THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, November 3, 1996 TAG: 9611030017
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Mrs. Janice Ann McCoy, 56, died Friday, Nov. 1, 1996.
Mrs. McCoy was born in Richmond to Richard and Eunice Todd on Sept. 16, 1940. She was a graduate of Great Bridge High School, Class of 1958, and Wheaton College, Class of 1962. She married Jerry McCoy on June 30, 1962, and was a historical interpreter for Colonial Williamsburg.
Janice was a person of quiet strength, gentle Spirit and a deep religious faith that she revealed in the way she lived every day of her life. She reached out to people, offering friendship, a helping hand, words of comfort or encouragement to everyone she encountered. No one who turned to Janice in need was ever turned away. She made people of all ages and conditions feel comfortable around her, and more comfortable with themselves.
She had a wonderfully clear, common sense but kindly intelligence of the sort that can always see a way to reconcile conflict, or find solutions where others see only problems. There was a deep vein of poetry in her that enabled her to see the beauty in everyday life, and to help those around her to see it too.
Janice had a talent for music and fine needlework, but the greatest gift was her ability to bring out the best in everyone she met. She seemed somehow able to impart something of her own spirit to others, to put people in touch with the best part of themselves and give them a new confidence in their ability to live and work together in harmony and do the right thing.
She is survived by her husband, Jerry McCoy; a daughter, Heather Slining of Williamsburg; a son, Christopher McCoy of Tulsa, Okla.; her parents, Richard and Eunice Todd of Chesapeake; a sister, Linda Wells of Great Bridge, Chesapeake; and a brother, Richard C. Todd of Charlotte, N.C.
A memorial service will be held at 8:30 a.m. Monday in Bruton Parish Episcopal Church, Williamsburg. The family will receive friends from 2 to 5 p.m. today in Amory Funeral Home, Grafton. Burial will be in Merriam Christian Chapel Cemetery, Merriam, Ind.
Gifts may be made to ``The Janice McCoy Memorial for Geddy House Children's Program'' through Colonial Williamsburg Development Office.
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