Jane Cluss Pollock

Jane Cluss Pollock, 86, formerly of Braddock Way, died Wednesday, April 21, 2004 in the Givens Estates Health Care Center. A native of Uniontown, PA and a former resident of Bloomington, Ind., she was the daughter of the late Otto Charles and Helen Shields Cluss and wife of the late Alvin B. Pollock, who died in 1989. Mrs. Pollock was also preceded in death by a son, Timothy F. Pollock and a sister, Helen C. Barnes. Mrs. Pollock was a graduate of Bethany College (W.Va.), Class of 1939, with a degree in Economics and was honored as the first graduating female in that department. She was a member of Calvary Episcopal Church, where she had served as church treasurer, member of the choir, a member of St. Anne's Guild and the Altar Guild. She was a member of the Alpha Xi Delta social sorority and the Psi Iota Xi philanthropic sorority. After raising her five children she worked part-time as an income tax preparer. She is survived by three daughters, Linda J. Davis, and her husband Larry, of Bloomington, Ind., Judith A. Pollock, and her husband Mark Beling, of Breckenridge, Col. and Diane P. Crisp, and her husband Garry, of Asheville, with whom she made her home for 11 years; a son, Daniel H. Pollock, and his wife Marsha, of Orland Park, Ill.; two brothers, John S. Cluss and Charles B. Cluss, both of Uniontown, Pa.; eight grandchildren, Melissa Anderson, Kerry McGarry, Beau and Drew Beling, Kathleen and Matthew Pollock, Lindsay and Jacob Crisp and six great-grandchildren, Zack, Katy and Luke Anderson and Mackenzie, Peyton and Kessler McGarry. Funeral services will be conducted at 3:00 pm Saturday in Calvary Episcopal Church in Fletcher conducted by the Rev. Victor Mansfield, the Rev. Charles M. Furlow, III and the Rev. David W. Sailer. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends immediately following the interment service at the church. Memorials may be made to the Calvary Episcopal Church Music Fund, P.O. Box 187, Fletcher, NC 28732 or to the Memory Assessment Clinic at Givens Estates, 2360 Sweeten Creek Road, Asheville, NC 28803.