EDUCATOR JEAN PITTS HAS DIED - First Special Educator In Calhoun

(12/16/2002)
Well-known Calhoun educator Jean E. Pitts has died at 75. The Grantsville resident passed away December 14th, 2002 in Minnie Hamilton Health Care Center following a long illness.

Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, December 21, at 1 p.m. in the Victory Baptist Church, Grantsville with the Rev. Mike Worf and Rev. Charles McDonald officiating. Interment will be in the Freeman Cemetery, West Union.

Friends may call at the Stump Funeral Home on Friday from 6-9 p.m. and at the church one hour prior to services.

She was a retired elementary teacher in Calhoun and for many years was the first special education teacher in the county and the first co-coordinator of the Special Education Program for the county school system.

She graduated from Glenville State College and received her Masters Degree from West Virginia University. She graduated from Normantown High School where she was a cheerleader, she was a member of the Victory Baptist Church.

Her husband, Donald M. Pitts, passed away in April, 2001.

She is survived by a son, Donald S. Pitts of Grantsville and a daughter, Robin Hannah of Parkersburg. Also a brother, Joe Roberts of Coolville, Ohio, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents, Royce and Hazel A. Miller Roberts Lamp; a brother, Jack Roberts and a grandson, Jason Todd Hannah.