Obituary of Jane Patrick Eiman

On the morning of December 26, 2015, Jane Patrick Eiman died at the home of her daughter, Jeannette, in Pocono Pines, PA. She was 89 years old, and was in her favorite place – the kitchen – at the time of her death. Jane was born on May 21, 1926 in Dover, Ohio, to James Estep and Esther Shaweker Patrick. She was their eldest child and only daughter, and sister to James S. Patrick. Jane led an ordinary extraordinary life. After graduating from Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio in 1947 with a degree in Food Science, she joined the first group of students to travel to Holland with the Netherlands Office for Foreign Student Relations, to work on potato farms as part of a post-war relief and reconciliation initiative. Upon her return to the US in 1948, she pursued a career in Nutrition at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and at Germantown Hospital in Philadelphia. She later joined Campbell’s Soup Company in Camden, NJ where she developed recipes and products in the Creative Foods Department. She retired from Campbells’s first in 1958, and after rejoining the company in 1983, finally in 1991. She also created and ran VIPYC, a yacht chartering company in the Carribbean with her husband, Bill, for many years. Jane met and married William Janvier Eiman, from Bala Cynwyd, PA in 1958. Together they renovated their home in Society Hill, traveled extensively by sailboat in the Carribbean, and raised a daughter, Jeannette Eiman Boulind, of London, UK. Bill died on November 26, 1998. Jane was an active contributor to her community, volunteering as a docent at the Samuel Powel House and as a literacy mentor at the EM Stanton School/Bainbridge House for many years. She loved her extended family, including nieces Allison Adam (Andover, MA) and Sheila Hurley (New Philadelphia, OH), nephews James Patrick (Darien, CT) and Kevin Patrick (Kent, OH), and cousin Charles Hodge (Kansas City, KS). In addition to spending time with her daughter, grandchildren, Henry and Lucie Boulind, and son-on-law, Oliver Boulind, her great joy was cuddling and walking her dog, Mabel. She will be missed all.