1929
Mary
2015
Mary Jane Courtney
November 14, 1929 — May 26, 2015
Mary Jane (Badger) Courtney died in her daughter's home surrounded by her children and their spouses in Carpentersville, Illinois, Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Mary was 85 years old.
Mary was born November 14, 1929 to Ralph W. and Nettie M. (Mottier) Badger in Portsmouth, NH. She graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1947 and from the Fay School in Boston, MA in 1949. She worked for her father at the Badger Farms Creamery and later at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. From 1952-1955, Mary served in the USAF as an instructor teaching morse code and maintaining radar. She was a HAM radio operator and met her husband, Galen R. Courtney, of 56 years on the HAM radio at the Kessler Air Force Base where they were both stationed.
Mary accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior at a young age and served Him her entire life, holding clerical positions at various evangelical ministries in Wheaton, IL, where she and Galen raised their children. In 1974, she earned an associate's degree from Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. In her retirement she volunteered for the Women's Auxiliary Fire Department in Rumney, and provided 20 years of volunteer bookkeeping services to the New England Fellowship of Evangelicals (NEF) in Rumney, NH, where she and Galen lived and served until his death in 2011.
Mary is preceded in death by her husband, Galen R. Courtney, her parents, Ralph W. and Nettie M. Badger and her sister, Phyllis H. (Badger) Clark. She is survived by three children and four grandsons: David R. (Dotty) Courtney and their son, Timothy R. Courtney; Cheryl A. (Peter) Semick and their son, Chad E. (Jessica) Cartwright, Carl E. Courtney and his sons, Tiemo B. Courtney and Gavin Elliott. Mary is also survived by three great-grandchildren: Ethan, Sarah and Issac Cartwright and a nephew Tom Clark of Arizona.
In lieu of flowers, Mary requested that gifts be made to the NEF, P.O. Box 599, Rumney, NH 03266 (rumneybibleconference.org).
Mary was born November 14, 1929 to Ralph W. and Nettie M. (Mottier) Badger in Portsmouth, NH. She graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1947 and from the Fay School in Boston, MA in 1949. She worked for her father at the Badger Farms Creamery and later at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. From 1952-1955, Mary served in the USAF as an instructor teaching morse code and maintaining radar. She was a HAM radio operator and met her husband, Galen R. Courtney, of 56 years on the HAM radio at the Kessler Air Force Base where they were both stationed.
Mary accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior at a young age and served Him her entire life, holding clerical positions at various evangelical ministries in Wheaton, IL, where she and Galen raised their children. In 1974, she earned an associate's degree from Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. In her retirement she volunteered for the Women's Auxiliary Fire Department in Rumney, and provided 20 years of volunteer bookkeeping services to the New England Fellowship of Evangelicals (NEF) in Rumney, NH, where she and Galen lived and served until his death in 2011.
Mary is preceded in death by her husband, Galen R. Courtney, her parents, Ralph W. and Nettie M. Badger and her sister, Phyllis H. (Badger) Clark. She is survived by three children and four grandsons: David R. (Dotty) Courtney and their son, Timothy R. Courtney; Cheryl A. (Peter) Semick and their son, Chad E. (Jessica) Cartwright, Carl E. Courtney and his sons, Tiemo B. Courtney and Gavin Elliott. Mary is also survived by three great-grandchildren: Ethan, Sarah and Issac Cartwright and a nephew Tom Clark of Arizona.
In lieu of flowers, Mary requested that gifts be made to the NEF, P.O. Box 599, Rumney, NH 03266 (rumneybibleconference.org).
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