T. Jeanne Conover
Jeanne is a native of Cuyahoga
Falls, Ohio, born July 1, 1924. She had one brother and one
sister. She graduated from National Training School in Kansas
City, was commissioned a deaconess, and appointed to Minnie Nay
Settlement House in Wheeling, West Virginia. She taught
twenty-four kindergarten children. On his first day one little
boy declared, “I don’t want to come back--too much
kids!” (Jeanne’s thought: “I already knew that!)
Other appointments during her 22.7 years with the Woman’s
Division were as Conference Director of Children’s Work in
the Indian Mission Conference in Oklahoma and in the Northwest
Texas Conference.During a sabbatical leave for study at St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City her course on the chaplaincy helped her realize that this was what she needed to do. After earning her M.Div. degree she was ordained in Oklahoma, and changed her relationship with the General Board of Global Ministries from a deaconess to a home missionary.
She became an Associate Member of the Virginia Conference and served for sixteen years as Chaplain in St. Mary’s Bon Sacour Hospital in Richmond. After retirement she and her friend, Ruth Lucy, moved into their new home in Crystal River, Florida, which she enjoyed very much until she suffered a stroke in September 1997.
Jeanne arrived at Brooks-Howell Home on June 8 and is happy to be here. She visited Eleanore Hickok, her Minnie Nay co-worker and close friend, many times, and at Eleanore’s request, came to conduct her memorial service.