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Jean M. Bostwick

Jean McLean Bostwick, of Lancashire, Brandywine Hundred, age 95, died on October 27. She was born in October of 1929 in Buffalo, NY, to the late Hugh A. McLean and Elizabeth West McLean, and grew up in nearby North Tonawanda, NY.  She was a graduate of the Buffalo Seminary, a girls’ high school, and received an AB degree with concentrations in physiology, chemistry, and German language and literature from Mount Holyoke College in 1952.  She then moved to southern New Jersey where she was employed for thirteen years in technical patent services by the former DuPont Explosives Department at its Eastern Laboratory in Gibbstown.  She subsequently moved to Wilmington, DE, and was employed for 19 years in the Patent Section of the Law Department of the former Hercules Incorporated, where she retired in 1995 as a supervisor of patent services.

She served as a ruling elder and clerk of session in Trinity Presbyterian Church in Wilmington.  In addition to her work in her local church, she was active over the years in New Castle Presbytery in a number of areas, including membership on its Council, Committee on Ministry, and Committee on Preparation for Ministry.  In 2004, she served as a commissioner from New Castle Presbytery to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA).  After her retirement, she took classes offered by the University of Delaware’s Institute of Lifelong Learning and also served on the board of the Council of Civic Organizations of Brandywine Hundred (CCOBH).

Her husband, Joseph Hackett Bostwick, died in January 2002.  She is survived by a son, Donald M. Bostwick, and a granddaughter, Amy J. Bostwick, both of suburban Columbus, OH.  Also surviving is one sister, Margaret M. (Stanley) Caywood of Tampa, FL.

Funeral Services

A memorial service will be held at 12:00 noon on Thursday, November 21, 2024, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 1120 Darley Road, Wilmington, DE  19810, where family and friends may call at 11:30 prior to the service.  Interment in the Trinity Memorial Garden will be private.

If desired, memorial gifts may be made to the Trinity Presbyterian Church’s Memorial Fund (address above) or to the Hagley Museum and Library, PO Box 3630, Wilmington, DE  19807.

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