Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Jane Smedley PIKE
Jane Pike Buxton, 88, of Mohnton, Pa., a retired guidance counselor at Lower Merion High School, died Monday, March 14, at Spruce Manor Rehabilitation Center in Reading from complications of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
Mrs. Buxton graduated from Nether Providence High School and earned a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College. She lettered in field hockey, basketball, and lacrosse in high school and college.
After earning a master's degree in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania, she taught Spanish and English at Haverford High School for 12 years. While at Haverford, she earned a certificate in guidance counseling.
From 1957 to 1959, she was a guidance counselor at Marple Newtown High School before joining the faculty at Lower Merion. She was head of the school's guidance counseling department when she retired in 1986. During her last year at Lower Merion, Mrs. Buxton spent a sabbatical semester volunteering in the admissions department of Kutztown University.
Since 1957, she had been married to Philip T. Buxton, an electrical engineer. They met in University City when she was taking courses at Penn and he was taking courses at Drexel. They lived for many years in Valley Forge before moving to Berks County in 1976.
Mrs. Buxton and her husband circumnavigated the globe together and were able to fulfill her travel ambitions to walk the Great Wall of China, visit the Taj Mahal, and see the pyramids of Egypt.
They also traveled abroad to attend Soroptimist International conventions in Italy, Australia, England, and Finland.
Mrs. Buxton was former president and treasurer of the Main Line chapter of Soroptimist International, an organization for business and professional women who work to improve the lives of women and girls in local communities and throughout the world.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Buxton is survived by sisters Anne Pike and Ruth Fooskas.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 22, at J. Nelson Rigby Funeral Home, 1 W. Baltimore Ave., Media. Friends may call from 10 a.m. Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery, Broomall.
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