JANE L. PETTY

August 12, 1927 – October 12, 2022

Jane Leslye Petty, 95, of Hackettstown, left this life the 12th day of October, 2022, at The House of the Good Shepherd. Jane was born August 12, 1927, in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and grew up in West Caldwell where she graduated from Grover Cleveland High School.  She spent most of her life in Hackettstown, save for a few years near her brother Jack in Georgia. In her working career, she was a dedicated employee of Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Picatinny Arsenal, and the Warner-Lambert Company, of Morris Plains, where she retired as Human Resources Benefit Supervisor after a long-time career.

Jane enjoyed drawing and painting with oils and knitting in earlier years, and later traveling to Florida to visit her sister-in-law Doris and friends in Florida, and spending the winter months in California near daughter Jill and her husband. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Hackettstown and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. After retirement Jane spent time volunteering at Hackettstown Library, Hackettstown Community Hospital, and at two charity thrift stores in Solvang, California. Jane was totally devoted to her children and granddaughters, and derived much of her joy in life from them.   She was excited when she became a great-grandmother to her first great-grandchild who arrived in September.

Jane is survived by her brother Robert Sliker of Hackettstown, son Charles and wife Molly, of Blairstown, daughter Jill and husband Ray Mayer, of Solvang, California, granddaughter Bristol and husband Robert Jewell, of Port Murray, granddaughter Brette and husband Philip Farrelly, of Littleton, Massachusetts, and great-grandson Charles Farrelly.  She is predeceased by her parents Gertrude and Leslie Sliker and brother Jack Sliker.

Visitation will be held Tuesday, October 18 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. with a memorial   service at 11:30am.at Cochran Funeral Home, 905 High Street, Hackettstown, followed by interment at Pleasant Grove Presbyterian Church Cemetery, 132 Califon Road, Long Valley.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the First Presbyterian Church of Hackettstown, 298  Main Street, Hackettstown, NJ 07840, www.fpchackettstown.org

Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Cochran Funeral Home, 905 High Street, Hackettstown, NJ 07840. www.cochranfuneral.com