Jane Bay

Bay, Jane Evertson Phillips, 86 years, died at home on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. She was born in Brooklyn, NY, on July 28, 1927 and was the daughter of Melita Ahl and John Peterson Phillips. She was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, Kenneth King Bay, and her grandson Michael L. Bay. She is survived by her children, Keith Alden Bay and his wife Linda of Milwaukee, WI, and Deborah Bay Hastings and her husband Nelson, of Cincinnati, OH, and four grandchildren, Kevin Phillips Bay of Oakland, CA, and Bryn, Aiden, and Koll Hastings of Cincinnati, OH. She is also survived by her sisters Elizabeth Brisson of Peabody, MA, Deborah Haviland of Rockland, ME, and Francesca Malley of Cambridge, MD; a dear sister-in-law Janet Bay of Traverse City, MI, as well as 28 nieces and nephews. Mrs. Bay graduated in 1949 from Skidmore College with a BA in Art. She worked as a draftsman in New York City and Woodstock, NY, before meeting her husband, spending the summer of 1950 on an archeological expedition in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska and ultimately settling in Lynchburg, VA, to raise her family. She continued to pursue her creative interests through rockhounding, hiking, pottery, silver jewelry, woodworking and poetry in addition to being an accomplished sailor and enthusiastic amateur architect. She was a life-member of the Appalachian Trail Club, helping maintain trails in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. As a dedicated sailor, she and her husband raced their Day Sailer and Catalina 25 together for many years. Memorials may be made to the Elk-Skegemog Lakes Association, PO Box 8, Elk Rapids, MI 49629 or the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, 6 Herndon Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21403.