Mary Palone

She was an excellent seamstress, sewing until the wee hours of the morning. She made my clothes from infant on up and suits for my dad. She began designing sets for our church for special programs and at one time literally sewed a mountain for the choir. Our choir at Temple Baptist Church Detroit had roughly 500 seats so it literally was a mountain! We had such a wonderful relationship whether it be shopping, going to Detroit Tiger games, and taking a trip to England. Any type of activity you can think of she signed me up for!Besides her family, she had one true love, our Lord a d savior Jesus Christ. Mom taught Sunday school lessons to groups of young ladies for fifty years and believed that God sent his only son to die for our sins that we might might be saved.

Mary Jane excelled at everything she did. She went to cinncinati school played.basketball, graduated early at.16.and went to business school in Springfield mo. She married Irvin and they made their first home together there.When they moved to Ferndale, Mi outside Detroit, Mary Jane worked as a receptionist at Commando Tool and Die in Troy, Mi. That business eventually became Piece Maker and she worked her way up to become a purchasing agent, and the executive assistant to the president of the company.

She loved both indoor and outdoor activites. Mom enjoyed ice skating, horseback riding, shooting skeet with my dad and gardening. My dad grew every kind of vegetable yiu can imagine and whatever he brought in from the garden she froze or canned. Nothing wasted.

She adored her grandchildren a d great grandchildren a d would get outside to shoot hoops with them or throw the baseball around.

Mary Jane is preceded in death by her parents Earl and Zylpha Smith, two brothers William (Sonny) Smith and his wife Florine, John (Buck) Smith and his wife Deannie, her husband Irvin Welch Palone, and a grandson Joshua Cole Smith.She is survived by a daughter, Gina Lynn Palone of Stilwell, a grandson.Justin Lane Earley of waco, Texas, grandson Aaron Welch Earley and Kelli Spanier and their children Jayden Lee, Kadden Welch, Aaron Irvin and Madeline Renee of Stilwell Oklahoma. In addition Jane is survived by her sister Clara Jenece Smith Baker of Siloam Springs, AR and a host of nieces and nephews, cousins, and friends.