at Holy Hope Cemetery on October 18, 2016.
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