Mrs. Jean (Black) Lange, 96, of Thurber Road, formerly of Chappaqua and Goldens Bridge, New York, died Monday, November 15, 2010 at Matulaitis Nursing Home.
Born in Brooklyn, NY on December 8, 1913, she was the daughter of the late Edward and Annie (Stryker) Black.
Mrs. Lange was the wife of the late Bertram J. Lange, advertising executive and art dealer of Mount Kisco, NY and Boothbay Harbor, ME. Her childhood was well ordered but far from ordinary. She was two when her family, in the service of the Methodist Church, decamped from Brooklyn, NY to Fuzhou, China. Jean graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania with a pre-med degree and was a member of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority.
She married Bert on March 4, 1939. During WWII, while her husband served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in Europe, she lived with her children at her parents' home in New Cumberland, PA. Following the war, Jean and Bert lived in White Plains, NY, Barrington, Rhode Island, and Roslyn, NY and Chappaqua, NY.
Jean worked as a medical secretary while helping her husband build the Pinchpenny Gallery art business, establishing galleries in Mt. Kisco, NY and Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Together, they built a house on the Maine coast. Jean especially loved the house in Maine, and the two spent each summer there until Bert's death in 1991.
Jean had a lovely singing voice, and was a skilled piano player. She was an avid gardener and a serious collector of American antiques. Jean was a wonderful wife and mother who provided constant encouragement to those around her, finding the good in most any situation. Her favorite scripture verse was Phillipians 4:8.
Mrs. Lange leaves her daughter, Patricia Flemma and her husband, John Borise, of Norwalk, CT; her son, Peter Lange and his wife, Donna, of Thompson, CT; eleven grandchildren, one predeceased; and fifteen great-grandchildren.
A graveside service was held at Alexandria Presbyterian Cemetery in Alexandria, PA on Tuesday, November 23, 2010.
Published in The Journal News on December 4, 2010.
Born in Brooklyn, NY on December 8, 1913, she was the daughter of the late Edward and Annie (Stryker) Black.
Mrs. Lange was the wife of the late Bertram J. Lange, advertising executive and art dealer of Mount Kisco, NY and Boothbay Harbor, ME. Her childhood was well ordered but far from ordinary. She was two when her family, in the service of the Methodist Church, decamped from Brooklyn, NY to Fuzhou, China. Jean graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania with a pre-med degree and was a member of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority.
She married Bert on March 4, 1939. During WWII, while her husband served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in Europe, she lived with her children at her parents' home in New Cumberland, PA. Following the war, Jean and Bert lived in White Plains, NY, Barrington, Rhode Island, and Roslyn, NY and Chappaqua, NY.
Jean worked as a medical secretary while helping her husband build the Pinchpenny Gallery art business, establishing galleries in Mt. Kisco, NY and Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Together, they built a house on the Maine coast. Jean especially loved the house in Maine, and the two spent each summer there until Bert's death in 1991.
Jean had a lovely singing voice, and was a skilled piano player. She was an avid gardener and a serious collector of American antiques. Jean was a wonderful wife and mother who provided constant encouragement to those around her, finding the good in most any situation. Her favorite scripture verse was Phillipians 4:8.
Mrs. Lange leaves her daughter, Patricia Flemma and her husband, John Borise, of Norwalk, CT; her son, Peter Lange and his wife, Donna, of Thompson, CT; eleven grandchildren, one predeceased; and fifteen great-grandchildren.
A graveside service was held at Alexandria Presbyterian Cemetery in Alexandria, PA on Tuesday, November 23, 2010.
Published in The Journal News on December 4, 2010.
Mrs. Jean (Black) Lange, 96, of Thurber Road, formerly of Chappaqua and Goldens Bridge, New York, died Monday, November 15, 2010 at Matulaitis Nursing Home.
Born in Brooklyn, NY on December 8, 1913, she was the daughter of the late Edward and Annie (Stryker) Black.
Mrs. Lange was the wife of the late Bertram J. Lange, advertising executive and art dealer of Mount Kisco, NY and Boothbay Harbor, ME. Her childhood was well ordered but far from ordinary. She was two when her family, in the service of the Methodist Church, decamped from Brooklyn, NY to Fuzhou, China. Jean graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania with a pre-med degree and was a member of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority.
She married Bert on March 4, 1939. During WWII, while her husband served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in Europe, she lived with her children at her parents' home in New Cumberland, PA. Following the war, Jean and Bert lived in White Plains, NY, Barrington, Rhode Island, and Roslyn, NY and Chappaqua, NY.
Jean worked as a medical secretary while helping her husband build the Pinchpenny Gallery art business, establishing galleries in Mt. Kisco, NY and Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Together, they built a house on the Maine coast. Jean especially loved the house in Maine, and the two spent each summer there until Bert's death in 1991.
Jean had a lovely singing voice, and was a skilled piano player. She was an avid gardener and a serious collector of American antiques. Jean was a wonderful wife and mother who provided constant encouragement to those around her, finding the good in most any situation. Her favorite scripture verse was Phillipians 4:8.
Mrs. Lange leaves her daughter, Patricia Flemma and her husband, John Borise, of Norwalk, CT; her son, Peter Lange and his wife, Donna, of Thompson, CT; eleven grandchildren, one predeceased; and fifteen great-grandchildren.
A graveside service was held at Alexandria Presbyterian Cemetery in Alexandria, PA on Tuesday, November 23, 2010.
Published in The Journal News on December 4, 2010.
Born in Brooklyn, NY on December 8, 1913, she was the daughter of the late Edward and Annie (Stryker) Black.
Mrs. Lange was the wife of the late Bertram J. Lange, advertising executive and art dealer of Mount Kisco, NY and Boothbay Harbor, ME. Her childhood was well ordered but far from ordinary. She was two when her family, in the service of the Methodist Church, decamped from Brooklyn, NY to Fuzhou, China. Jean graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania with a pre-med degree and was a member of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority.
She married Bert on March 4, 1939. During WWII, while her husband served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in Europe, she lived with her children at her parents' home in New Cumberland, PA. Following the war, Jean and Bert lived in White Plains, NY, Barrington, Rhode Island, and Roslyn, NY and Chappaqua, NY.
Jean worked as a medical secretary while helping her husband build the Pinchpenny Gallery art business, establishing galleries in Mt. Kisco, NY and Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Together, they built a house on the Maine coast. Jean especially loved the house in Maine, and the two spent each summer there until Bert's death in 1991.
Jean had a lovely singing voice, and was a skilled piano player. She was an avid gardener and a serious collector of American antiques. Jean was a wonderful wife and mother who provided constant encouragement to those around her, finding the good in most any situation. Her favorite scripture verse was Phillipians 4:8.
Mrs. Lange leaves her daughter, Patricia Flemma and her husband, John Borise, of Norwalk, CT; her son, Peter Lange and his wife, Donna, of Thompson, CT; eleven grandchildren, one predeceased; and fifteen great-grandchildren.
A graveside service was held at Alexandria Presbyterian Cemetery in Alexandria, PA on Tuesday, November 23, 2010.
Published in The Journal News on December 4, 2010.
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