Jane (Swedberg) HARBOUR

HARBOUR, SWEDBERG, THOMPSON, SPENCER, WILLIAMS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/18/2008 at 09:47:30

Ames Tribune, Ames, Iowa
December 4, 2007.

November 24, 1918 - December 3, 2007

Jane Harbour, 89, of Ames, died Monday, Dec. 3, at Mary Greeley Medical Center. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 7, at Adams Funeral Home, with the Rev. A. David Digby of First Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, and the Rev. Fred Lewis of First United Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be at Packwood Cemetery in Packwood. Visitation will be from 9 to 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 7, at Adams Funeral Home.

Jane Harbour was born Nov. 24, 1918, in Minneapolis, to Marcus and Eva (Thompson) Swedberg. She married Donald Harbour June 19, 1945. Over the years, she had lived in Bakersfield, Calif., Chatfield, Minn., Jesup, Merrill, Ackley, Dows, Nora Springs, Anthon, Earlham, Packwood and Ames. She graduated from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., and was a teacher and Methodist minister's wife. She attended First Christian Church, Disciples of Christ; St. Aidan's Anglican Church, Limby Church, Bethesda Lutheran Church, St. Johns by the Campus Episcopal Church and First United Methodist Church. She was active in Bible Study Fellowship in Ames, and a member of Eastern Star, Zeta Tau Alpha sorority, United Methodist Women and United Christian Women.

She is survived by one son, Marcus Harbour, of Gering, Neb.; two daughters, Elizabeth Spencer, of Ames, and Nancy Lee Harbour, of Coral Springs, Fla.; one grandson, Matthew Harbour; and two great-grandchildren, Brittany Williams and Matthew Douglas Harbour Jr. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one son, Douglas Harbour; and one brother, Jack Swedberg. Memorials may be given to Heartland Senior Daycare or Food at First.