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 Ray Napoleon Moses. She would live various places over her childhood, but she always joked about her “hillbilly” accent slipping through.

In her teen years she she spent some time living in Jamesville, where 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. Nothing else could have.

Always interested in learning, she would graduate NCSU with a degree in chemistry and regret that life prevented her from getting the PhD she’d always intended. Instead she would find herself postmaster in Jamesville until her retirement.

Retirement for her was just as busy. Her life had always been full of organizations and causes too numerous to list, as well as helping her husband in his fiberglassing business, but now there was more time for all of it. She became a Jamesville town board member, and eventually mayor. When her husband became mayor as well, someone joked that voting for him was getting “two for the price of one”. It was 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. 

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