The Taskers comically moved quite often living in more than a dozen houses while residing in Monroe County. She was also employed outside the home for some time for Crafts 2000, Ross Business Institute, and had worked for John Richwine at Gerweck Realty in the 1980’s. She appreciated a neat and orderly home, often vacuuming daily. Mary cared for her family’s needs as a homemaker. In the mid 1970’s, Mary and Bob were blessed with two children. She was a constant fixture at the store helping to keep it tidy. Bob owned and operated the Detroit Beach Pharmacy for more than twenty-one years. They moved from Mid-Michigan to Monroe County in 1971. They were married at the Central Michigan University Chapel on August 31, 1963. The couple met at Blue Lake where both families had cottages. In the Summer of 1961, Mary caught the eye of a young man named Robert Charles Tasker. She furthered her education by attending Central Michigan University, although she later obtained her Associate Degree from Monroe County Community College. Mary graduated with the Class of 1961 from Shepherd High School in Shepherd, Michigan. Please sign her online guestbook at Jane Field was born in Mount Pleasant, Michigan on August 19, 1943. Memorials may be made to the wishes of the family. memorial service, both in the second-floor chapel at College Church of the Nazarene, 200 University Ave., Bourbonnais, where Jayne was a member. She loved and cherished the precious times that she would spend with her three granddaughters. She also shared her art skills by giving painting lessons to her granddaughters and their friends. Her specialty was making beautiful, unique, hand-quilted Christmas tree skirts. Jayne enjoyed reading, oil painting and making ceramics and crafts. She taught art in the Herscher School District and also in the Aroostook County, Maine, school system.įollowing her husband's passing, she returned to the Kankakee area in 2020, to be close to her family. Making a decision to take a different career path, she returned to school at Olivet Nazarene University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in elementary education, with an art emphasis, in 1993. Occasionally, she would also fill in as a nurse at her father-in-law's medical practice, William T. She worked as a registered nurse at Riverside Medical Center and St. She attended Kankakee Community College and graduated with a degree in nursing in 1991. Jayne was a 1977 graduate of Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School, where she was senior class president. 11, 2019 her parents and her daughter, Jillian Leigh Hodges. Preceding her in death were her second husband, William Tasker, on Nov. After relocating to Northern Maine in 1999, Jayne married William Tasker on June 9, 2000, in Caribou, Maine. After parting ways, Robert and Jayne continued to be close friends through the years. 19, 1977, at Asbury United Methodist Church in Kankakee. Additional survivors are her niece, Michelle (Matthew) Ward, of Herscher her nephew, Jason (Aly) Spencer, of Florida along with several aunts, uncles and cousins. and granddaughters, Ava and Alice Lunsford and Everleigh Ward. Surviving are her son and daughter-in-law, Aaron Hodges and Dawn Lunsford, of Kankakee brother and sister-in-law, Steven "Mike" and Mary Spencer, of Herscher brothers, Jeffrey and James Spencer, both of Los Angeles, Calif. Mary's Hospital, Kankakee, the daughter of James R. 8, 2022, at Aperion Care in Bradley, following an extended illness. Jayne Michelle Hodges-Tasker passed away peacefully Aug.
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