{"id":1211,"date":"2013-09-18T12:35:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T16:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2013-09-18T13:08:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T17:08:48","slug":"jane-smith-kuntz-jan-30-1926-sept-15-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/jane-smith-kuntz-jan-30-1926-sept-15-2013.html","title":{"rendered":"Jane Smith Kuntz Jan. 30, 1926 – Sept. 15, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nBuffalo News, 15 September 2013,\r\n\r\nJane S. Kuntz, retired teacher, active in community<\/a>,\r\n

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\r\nJan. 30, 1926 — Sept. 15, 2013\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nJane S. Kuntz, of Lancaster, a retired teacher, died Sunday in\r\nGreenField Manor, Lancaster, after a lenthy illness. She was 87.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nA lifelong Lancaster resident, the former Jane S. Smith was the\r\nvaledictorian of the Class of 1943 at Lancaster High School and was\r\na Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Marietta College in Ohio.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nReturning to Lancaster, she taught English for five years,\r\n

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then\r\nraised her family. She returned to teaching in the 1970s, first as a\r\nsubstitute teacher, then as an elementary school reading aide.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nMrs. Kuntz was a member of the Lancaster Historical Society, the\r\nLancaster Opera House and Lancaster Presbyterian Church, where she\r\nwas the first elder-deacon liaison. She also was an election poll\r\nworker.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nActive in the American Field Service student exchange program, she\r\nwas host mother to more than 10 foreign students through AFS and\r\nRotary International.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nHer husband of 52 years, Allen H., a professor emeritus at the\r\nUniversity at Buffalo, died in 2003.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nSurvivors include a son, Karl; four daughters, Heidi Chaves, Sara\r\nDickinson, Kristin Kuntz and Gretchen Quarterman; and two sisters,\r\nKathryn Peters and Eleanor Wertz.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nServices will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Zurbrick-Amigone Funeral\r\nHome, 5615 Broadway, Lancaster.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\n\r\nKUNTZ – Jane (nee Smith)<\/a>\r\n

\r\nSeptember 15, 2013, age 87; beloved wife of the late Allen H. Kuntz; dearest mother of Heidi (Aurelius Marc) Chaves, Karl (Clare Lowsby) Kuntz, Gretchen (John) Quarterman, Sara Dickinson, and Kristin Kuntz; dear grandmother of Aurelius Marc (Megan) Chaves, Jr., Caitlin Chaves Yates (Anthony Yates), Bennett Chaves, Lindsey (Roy) Williams, Mallory (Gil) Breingan, Laurel and Brenda Dickinson; sister of Kathryn (late Edward) Peters and Eleanor (Frederick) Wertz; also survived by nieces and nephews. The family will be present on Tuesday from 2-4 & 7-9 PM at the Zurbrick-AMIGONE FUNERAL HOME, 5615 Broadway, Lancaster, where Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday at 10:00 AM. Friends invited. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Marietta College Office of Advancement, 215 Fifth St. Marietta, Ohio 45750. Share condolences at\r\nwww.AMIGONE.com<\/a>\r\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo News, 15 September 2013, Jane S. Kuntz, retired teacher, active in community, Jan. 30, 1926 — Sept. 15, 2013 Jane S. Kuntz, of Lancaster, a retired teacher, died Sunday in GreenField Manor, Lancaster, after a lenthy illness. She was 87.","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[2443,24,1333,3,23,2445,2764,2440,2438,5,2444,2447,1081,2439,2,2441,325,1084,2760,2442,2446,2448,25],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-okra-paradise-farms","tag-allen-h-kuntz","tag-brown-dog","tag-david-s-quarterman","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-heidi-chaves","tag-history","tag-jane-kuntz","tag-jane-smith","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-karl-kuntz","tag-kristin-kuntz","tag-lancaster","tag-laura-e-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-marietta-college","tag-new-york","tag-ohio","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-phi-beta-kappa","tag-sara-dickinson","tag-university-of-buffalo","tag-yellow-dog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-jx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}