Jane Randolph Whitner Grange, 81, of New Smyrna Beach, died Monday, December 10, 2012 at New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Jane was born September 16, 1931, in Sanford, Florida, daughter of Dorothy Lee Rumph and Benjamin Franklin Whitner, V. After graduating from Sanford High School, she earned her BA degree and was awarded Phi Beta Kappa at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA and continued graduate studies in Archaeology at the University of Arizona. She married Roger T. Grange, Jr., PhD, October 16, 1953 in Tucson, Arizona.
Jane worked as excavator, cook, and camp manager with her husband in prehistoric archaeological site excavations in South Dakota, Nebraska and South Carolina, and at historic parks Fort Michilimackinac and Fort Mackinac in Michigan, Castle Hill in Newfoundland, Fort Lennox in Quebec, a Roman villa in England, and the Norman settlement, Hen Domen, in Wales. She also contributed to research on the Turnbull settlement in New Smyrna Beach. Jane was an avid reader of history, literature, fiction and an expert travel planner. She loved to travel and visited all seven continents and about 100 countries on cruises. Newfoundland, five automobile tours of Australia and two in Iceland were her favorites among many trips. Jane and her family resided in Fort Robinson and Lincoln, Nebraska, for 9 years and then in Tampa, Florida, for 30 years. She will be buried with her parents in Evergreen Municipal Cemetery, 1975 West 25th Street, Sanford, Florida 32773.
Jane worked as excavator, cook, and camp manager with her husband in prehistoric archaeological site excavations in South Dakota, Nebraska and South Carolina, and at historic parks Fort Michilimackinac and Fort Mackinac in Michigan, Castle Hill in Newfoundland, Fort Lennox in Quebec, a Roman villa in England, and the Norman settlement, Hen Domen, in Wales. She also contributed to research on the Turnbull settlement in New Smyrna Beach. Jane was an avid reader of history, literature, fiction and an expert travel planner. She loved to travel and visited all seven continents and about 100 countries on cruises. Newfoundland, five automobile tours of Australia and two in Iceland were her favorites among many trips. Jane and her family resided in Fort Robinson and Lincoln, Nebraska, for 9 years and then in Tampa, Florida, for 30 years. She will be buried with her parents in Evergreen Municipal Cemetery, 1975 West 25th Street, Sanford, Florida 32773.
Jane Randolph Whitner Grange, 81, of New Smyrna Beach, died Monday, December 10, 2012 at New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Jane was born September 16, 1931, in Sanford, Florida, daughter of Dorothy Lee Rumph and Benjamin Franklin Whitner, V. After graduating from Sanford High School, she earned her BA degree and was awarded Phi Beta Kappa at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA and continued graduate studies in Archaeology at the University of Arizona. She married Roger T. Grange, Jr., PhD, October 16, 1953 in Tucson, Arizona.
Jane worked as excavator, cook, and camp manager with her husband in prehistoric archaeological site excavations in South Dakota, Nebraska and South Carolina, and at historic parks Fort Michilimackinac and Fort Mackinac in Michigan, Castle Hill in Newfoundland, Fort Lennox in Quebec, a Roman villa in England, and the Norman settlement, Hen Domen, in Wales. She also contributed to research on the Turnbull settlement in New Smyrna Beach. Jane was an avid reader of history, literature, fiction and an expert travel planner. She loved to travel and visited all seven continents and about 100 countries on cruises. Newfoundland, five automobile tours of Australia and two in Iceland were her favorites among many trips. Jane and her family resided in Fort Robinson and Lincoln, Nebraska, for 9 years and then in Tampa, Florida, for 30 years. She will be buried with her parents in Evergreen Municipal Cemetery, 1975 West 25th Street, Sanford, Florida 32773.
Jane worked as excavator, cook, and camp manager with her husband in prehistoric archaeological site excavations in South Dakota, Nebraska and South Carolina, and at historic parks Fort Michilimackinac and Fort Mackinac in Michigan, Castle Hill in Newfoundland, Fort Lennox in Quebec, a Roman villa in England, and the Norman settlement, Hen Domen, in Wales. She also contributed to research on the Turnbull settlement in New Smyrna Beach. Jane was an avid reader of history, literature, fiction and an expert travel planner. She loved to travel and visited all seven continents and about 100 countries on cruises. Newfoundland, five automobile tours of Australia and two in Iceland were her favorites among many trips. Jane and her family resided in Fort Robinson and Lincoln, Nebraska, for 9 years and then in Tampa, Florida, for 30 years. She will be buried with her parents in Evergreen Municipal Cemetery, 1975 West 25th Street, Sanford, Florida 32773.
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