Jane Hurd Ferree, age 76, of St. Petersburg, Florida died Monday, July 8, 2013 at her summer home in Glendale Springs, North Carolina A memorial service will be held at 10:00 A.M. Sunday, July 14, 2013 at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church of the Frescoes in Glendale Springs with Father Charles Supin and Deacon Shirley Long officiating. Entombment of the urn will follow in the church columbarium. Jane Hurd Ferree was born in Knox County Tennessee on Saturday, August 8, 1936 to the late Edward Floyd and Newel Hooper Hurd. She Graduated from Cocke County High School in Newport, Tennessee and attended the University of Tennessee. She served as a Red Cross Volunteer in Japan during the Vietnam War. She is survived by three sons, Alan Christner III of Simpsonville, Kentucky; Edward Hurd Christner of Largo, Florida; Richard Randolph Christner of St. Petersburg, Florida; a daughter, Pamela Ann Christner of Seminole, Florida; three sisters, Francis Mullen of Newport, Tennessee, Sandra Scott of Nashville, Tennessee, Annabelle Hurd of Hendersonville, North Carolina; five grandchildren; one great-grandchild; several nieces; several nephews. In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by a grandson, Edward Christner Jr. and her grandfather, former Tennessee Governor Ben W. Hooper.