This memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Jane Marie McGhan, 55 years young, born on May 4, 1957 in Seattle, Washington and passed into eternal life on Friday February 22, 2013 at 10:50pm. We will remember her forever.
Jane (or as she liked to spell it: Jayne) was a beloved daughter,a mother of three, a sister to three, an aunt, a cousin and friend to all… She never met a stranger she didn’t reach out and immediately connect with.... Captivating everyone she met with her bigger than life personality. Each person that met Jayne could agree that she loved life to the fullest and had an enormous heart and proved time and time again that she would do anything for anyone. As a child I remember being in a restaraunt and she leaned over and started up a conversation with the people sitting next to us, she surely made friends wherever she went.Through all of life's up's and down's she was always so resilient and took life head on. There was nothing ‘typical woman’ about Jayne, she was kind of a tom-boy/rebel but that helped her to always be the strong one we could lean on during difficult times like these. Jayne was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2010, at the age of 53 and the doctors gave her only 6 months, Jayne being the fighter that she was, faught long and hard.. She made it an additional 2 years. Surely, she was a strong willed adventurous spirit who is gone too soon and is greatly missed.
Jayne was an avid scuba diver and she love to be outdoors, she liked to ride motorcycles (a particular fondness of purple ones) and was known for her master gardening skills.. at her home in Fairbanks she kept a large garden and won many growing competitions. Jayne was always the life of the party wherever she went. She traveled more than most people get to.. always on the go, she wasn't the cookie cutter woman, but that's what so many loved about her. Jayne was passionate about her Native American heritage (and even incorporated much of it into her home decor) and mother-nature in general. She wrote a blog one time about conservation of our natural resources and about how mother nature was mad at us all. Jayne loved to sing, she even had her own Karaoke business, called Good Knight Entertainment in Ft. Myers.
She drove a school bus for many years and a few spent as a handicaped bus driver. I know that job and those times were precious to her. One of the handicaped children's parents made her a wooden rocking horse for her daughters to show his appreciation of how well she took care of those kids that were lucky enough to ride on her bus.
She was always a spiritual person but in her later years she grew to have a personal relationship with Jesus and for that, as the bible tells us is the only way into heaven.. So we know she is there, smiling down… not missing a beat of our lives.. for she can hear you my friends, she is at peace and telling us not to fret, for we will see each other again… this is not goodbye, but simply see you later.
