Jane Ann Wolfe
In Loving Memory
Jane Ann Moses Wolfe died February 5, 2025 age 86, peacefully at her son’s home surrounded by family.
Born in Macon county on November 16, 1938, to Annie Laurie Hairr Moses and Raymond Napoleon Moses, she would live various places over her childhood. Still she always joked about her “hillbilly” accent slipping through.
When in her teen years she she spent some time living in Jamesville, she met Stephen Paxton Wolfe. They quickly bonded with a shared love of science and classical music. Friendship would blossom into love, and they would marry in 1959. They would spend over fifty inseparable years together before his death parted them, when nothing else could.
Always interested in learning, she would graduate NCSU with a degree in chemistry but regretfully life prevented her from getting the PhD she’d always intended. Instead she would find herself working at the post office in Jamesville where she was postmaster until her retirement.
Retirement for her was just as busy as the years before. Her life had always been full of organizations and causes too numerous to list, as well as helping her husband in his fiberglassing business. Now there was more time for all of it.
Reluctantly entering politics, she became a Jamesville town board member, and eventually mayor. Later when her husband became mayor as well, someone joked that voting for him was getting “two for the price of one”. It was simply impossible for her to not help when needed.
In her rare moments of rest she was an avid reader, having mastered the art of escape into books. Her favorite author, Terry Pratchett, wrote “No one is finally dead until the ripples they caused in the world die away.” By that measure she has many years left to go.
Preceded in death by her husband Stephen, she is survived by her children Stephanie and Stephen, grandchildren Woden and Michael, and daughter-in-law Brenda.