Jane Ammerman Blanton
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Enthusiastic, active supporter of Girl Scouts
Jane Ammerman Blanton passed gracefully from this life to the next, October 24, 2013, and is buried in Sharon Cemetery, Shelby, N.C.
She was born July 26, 1924, a daughter of Harold Elliott Ammerman and Edna Elizabeth Brush.
Mrs. Blanton grew up in Orange, N.J., where she made lifelong friends.
She enjoyed playing tennis, spent summers at the New Jersey beaches and loved attending the theater in New York City. She graduated from East Orange High School in 1942 and in 1946, graduated Phi Beta Kappa in math from Duke University. During World War II, she spent summers working in research facilities, including assembling parts for the Norden bombsight. She worked as a calculator at Bell Laboratories Research Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., after completing graduate studies at Rutgers University, where she also taught.
In 1951, she married Neil Blanton of Shelby. They spent the next 19 years in Washington, where they were active in First Methodist Church and in many civic organizations. Since her childhood, she was an enthusiastic and active supporter of Girl Scouts of America, first as a Girl Scout and then as a troop leader and in various volunteer leadership roles.
In 1970, the Blanton family relocated to Clifton Park, N.Y. where they added to their circle of friends and experiences. She joined the Shenendehowa United Methodist Church and was active in FISH volunteer services. She taught at Schenectady Community College and enjoyed tutoring students challenged in math.
In 1989, she and her husband retired to Washington and spent the remainder of their lives in the area. In addition to reconnecting with their longtime friends in Pennsylvania, they enjoyed family gatherings at the Outer Banks of North Carolina each summer.
She was preceded in death by her parents and husband, Neil.
Surviving are daughters, Patty (Bob) McConnaughe, of Pittsboro, N.C., Carol (Tom) Lutke, of Oxford, Miss., and Elizabeth (Jack) Goet, of Butler; and seven much-loved grandchildren, Adam McConnaughey, Jane, Emily and Tom Lutken and Andrea, Stephen and John Goetz.
The family requests that memorial contributions be made to your local Girl Scout Council, local United Methodist Church or the charity of your choice.