Ruth Jane Creighton Bost

During World War II, with her husband away in the service and while raising her daughter Susanne, Jane worked in her father's war plant during the day and managed the Town of Norwalk telephone doctors switchboard nightly on the graveyard shift. In that position Jane was the first in her town to receive the daily Red Cross lists of the town's was dead. Often she talked of the emotional strain of seeing so many of her young friends die, including the entire front line of her high school football team. She was always proud of "the boys" but it was a dark memory that remained very much a part of her for the rest of her life. Divorced shortly after the war Jane visited and fell in love with South Florida and moved there permanently in the early 1950s. Circa 1960 and remarried, she with her husband stated Parks Cultivator Company, later Palm Beach Growers Equipment Co., specializing in farm equipment for South Florida winter vegetable growers, which she managed for forty years.

She is predeceased by her parents Harry and Estelle Creighton of Norwalk, CT and older sister Louise Creighton of NY.

Also, she is predeceased by her husbands George Bost of Antiquers Aerodrome, Delray Beach; Dr. Al Monaco of Daytona; King William Parks of Delray Beach and Rome, GA; Stephen Pocsik of Norwalk, CT; Edward A. Bishop of Chelmsford, MA; daughter-in-law Christine Parks of Boynton Beach; son-in-law Tom West of Gladstone, VA and long time friend & companion Lt. Col. Arthur Herman of Delray Beach.

She is survived by her four children: Susanne B. Selman of Atlanta, GA; Anna Jane West of Gladstone, VA; Stephen C. Pocsik of Pompano Beach, FL; William C. Parks of Boynton Beach, FL; two granddaughters Suzanne C. Selman of Atlanta, GA; and Christina P. DeShay of Tampa, FL; her sister Mary E. Creighton formerly of New Hartford, NY; daughter-in-law Sandra B. Pocsik of Pompano Beach, FL and son-in-law Walter Selman of Atlanta, GA.