Jane Peacock Inglish, 86, died peacefully at Country Care Convalescent Hospital in Atascadero, Ca, on May 29, 2007. A service will be held at 1:00 pm on Saturday, June 2 at Chapel of the Roses, Atascadero with visitation from 11 am – 1 pm. Burial will be at 1:00 pm on Tuesday, June 5, at Mount Vernon Memorial Park & Mortuary in Sacramento, Ca.

Mrs. Inglish was born December 19, 1920 to Grace Irene Mahaffey and Ralph Earl Peacock in Protection, Kansas. The family moved to Colorado and Mrs. Inglish graduated from La Junta High School in 1938. She attended Colorado University at Boulder on scholarship where she met her future husband of 54 years, Creighton B. Inglish. She then entered the Children’s Hospital School of Nursing and studied at the University Hospital in Minneapolis, graduating in 1942. She was honored to have worked with Sister Kenny (known for her work with victims of Polio), who in 1952 was considered the most admirable woman in the United States (beating out Eleanor Roosevelt). It was also during this time that she met her lifelong friend, Barbara (Bixby) Forrester, who graduated from the same school.

Following her graduation, she enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps and was commissioned as a 1st Lieutenant by Medical Detachment, 29th General Hospital at Fort George G. Meade, Ma. She served four years during World War II in New Caledonia treating troops injured in the Pacific Theatre.

After the war, she married Creighton Inglish and moved to Denver to start a family. Mr. Inglish was a pharmacist and had named their drug store “Lane Drug” after their first son. Two years later, they moved to California where their second son was born in Tarzana. A third child, a little baby girl, was adopted in 1963, in Ventura, Ca, thus fulfilling their dream of a complete family.

For the remainder of her life, Mrs. Inglish was a wife, mother and source of joy for everyone around her. She was very active in the lives of her children having been a den mother, president of the PTA, a Grey Lady at Ventura Girl’s School, and an officer in P.E.O. She was keenly interested in youth sports, never missing a baseball, football, waterpolo, swimming or wrestling game. She also had a very special spot in her heart for the L.A. Dodgers and the warm voice of Dodger announcer, Vin Scully.

She loved to play poker, bridge and gin rummy. She always said she really wasn’t any good but would always find a way to beat unsuspecting ladies from the senior center.

She had a smile for every creature she met and will be remembered for her ability to laugh at everything, even in the face of adversity.

Mrs. Inglish is preceded in death by her husband, Creighton; survived by his sister Doris Reed of Denver, Colo.; a brother and his wife, Sam and Eddie Peacock of La Junta Colo.; children Lane of Saugus, Duane and wife Ingrid of Garden Farms, and Gayle Gipson of Sacramento; seven grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

Donations may be made to the Garden of Eden project at the Country Care Convalescent Hospital, Atascadero, Ca 805-466-0282.