Obituary: Jane Gribbin

Jane Gribbin, 96, of Fearrington Village, Pittsboro, North Carolina died peacefully on June 30, 2022, surrounded by family and friends.

Jane was born May 19, 1926, in Rockville Centre, Long Island. After graduating from St. Agnes Cathedral School in 1944 and the Katharine Gibbs School, she went on to become a casting director in the early days of television at the Young & Rubicam advertising agency in New York, where she met her future husband, George Gribbin.

They wed at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York in 1953 and had six children, Laura, Peter, Sarah, Susan, James, and Mary.

After her marriage, Jane raised her family and accompanied her husband on his frequent business trips abroad. She was active on the board of Whitby School, volunteered at the Greenwich Hospital, ran the Greenwich Center for Chamber Music, and taught at the Greenwich Garden Center.

Following the death of her husband in 1981, she pursued her passion for gardening, cooking, travel, and music, especially the opera. She retired to Fearrington Village in 1997 and made many new friends, who knew her as an accomplished rug hooker and a true believer in liberal causes and politics.

Jane was predeceased by her husband Grib and her grandson, Julien. She is survived by her stepson Andrew, her daughter Laura, her son Peter and his wife Nenita, her daughter Sarah, her daughter Susan and her husband Richard and their three children, Emma, Kai, and Luci, her son James, and her daughter Mary. She is also survived by her brother Robert Lindon and his wife Joan of Plainview, New York.

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