Obituary of Jean Ann Strucker

Jan Strucker Jan Strucker of Arlington, VA died on December 16, 2019 at her residence after a five month battle with complications following heart surgery. She was 65. Born in Trenton, NJ, and raised in Yardley, PA, she resided in Arlington for the past 40 years. Jan was a graduate of Pennsbury High School, Class of 1972, and West Chester State College where she received her BS in Nursing in 1976. Following her mother's footsteps as a Registered Nurse, she worked at St. Mary's Hospital in Langhorne and at Children's Hospital in Washington DC. Fond of travelling to and immersing herself in the cultures of exotic places, she visited the countries of Brazil, Greece, Turkey, Tunisia and the Republic of Georgia where she embraced, and became deeply committed to, their struggle for independence in the early 1990's. She was the daughter of the late Richard A. Strucker and Jean Donnelly Strucker, of Yardley, PA and is survived by her brother Richard E. and his wife, Maggie Strucker of Solebury, PA. A private burial was at St. Ignatius Cemetery in Yardley, PA.