Jane Anderson Chambers
November 23, 1927 – June 15, 2021
JANE CHAMBERS 1927-2021
Jane Chambers, née Anderson, died on June 15th, 2021 of multiple medical problems. She was 93. Jane was born November 23, 1927 in Oakland, California to Harbart Edgar Anderson, head electrician for the Port of Oakland, and Cecile Amanda Tunnell, a milliner and seamstress. Jane was a devoted sister to her younger brother, William Edward Anderson, who died in 2018. Jane grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and earned a B.A. in history from the University of California, Berkeley where she was a member of the Delta Gamma sorority. She married Robert Warner “Bob” Chambers in 1949, started a family and, soon after, moved to Vancouver, British Columbia where Bob completed his post-doctoral work in biochemistry. In 1955, when Bob joined the faculty of the New York University Medical School, they moved to Tarrytown, New York. Jane raised their three children and was active in community activities such as Girl Scouts, Friends of the Library and the Parent-Teacher Association. A lifelong reader, she created a home environment that valued books and music. Her garden with its winding paths, banks of azaleas, and dogwood trees was spectacular in New York springtime. It was sometimes referred to as a mini-Butchart Gardens. She was a devoted owner of beagles, some who were naughty, one who was a Westminster Dog Show champion. While raising her children she became a skilled canoeist who paddled the Albany River in northern Ontario, Lake Athabasca and the Fond du Lac River in Saskatchewan, and the Quetico-Superior Boundary Waters on the Ontario/Minnesota border. In 1981 she and Bob moved to Lake of the Woods, Hubley, Nova Scotia where Bob pursued his work as a cancer researcher at Dalhousie University. Jane embraced her life in Canada. She gave up the New York Yankees and became an avid Toronto Blue Jays fan. She was a committed volunteer with VON, helped establish the Lake Of The Woods Playground and the Bluff Hiking Trail, part of the Halifax (BLT) Rails-to-Trails system. She and Bob remained in their home at the edge of Black Lake until she was admitted Halifax Infirmary, QUII on June 13, 2021. Jane is survived by Bob and their three children, Robin Chambers Emerson, Nancy Chambers Jamieson and James Russell Chambers all living now in Oregon, her sister-in-law, Gretchen Pfeiffer Anderson in California and two grandchildren—Katherine Anne Chambers and Thomas Xuan Upper. She was predeceased by her oldest grandchild in 2016, Kyle Russell Chambers. She will be missed by family, friends, neighbors, her Springer spaniel, Julie, her garden, and most of all by Bob.
Our most sincere sympathies to the family and friends of Jane Anderson Chambers November 23 1927 June 15 2021..
Death notice for the town of: Dartmouth, Province: Nova Scotia