Janet "Jan" Gray

JANET “JAN” GRAY, 67 , of Chester, Illinois, passed away at 8:30 am, Saturday, February 10, 2018 at Integrity Healthcare in Columbia, Illinois.

She was born to Nathaniel Lewis and Dorothy Jean (nee Lochhead) Gray on April 22, 1950 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

She was a member of the First Methodist Church in Chester, Illinois and had worked as a substitute teacher, a teacher’s aide and a caregiver.

Jan attended Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska.

She went to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco more than a dozen times and got to know some of the headliners, like Emmylou Harris and many more of that ilk on a first name basis.  Her mother worked many years for the festival founder Warren Hellman, so Jan sat in front of the same stage (banjo stage) in Golden Gate Park and also had access to the side stage where she met them.

Jan loved her nieces, nephews and their children and she loved to play bingo.

Survivors:
Mother:                   Dorothy Jean Gray
3 Siblings:               Nancy Augustine
Ned Gray
Sally Hauer
Many Nieces and Nephews

Preceded in death by :  Father – Nathaniel Lewis Gray,
Grandfather – Marshall Brown Lochhead, and
Grandmother – Adeline Crittenden Lochhead

Funeral Service :  2:00 pm  Friday, February 16, 2018
Pechacek-McClure Funeral Home, Chester, Illinois

Officiating: Pastor Faye Edmiaston

Interment :          Evergreen Cemetery
Chester, Illinois

Visitation :           Friday, Noon – 2:00 pm
Pechacek-McClure Funeral Home, Chester, Illinois

Memorials: First Methodist Church