- Date Of Birth: March 14, 1918
- Date Of Death: March 26, 2015
- State: Illinois
Mary Jane Damman, 97, of Ottawa, died March 26, at Pleasant View.
Mary Jane was born on March 14, 1918 in Watertown, SD to R.G. and Mary Ann (Heckathorn) Meisel. She attended schools in South Dakota and Santa Barbara, CA. Mary Jane moved to Ottawa in 1933 and graduated from Ottawa Township High School in 1935. She also attended the St. Mary’s Hospital School of Nursing, where she became a registered nurse. Mary Jane married LaVern H. Damman on October 12, 1941 at the First Presbyterian Church in Ottawa. She retired from nursing in the late 1960’s.
She and her husband owned and operated Springwood Mink Ranch in rural South Ottawa Township for many years. In 1974 they retired and moved to Streator. They split their time between Streator and their cottage on Dunn Lake in Spooner, WI. They returned to Ottawa in 1996.
She is survived by a sister-in-law Beverly Melland, of Ottawa and very good friends Paul and Julie Pike and all of the Pike family. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and a step-father, Carlyle Wilson.
