May 13, 1915 – Aug 6, 2018

BASTROP, La. — Graveside services for Jane Plummer, 103, who died Monday, Aug. 6, 2018, at Magnolia Village in Natchez, will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Christ Church Cemetery in Bastrop, La., with the Rev. James G. Benbrook officiating.
Mrs. Plummer was born May 13, 1915, in Bastrop, where she grew up, and was the daughter of Stephen Benjamin Shell and Jennie Rosalie Harrington Shell.
She was a 1936 graduate of Normal College (now Northwestern) with a bachelor’s degree in education. Having taught school in Bonita, La., and Elm Grove, La., for a total of four years, she decided to make a career change and moved to Indiana to become the wife of Joseph M. Plummer. She was a homemaker during the 12 years that followed before returning to her teaching profession at Portage High School in Indiana.
After her husband died in 1973, she moved back to Louisiana in 1979, and began a new phase of her life. She was active in the Episcopal church and enjoyed concerts and play performances during a few years in Monroe, La. In 1983, she took responsibility of raising her granddaughter, Polly, and returned to her role of homemaker, moving first to Boutte, La., and later to Camden, Ark. After Polly left for college, Jane moved to Lake St. John, where her daughter, “Janie” resides, in 1999. She became an active member of the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in Vidalia, where she was active in the altar guild, served as reader and was active in Sunday school. She was also an active member of the Ferriday Garden Club for a number of years.
In 2010, at almost the age of 95, she moved to an assisted living facility when she could no longer drive her car. She rarely missed a Sunday. Her church friends would see that she had a ride to church. She was greatly loved by her church family and the family she adopted at Magnolia Village. She called every staff member and every resident by their name. She was known for her pep talks and would not allow any moaning and complaining to take place in her presence. She was fully dressed and ready for her morning cup of coffee by 6 a.m. every day. Motivational speeches were her specialty and she loved to solve word games and crossword puzzles. She was an avid reader of classics and biographies until the very end of her life — could read the small print without glasses if there was enough light. Her beautiful script penmanship in notes her friends and family continued until only days before her life ended.
Plummer was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her only son, Tammany Manford Plummer; three sisters, Elizabeth Rogers, Annese Rogers Crew and Millicent Shell; and one niece, Elizabeth Crew Dixon.
Survivors include two daughters, Jane Plummer Vaughn and husband, Arthur “Al” of Ferriday and Mary Ann Burkhalter of Glendora, Calif.; two granddaughters, Amelia Louise “Amy” Davenport and husband, John, of Placentia, Calif., and Polly Marie Niemann and husband, Chris, of Hobart, Ind.; three grandsons, Christopher Vaughan and wife, Susan, of Ferriday, Gregory Vaughan of Dallas and John Burkhalter and friend, Shelly Hughes, of Grand Terrace, Calif.; four great-grandsons, Joseph Turner “Jay” Vaughan and William Christopher Vaughan of Ferriday, Thomas Gregory Vaughan of Little Rock, Ark., and Conner Joseph Niemann of Hobart ; three great-granddaughters, Emily Caroline Vaughan of Little Rock, Ark., Ashlee Stuehrmann and husband, Kevin, of Glendora, Calif., and Jane Madison Burkhalter of Hesperia, Calif.; two great-great-granddaughters, Kailie and Avery Stuehrmann of Glendora; two nieces, Martha Jane Saxon of Fort Worth, Texas, and Alice Warren and husband, Ken, of Mountain View, Ark.; and one nephew, Louis Crew and wife, Mary, of Bethel, Ark.
Special thanks to the staff and many volunteers at Magnolia Village, Dr. Kenneth Stubbs, Deaconess Hospice and the Br. Vincent Ignatius, OSB from Trinity Episcopal Church.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at youngsfh.com.