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IN LOVING MEMORY OF Jane Frances Okoth
Jane Frances
Okoth
d. Mar 1, 2018
Jane Frances Okoth's Obituary
Jane Frances Okoth, 60, of Princeton, died on March 1, 2018 in the presence of her sister, Atuki Turner and niece, Natalie Turner, after a long battle with breast cancer.
Born to Evelyn and Lawrence Okoth, Jane was the second of eleven children. She was educated at St. Mary's College, Namagunga and then at Makerere Medical School. Not long after becoming the second woman to complete medical school from her tribe, the Jopadhola, she was forced to flee a turbulent Uganda. Praying her daughter Simone's crying would not alarm the authorities, she snuck across the Kenyan boarder while pregnant with her son, Pinto. As a physician, she was one of few Ugandan refugees able to find work, and she supported more than her own family in those trying times. Through determination and more than a bit of luck, she was relocated to the United States by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
With only what she could fit in suitcases and the love and support of family, friends, and the church she made her way to Metuchen, NJ and then Harrisburg, PA, where her sons, Lawrence and Paul were born. From Harrisburg, she moved to Lewisburg, PA, where she began a two-decade long career at the Federal Bureau of Prisons, providing health care to some of the most vulnerable members of our communities. She was forever grateful for the personal and professional relationships she forged at her posts in Lewisburg, Philadelphia and New York.
In recent years, she was enjoying semi-retirement and was beginning to imagine how she might return to Uganda to practice medicine there, as she intended to do from her first medical training. She founded a non-profit and hoped to offer health care services to people from her village affected by Sickle Cell Anemia. After her diagnosis, she expanded her idea to include providing mammograms, therapy, and pain management to women in the village.
Gone too soon, Jane will be sorely missed by her children, Simone Awor, Pinto Adhola, Lawrence Obote, Paul Mbusa, and Azuka Okeke, her spouse, Yoga Adhola, and her sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews, family, and friends.
Visitation will be held at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ 08540 on Saturday, March 10, 2018 beginning 4:00pm immediately followed by services at 5pm. All are invited to a reception from 6:30pm to 9:00pm in the church fellowship hall. Following services in Princeton, Jane's life will be celebrated at her home and final resting place in Uganda.
Born to Evelyn and Lawrence Okoth, Jane was the second of eleven children. She was educated at St. Mary's College, Namagunga and then at Makerere Medical School. Not long after becoming the second woman to complete medical school from her tribe, the Jopadhola, she was forced to flee a turbulent Uganda. Praying her daughter Simone's crying would not alarm the authorities, she snuck across the Kenyan boarder while pregnant with her son, Pinto. As a physician, she was one of few Ugandan refugees able to find work, and she supported more than her own family in those trying times. Through determination and more than a bit of luck, she was relocated to the United States by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
With only what she could fit in suitcases and the love and support of family, friends, and the church she made her way to Metuchen, NJ and then Harrisburg, PA, where her sons, Lawrence and Paul were born. From Harrisburg, she moved to Lewisburg, PA, where she began a two-decade long career at the Federal Bureau of Prisons, providing health care to some of the most vulnerable members of our communities. She was forever grateful for the personal and professional relationships she forged at her posts in Lewisburg, Philadelphia and New York.
In recent years, she was enjoying semi-retirement and was beginning to imagine how she might return to Uganda to practice medicine there, as she intended to do from her first medical training. She founded a non-profit and hoped to offer health care services to people from her village affected by Sickle Cell Anemia. After her diagnosis, she expanded her idea to include providing mammograms, therapy, and pain management to women in the village.
Gone too soon, Jane will be sorely missed by her children, Simone Awor, Pinto Adhola, Lawrence Obote, Paul Mbusa, and Azuka Okeke, her spouse, Yoga Adhola, and her sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews, family, and friends.
Visitation will be held at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ 08540 on Saturday, March 10, 2018 beginning 4:00pm immediately followed by services at 5pm. All are invited to a reception from 6:30pm to 9:00pm in the church fellowship hall. Following services in Princeton, Jane's life will be celebrated at her home and final resting place in Uganda.
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Funeral Service
March
10
Saturday
Trinity Church
Starts at 5:00 pm
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