Article: OBIT - JONES, Jane Hardcastle

Jane Hardcastle Jones, 86, of Blacksburg, Va., died on Monday, October 26, 2009, following a long illness. She was born in Suffolk, Va., to the Rev. Howard S. Hardcastle and Mary Miller Hardcastle. Jane earned a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from VPI in 1944 and then worked as an engineer for Curtiss-Wright in Buffalo, N.Y., and for the Purdue Engineering Experiment Station in Lafayette, Ind.

She was a master of several arts and crafts: pen and pencil sketching, needlework, and quilting. As a weaver she won several awards and completely restored two nineteenth century floor looms to working order.

She enjoyed a wide variety of music and played recorder, mountain dulcimer, ...

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