Mary Jane Thomas, 86, died peacefully with family by her side on February 23, 2017, at Heartland Hospice in Wilmington, DE.
She was raised on a farm in Somerset County, PA, graduated from Boswell High School, and worked for the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh PA. In 1950 she married Lee W. Thomas and they moved to Wilmington, DE in 1952. They also lived briefly in Memphis, TN and Kinston, NC during his 33 career with DuPont.
Mary Jane worked as a secretary and for many years as a para-professional in the Marshallton-Mckean/Red Clay School District. She later was employed with DuPont as an administrative assistant.
Mary Jane was active in church women’s circles and choir and was a long time member of Bible Study for Today. She enjoyed gardening, homemaking and vacations at Sea Isle City, NJ.
She will be dearly missed by her family. She is survived by her two daughters, Sharon Leipold and her husband, Walter, and Kathleen Zinn and her husband, Ken; grandchildren, Alan Young (Erin), Emily Y. Dolbow (Harry), Melanie Z. Merritt (Nicholas), and Andrew Zinn (Kate); step-grandchildren, Daniel Leipold (Sarah) and Paul Leipold; and great-grandchildren, Cru, Keegan and Brody Young, Harry Dolbow V, Evelyn and William Dolbow, Lucy and Levi Merritt, and Noah and Theodore Zinn. Also surviving are her sister, Patricia Bihary, and numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband of 62 years, Lee, and her brother George J. Neuhof.
In remembrance of Mary Jane, the family would appreciate contributions to Ebenezer United Methodist Church in lieu of flowers.
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