Ellen Jane Steen (who went by Jane), age 75, died early Saturday afternoon, November 21, at her home at Winterberry Heights in Bangor, where she lived for the past year. While she has coped with Parkinson's Disease for many years, she very recently seriously declined from a combination of health issues.
Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to George Daniel and Alice Ellen McFadden, the family moved often, as her father's job as project manager for George A. Fuller Company involved building skyscrapers around the country -- including in New York, New Jersey, Pittsburgh, Denver and Chicago.
Her high school involvement in the schools' newspapers presaged her later career as a reporter in Connecticut. After her marriage to James Steen in Chicago, they later moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, where they raised their two children. After a divorce, she lived in Stonington, Connecticut, and later moved to Maine, where her mother and sister were living.
Throughout her life, Jane was a writer, an artist, an ice skater, a movie lover, and a great storyteller. She loved life, light, vibrant colors, animals and kind people, but always most and best of all her two children, Ted Steen and Meredith Lederer, and her grandson Michael and granddaughters Sophia and Luce. In her final year, she also loved the amazing staff at Winterberry, where she said she felt "loved, safe and protected.”
She is survived by her two children, three grandchildren, her sister, her son-in-law and daughter-in-law, and her former husband. She will be buried, once it is safe for family to travel, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, alongside her mother, father and brother.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to St. Joseph’s Hospice, 900 Broadway, Building 4, Bangor, ME 04401.
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Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to George Daniel and Alice Ellen McFadden, the family moved often, as her father's job as project manager for George A. Fuller Company involved building skyscrapers around the country -- including in New York, New Jersey, Pittsburgh, Denver and Chicago.
Her high school involvement in the schools' newspapers presaged her later career as a reporter in Connecticut. After her marriage to James Steen in Chicago, they later moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, where they raised their two children. After a divorce, she lived in Stonington, Connecticut, and later moved to Maine, where her mother and sister were living.
Throughout her life, Jane was a writer, an artist, an ice skater, a movie lover, and a great storyteller. She loved life, light, vibrant colors, animals and kind people, but always most and best of all her two children, Ted Steen and Meredith Lederer, and her grandson Michael and granddaughters Sophia and Luce. In her final year, she also loved the amazing staff at Winterberry, where she said she felt "loved, safe and protected.”
She is survived by her two children, three grandchildren, her sister, her son-in-law and daughter-in-law, and her former husband. She will be buried, once it is safe for family to travel, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, alongside her mother, father and brother.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to St. Joseph’s Hospice, 900 Broadway, Building 4, Bangor, ME 04401.
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