Jane Lee Garrison, of Joplin, MO, died on Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Jane was born in West Virginia where she spent much of her time reading every book she could find. It is no surprise she would spend over forty years in the classroom as an elementary school and reading teacher. It was this passion to teach that is the subject of an ongoing question, "What was Jane's real age?"
Back in 1942, her health records were destroyed in the great Appalachian tornado outbreak. Later she applied for a Delayed Birth Certificate. Only recently, following her death, did her family discover her original applications for this certificate. On them, she wrote her year of birth as "28, 29, 30?" A final certificate was issued with DOB 1-2-1930. According to the government, she was 89 at her death. Most people, including Jane, believe she was 91. Rumor has it, she loved teaching so much, she saw the "flexible" DOB as an opportunity to make herself younger… so she could teach two years longer, past state retirement age rules.
Jane now joins countless friends and family in paradise. They include her loving mother and father, Lucy Jane and Albert Lee Flaherty; adoring husband, Richard Paul "Pete" Garrison; beloved and 'ornery' son, Jeffrey Lee Garrison.
A celebration of her life was held on Saturday, March 16, 2019, at Adams Funeral Home in Ozark, Missouri. Jane was interred on March 15, 2019.
Back in 1942, her health records were destroyed in the great Appalachian tornado outbreak. Later she applied for a Delayed Birth Certificate. Only recently, following her death, did her family discover her original applications for this certificate. On them, she wrote her year of birth as "28, 29, 30?" A final certificate was issued with DOB 1-2-1930. According to the government, she was 89 at her death. Most people, including Jane, believe she was 91. Rumor has it, she loved teaching so much, she saw the "flexible" DOB as an opportunity to make herself younger… so she could teach two years longer, past state retirement age rules.
Jane now joins countless friends and family in paradise. They include her loving mother and father, Lucy Jane and Albert Lee Flaherty; adoring husband, Richard Paul "Pete" Garrison; beloved and 'ornery' son, Jeffrey Lee Garrison.
A celebration of her life was held on Saturday, March 16, 2019, at Adams Funeral Home in Ozark, Missouri. Jane was interred on March 15, 2019.
Jane Lee Garrison, of Joplin, MO, died on Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Jane was born in West Virginia where she spent much of her time reading every book she could find. It is no surprise she would spend over forty years in the classroom as an elementary school and reading teacher. It was this passion to teach that is the subject of an ongoing question, "What was Jane's real age?"
Back in 1942, her health records were destroyed in the great Appalachian tornado outbreak. Later she applied for a Delayed Birth Certificate. Only recently, following her death, did her family discover her original applications for this certificate. On them, she wrote her year of birth as "28, 29, 30?" A final certificate was issued with DOB 1-2-1930. According to the government, she was 89 at her death. Most people, including Jane, believe she was 91. Rumor has it, she loved teaching so much, she saw the "flexible" DOB as an opportunity to make herself younger… so she could teach two years longer, past state retirement age rules.
Jane now joins countless friends and family in paradise. They include her loving mother and father, Lucy Jane and Albert Lee Flaherty; adoring husband, Richard Paul "Pete" Garrison; beloved and 'ornery' son, Jeffrey Lee Garrison.
A celebration of her life was held on Saturday, March 16, 2019, at Adams Funeral Home in Ozark, Missouri. Jane was interred on March 15, 2019.
Back in 1942, her health records were destroyed in the great Appalachian tornado outbreak. Later she applied for a Delayed Birth Certificate. Only recently, following her death, did her family discover her original applications for this certificate. On them, she wrote her year of birth as "28, 29, 30?" A final certificate was issued with DOB 1-2-1930. According to the government, she was 89 at her death. Most people, including Jane, believe she was 91. Rumor has it, she loved teaching so much, she saw the "flexible" DOB as an opportunity to make herself younger… so she could teach two years longer, past state retirement age rules.
Jane now joins countless friends and family in paradise. They include her loving mother and father, Lucy Jane and Albert Lee Flaherty; adoring husband, Richard Paul "Pete" Garrison; beloved and 'ornery' son, Jeffrey Lee Garrison.
A celebration of her life was held on Saturday, March 16, 2019, at Adams Funeral Home in Ozark, Missouri. Jane was interred on March 15, 2019.
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