Jayne Ficklin Bozeman

Born Jayne Ficklen Brown, she was the daughter of the late Charles Francisco Brown and Alice Marshall Howison Brown of Greeneville. The Brown family founded the American Calendar Company in the 1800’s. Jayne grew up in the First Presbyterian Church in Greeneville. She graduated from East Tennessee State, earning a teaching degree, and then attended the University of Tennessee Knoxville, receiving a master’s degree in Library Science. She was the librarian at Tusculum View Elementary School. During World War II, Jayne and her husband, Charles Wells Rhoades, lived in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where Charles was a chemist, working for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Jayne became a member of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts. During that time she lived in Greeneville, Johnson City, and Ernestville, Tennessee. She also lived in Plantation Key and Winter Haven, Florida. Jayne attended the local Christian Science Church in each area. She returned to Greeneville in her later years, attending the Johnson City Church again.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a sister, Alice “Sunny” Brown Washburn; a daughter, Janet Rhoades Emerson; and husbands: Charles Rhoades, Kenneth Shaw, Thomas Crane, and France Bozeman.

Jayne is survived by a sister, Virginia Royce Brown Edwards, and a daughter, Genevieve Rhoades Reed (husband, John Reed, Jr.), all of Greeneville; grandchildren: Alison Reed Ashe (husband, Dee Ashe) of Knoxville, Terra Miller of Wildwood, Missouri, Kristy Shiffman of Grove City, Ohio, and Carolyn Emerson Mitchell of Barnhart, Missouri; great grandchildren: Fiver and Lucy Ashe, and Mason and Claire Mitchell; first cousin, Pam Junker; and several nieces and nephews.

Jayne requested cremation and no service.