Jean Miriam Hagen

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The SSDI records:
Jean Whiteman SSN: 151-16-5101 Born: 18 Jul 1925 Died: Dec 1971 State (Year) SSN issued: New Jersey (Before 1951)


From a Feb. 19, 2009 email, Jane [Hagen] Craig relates:
My sister was Jean Miriam Hagen Whiteman (divorced from Edward Whiteman). Her daughter, Gail, is married to David Steele.


From the Dec 5, 1971 Delaware County Daily Times, Chestee Co., Pennsylvania
8th Grader rescues 2 Children
SECANE - Nancy Kelly of 619 South Ave., is a 13-year-old with rare presence of mind that has made her a modest heroine.
The other night she was babysitting, as she has done frequently since last spring/with the two children of Mrs. Jean Whiteman, of 1256 Providence Rd., Secane.
Fire broke out in the bedroom closet of ten-year-old Gerry, who is the poster boy for the 1961 Muscular Dystrophy campaign. Nancy wheeled Garry to safety outdoors, led his sister Gale to the street and closed the door of the blazing room. She is credited with saving the lives of the children and keeping damage to the house from spreading. Firemen of the Primos-Secane, Westbrook Park Company praised her quick action.
Asked how she happened to handle the emergency so efficiently, Nancy replied that she had experience with fire before. Last December, in the kitchen of her home, she turned her back to the stove for a moment and the pajamas she was wearing caught fire. She rolled herself in a rug and smothered the flames. On still another occasion, a tent which her brother had pitched in the back yard was burned. The three experiences, Nancy agrees, have been more than enough for a lifetime.
When firemen arrived at the Whiteman residence, Nancy's mother and brother rushed from
their home nearby. They took the family to the Kelly home, where they remained for two nights.
Nancy attended her 8th Grade classes at Beverly Hills Junior High School on Thursday, but by Friday the excitement and confusion had exhausted her so that she had to remain at home. She returned to routine on Monday, a celebrated but very unassuming young lady.


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From the Friday Dec 31, 1971 Delaware County Daily Times, Chestee Co., Pennsylvania
Whiteman
Mrs. Jean M.Whiteman, the former Miriam Hagen, 1446 Virginia Ave., Haverford Township, died Thursday at Riddle Hospital, Middletown, after a brief illness.
Born in Bristol, she was a graduate of Haverford High School class of '43. After graduation she worked 10 years with the Pennsylvania Railroad and at the time of her death was head teller of Media branch of Fidelity Bank. She was with Fidelity for about 10 years.
She recently had announced her engagement to Joseph P. Botkin of Thornton, Thornbury.
She was treasurer of the Delaware and Chester County Chapter of the Muscular Dystrophy Association of America.
Mrs. Whiteman formerly lived in Broomall, Marple, and was a member of the Rebecca of IOOF [International Order of Odd Fellows] and Trinity Chapel in Broomall.
She is survived by a daughter, Gail Christine Whiteman; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Hagen, with whom she made her home; a sister, Mrs. Jane H. Craig of Levittown and a brother, Samuel G. Hagen of Orlando, Fla.
A son, Gary V. Whiteman, a muscular dystrophy victim, died in September at the age of 20.
Services will be 11 a.m. Monday at the Donald A. Gibson Funeral Home, Lawrence and Sproul Roads, Broomall. Calling hours will be from 7 to 9 Sunday at the funeral home.
Burial will be in Glenwood Memorial Gardens, Broomall.
[The Rebecca Lodges grew out of the interest of women in participating in the IOOF activities.]

Jean married Living