Dayhoff Soundtrack: Jane Greenwood Stephan, office manager at Westminster and North Carroll High Schools, 89, of Westminster

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Jane Greenwood Stephan, office manager at Westminster and North Carroll High Schools, 89, of Westminster

Jane Stephan Office manager at Westminster and North Carroll High Schools

March 21, 2014 http://westminster.patch.com/groups/kevin-e-dayhoffs-blog/p/jane-greenwood-stephan-office-manager-at-westminster-and-north-carroll-high-schools-89-of-westminster

Jane Greenwood Stephan, 89, of Westminster, died Saturday, March 15, 2014 at York Hospital.

The family will receive friends on Sunday, March 23, 2014, from 1200 to 200p.m. at Pritts Funeral Home and Chapel, 412 Washington Rd., Westminster, chapel entrance.

According to an obituary for Jane Greenwood Stephan posted on Pritts Funeral Home web site in Westminster:

Mrs. Stephan was, “Born on May 22, 1924, in Rochester, New York she was the daughter of the late Margaretta and William Greenwood. She was the wife of the late Ralph Bish Stephan, who predeceased her in 2010.

She was a graduate of Westminster High School class of 1942.

She worked at Carroll Gardens in the 1950's as a bookkeeper and office manager.

She worked for the Carroll County Board of Education at both Westminster High School and North Carroll High School as an office manager, and at Central Office in the Finance Department.

She was also a bookkeeper for her husband's business, Westminster Exxon Service Center.

She was a member of St. Benjamin's (Kriders) Lutheran Church.

She enjoyed the beach, traveling, and taking bus trips.

Surviving her are daughter and son-in-law Susan J. and C. Edward Bollinger of Westminster; grandchildren Michele Bollinger and husband David Zirin of Takoma Park, Denise Bollinger-Manifold and husband Christopher Manifold of Ellicott City; and Bryan Bollinger and fiancé' Sarah Kiefer of Boston, Mass.; and several great grandchildren, nieces, and nephews.

She was predeceased by brothers William G. Greenwood and John Dutcher Greenwood, sister-in-law Dorothy Stephan Stem and brother- in-law Edgar Stem.

The family will receive friends on Sunday from 1200 to 200p.m. at Pritts Funeral Home and Chapel, 412 Washington Rd., Westminster, chapel entrance.

Funeral services will be at 200pm after visitation, with Rev. David Schafer officiating.

Interment will be Monday at 1100am in Kriders Church Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in her name to the Carroll Hospital Center Foundation, 200 Memorial Ave., Westminster, MD 21157, or to a charity of one's choice.

Online condolences may be made at www.prittsfuneralhome.com.

To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Jane Greenwood Stephan please visit the Pritts Funeral Home Sympathy Store.”

Online the obituary may be found at http://www.prittsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Jane-Greenwood-Stephan/#!/Obituary

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Disclosure: Although I do not know when Mrs. Stephan worked at Westminster High School – for some reason, I remember her working there. I attended Westminster High School from 1968 to 1971; so I will be curious if I was in high school when she worked there.

As I grow older, I find that memories from approximately 45-years ago sometimes have lots of cobwebs. However many of my classmates such as George Welty, Ginnie Muse Schoenberger, Ron Zepp and Debbie Soper O'Hara always seem to remember these things better than I do.

This writer also worked at Carroll Gardens in the 1960s, several years after Mrs. Stephan worked there in the 1950s. Yet when I worked at Carroll Gardens almost 10-years after Mrs. Stephan worked there, she was still remembered with fondness for how well she did her job and that she was also very friendly. Everyone liked working with her.

I then farmed from 1974 to 1999. I raised nursery stock and did property management and landscape contracting - and Mrs. Stephan was one of my customers. She was a wonderful customer. She was nice, kind, attentive and friendly and always seemed so appreciative.

Mrs. Stephan was a wonderful asset in our community in so many ways. She will be greatly missed.

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