Mrs. Arthur C. Jaynes

Mrs. Jaynes worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Wakefield Congregational Church for several years.She also had taught music at the Perkins School in Lancaster, Mass., and was a teacher at Franklin Elementary School, in Wakefield, and Woodville Elementary School.She taught private piano and organ lessons in her home for several years.

She was a member of Kosmos Club, The North Shore Organ Society, EMARC, Wakefield Teacher's Association and was active in the Alleppo Temple Shrine events.She was an active member of the Senior Center in Merrimack and helped form the musical band, The Mamas and the Pops.She also was on the Board of Merrimack Community Concert Band, a Friend of Merrimack Public Library and volunteered at a tutoring program for adults ; Bear Hill Retirement Center ; and at Greenbriar, Hunt and the Courville at Nashua retirement homes, playing her keyboard.

Mrs. Jaynes played piano and organ at several concerts and plays for different organizations.She also performed duets, which were taped on local cable, billed as The Blissful Jayne, with Maybelle Bliss at the Wilmington (Mass.) Arts Council.She enjoyed attending Boston Symphony, Tanglewood and Nashua Symphony Orchestra concerts and performing for Thornton Ferry Elementary School events.She was a supporter of the Chorale Society, All State Concert Band and Wakefield Repertory Theater.At the Senior Center, she played a daily Aloha's Sound of Music concert.

She was an avid Scrabble, cribbage and card player.

She was a lifelong member of the Greenwood Union Church and Bible study group and was church organist.

Mrs. Jaynes attended Wakefield schools and graduated from Boston University School of Music in 1935, where she had played in an orchestra under former Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler.

She was predeceased by a son, Jonathan Robert Jaynes ; and two brothers Roland and Robert Fall.