Jean Mary Kepler Doubleday

Jean Mary (Kepler) Doubleday, age 88, of Newton, formerly of Wayne and Wanaque, passed on Sunday, April 14, 2019.

She was born and raised in Clifton, NJ and graduated from Clifton High School with the Class of 1949.  After high school Jean graduated from the Newark Preparatory School. Her first job was with the Walter Kidde Corporation in Belleville where she worked in the secretarial pool. After Jean’s children were grown she worked as a Medical Transcriber for about thirty years before retiring in 2008.

Jean met Ralph Stafford Doubleday, Jr. while she was working at the Walter Kidde Corporation.  They fell in love and married on September 12, 1954 at Saint Paul’s Church in Clifton.  Their wedding reception was at the Lexington Cocktail Lounge in Clifton and they honeymooned in Canada.  Jean and Ralph, or as many knew him “Doub” or “Doubs”, had a loving marriage of sixty-one years before his passing in 2015.

Jean was a parishioner of Saint Mary’s Church in Pompton Lakes for many years.  She and Ralph enjoyed bowling in leagues at the T-Bowl Lanes in Wayne and when Ralph retired from work he became Jean’s bowling coach. Jean will be lovingly remembered for her poppy seed cake, enjoying a Manhattan, summers at the Jersey Shore in Point Pleasant and Long Beach Island, and day trips to the beach at Sandy Hook. Jean will be remembered for her sense of adventure, being soft spoken, always wearing blue, and although she was small in stature she had a huge heart.

She was the loving wife of the late Ralph “Doub” Doubleday (2015); loving mother of Alan Doubleday and his wife Denyce of Phoenix, Geoffrey Doubleday and his wife Karen of Sparta, and Kim Musumeci and her husband Charles of Franklin Lakes; she was the cherished grandmother of Alexander, Cameron, Wyatt, Geoffrey, Christian, Ashley, and CJ. Jean was also the loved sister of the late Eleanor Ungerleider and her surviving husband Arthur of Alexandria, VA.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Tarahumara Children's Hospital Fund; Attn: Rev. David Ungerleider, SJ; PO Box 532233; San Diego, 92153-2233. (if you click on the link above be sure to enter Jean's name in the "In Memory of" section.  The hospital has been sent a letter directing donations in memory of Jean are to be managed by Rev. David Ungerleider.)