Deitch, Jaun (Rowell) Lee

3/15/2011

Jaun (Rowell) Lee Deitch, 79, former part time local pastor at Hawkinsville and Talcottville UMCs, passed away on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, at St. Luke's Memorial Hospital, after a long illness. Mrs. Lee was an active member of Boonville United Methodist Church.

For twenty years she served as pastor of the Hawkinsville United Methodist Church; during some of those years she pastored the Talcottville United Methodist Church. For many years she taught Sunday school, and was a frequent speaker on farm programs on radio station W.B.R.V.  Jaun was also an active group leader of A.A. and Alateen. She was an advocate for farm economics and actively lobbied in Washington D.C. for W.I.F.E. (Women Involved in Farm Economics.)

Her funeral will be Saturday at 10:00 A.M. at the Trainor Funeral Home, Inc. 143 Schuyler St. Boonville, and at 11:00 A.M. at the Boonville United Methodist Church. A spring interment will be in Boonville Cemetery. Visitation hours are Friday 3-7 P.M. at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Boonville United Methodist Church Camp Aldersgtate Scholarship Fund, or to Sunset Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Resident Activity Fund, attention Penny Oaster, 232 Academy St. Boonville, NY 13309.