Mary Jane Tucker

Mary Jane was born on April 8, 1934 in Greenville, NC to the late Ottis Onward and Minnie Mae (Smith) Ange. She married her high school sweetheart, and both graduated from East Carolina University. She became a teacher and her husband ultimately was an officer in the Air Force. Together and with their children, they lived throughout the United States and abroad. After their children were in college, she worked and retired as a teacher for the Fairfax County School System in Fairfax, VA. After retiring she devoted herself to her family and local gardens and libraries.

She is survived by her beloved husband William Lester Tucker; loving sons and daughter, William, Robert and Lee Ann; daughter-in-law Sylvia; and adoring granddaughters, Adrienne, Kiera and Celia.

A gathering of family and friends will take place on Thursday, May 28, 2015 from 2 to 4 pm at the Edward F. Carter Funeral Home, 41 Grand St., Croton-on-Hudson, NY, Phone: 914-271-4882 (Hudson Line to Croton-Harmon train station). A Memorial Service will follow at 4 pm, also at the funeral home. Entombment and committal services will be held at Arlington National Cemetery in the near future.

In lieu of flowers, her family wishes gifts in her honor be made to: Columbia University Hospital - Division of Hematology/Oncology, New York, NY via https://giving.columbia.edu/giveonline/?schoolstyle=99991&alloc=07857 , or the Amyloidosis Foundation, Inc., Clarkston, Minnesota, via www.amyloidosis.org, or Lewisboro Library, South Salem, NY, via www.lewisborolibrary.org or at 15 Main Street, PO Box 477, South Salem, NY 10590.

For further information on the funeral home, please visit: http://www.efcarterfuneralhome.com.