Obituary for Jane King Cameron Emery

Jane Emery

This is a functional duplicate of the obituary as it was published in the Toledo Blade on Sunday, July 12, 2015. You can read it here: Jane King Cameron Emery. To this, I have added a few important paragraphs and pictures.

Jane King (Cameron) Emery, 90, of Sylvania, Ohio passed away suddenly Wednesday, July 8, 2015. She was born June 28, 1925, in Toledo, Ohio to Louis T. and Ruth Mary (Wright) Cameron, the second of four sisters.

Jane graduated from Libbey High School in 1943 and continued her education at the University of Toledo, earning a Bachelor of Arts. In the middle of her junior year she met Bill Emery, who had just returned from WWII. They were married in Toledo on October 2, 1948, and had two sons, William Louis and Robert McFarland.

Jane taught business subjects at Whitmer High School where the love, patience and respect that she showed her students made her a favorite teacher and inspired many students to become successful. She served as adviser to the Whitmer Equestrians, helping the club organize and put on their own horse show, which drew hundreds of entries from all over the area. Jane's avocation was raising and training American Saddlebred Horses and Palominos. In the 1960s she rode her registered PHBA mare, Emerydale's Golden Girl, to the position of first place in the nation, where she retired undefeated. Jane moved to American Saddlebred horses, showing in three gaited and fine harness classes and winning numerous trophies and awards.

When her husband of 58 years passed away, Jane put the remaining horses out to pasture and pursued other interests. She loved to sew and made several beautiful quilts for her family. She bought a piano and took piano lessons. She also enjoyed drawing, preferring pencil and charcoal, and she enjoyed going to church services every Sunday where she sat in 'widows' row', as the residents laughingly called it.

Jane was a caring, unassuming, generous person who loved her church. She never had a cross word to say about anyone. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Bill; brother-in-law, John Roper, and her beloved sister, Amy-Lou Seymour. Left to cherish her memory are sisters, Alma Roper, Ann (Ned) Braunschweiger; nieces, Linda (Roper) Tong and Amy-Lou (Little Amy) Braunschweiger; nephew, John Roper; sons, Bill and Bob; daughter-in-law, Kim (Bob) Emery, and her cherished grandson, Wayne Emery. She will also be grievously missed by the family amicis, Dave Leuck and Mike Hamann.

We also want to recognize close personal friends Ellen Boone and her three daughters Anna, Karen and Meg.  These warmhearted, caring ladies enjoyed countless holidays, outings and parties with Jane, and were a great comfort to her when her husband passed away, and again when her son Bill was sick with cancer.  Their kindness and consideration gave Jane a lot of happiness over the years.


A memorial service will be held July 18th at 11:00 a.m. at Bethany Community Fellowship, 5757 Flanders Road, Toledo, Ohio 43623, and will be followed by a fellowship meal. A brief internment ceremony will be held at Toledo Memorial Park at 2:00 p.m.

R.I.P. Jane Emery, née Cameron

It is my duty to inform everyone that my dear mother, Jane Emery, née Cameron, passed away last night (Wednesday, 7/8/15) around 11:00 PM.

I left the house around 8:00 to return some videos and make another stop or two.  When I got back around 8:45 I discovered that Mom was sitting in her recliner (where I left her), but she had vomited over everything as was semi-conscious.  She told me she'd had a heart attack. I called 9-1-1 and the EMS team arrived promptly.  They worked on Mom for a while, started an IV and such, then loaded Mom onto a stretcher and took her to Flower Hospital ER.  Mom's heart stopped at the ER, and the Dr. at the ER (Dr. Wilson) managed to revive her.  This happened several times, then the doctor explained to me that the medication was keeping her heart beating, but each time it wore off her heart stopped.  The kindest thing to do was to stop medicating her.
So that's what happened.

Ellen was with me, and we said good-bye to Mom.  I told Mom not to worry about me, that the Lord was looking after me and I'd be alright, and we'd see each other again in heaven.

I have a few phone calls to make today, but I'll be checking my email and Facebook as time and energy permit.

In addition (as of December 22, 2015) you may read the various obituaries at the following links:

R.I.P. Jane Emery

Toledo Blade Obituary Jane King Emery

Toledo Blade Article Jane Emery

This Site Obituary

Thank you and good night.

Cirque du Soleil: Koozå

Last Saturday Mom and I went down to Columbus to see Cirque.  Mike was good enough to put us up for the night, which was very nice of him.  Mike's mom was in town, and the four of us went to see Cirque du Soleil, the Koozå show.

Cirque Tickets

The Cirque is magnificent, so much so that I'm unable to describe it with anything close to adequacy.  If you haven't been to see Cirque du Soleil, or Circus of the Sun as we'd say it in English, save up your pennies and go.  Our tickets were $90 each (ouch!) and worth twice the price.

In the Koozå show, the clowns spoke English and were actually funny.  The clowns bear no resemblance to traditional circus clowns, either in costume or in humor; rather, they are comedians.  Generally, the clowns don't speak, or don't speak English.  They may speak in a foreign language (likely an obscure Slavic language spoken by 37 people living above the Arctic circle), or they will make speech-like noises.  In the Koozå show, they made jokes.  They also played with the audience, selecting a few people for special attention.

The performers in Cirque are all Olympic class athletes, and the acts they do reflect that.  The aerial acts required a huge amount of upper body strength, along with exceptional coordination.  You won't see these acts anywhere else in the world, and they are well worth seeing.

Cirque du Soleil is a circus for adults.  It isn't that children are not welcome.  It's that most children are too immature to enjoy the show, and the tickets are a bit pricey.

Since we saw the afternoon show, which started right on time at 4:30 PM, we all went out to dinner afterwards.  Mike suggested we go to the Bonefish Grill, which is an excellent restaurant and is close to home.  I had shrimp and scallops, which were very nice.

Mom and I drove back Sunday, sadly missing church services.  Too bad, but the show was worth it.