Judith S. Vane

Judith Singer Vane, died Saturday, April 4, 2015, at her residence. The relatives and friends of Judith S. Vane are invited to attend her Funeral Service at 4:00 PM, Monday, April 6, 2015, at Temple K.K.Beth Elohim, 90 Hasell St. Burial will be private. Mrs. Vane was born in Chicago in 1928, to Mary and Julius Singer. The family moved to Charleston when she was 9, after her father's early death. Her mother went into the antiques business here with her brother, Herman Schindler, Mrs. Vane's uncle. Judith Singer and Jack Vane married in 1950 and offered those who met them a model for a happy marriage until Mr. Vane's death in 2011. Her mother, her uncle and her sister, Pessha, had died earlier. Deeply involved in the theater, Mrs. Vane was a veteran of the Footlight Players (long resident in the Dock Street Theater) and an ardent supporter of the Spoleto Festival from the outset. For over 35 years she served as Spoleto's Hospitality Chair, Board Member and Board Member Emerita. She was an enthusiastic participant in countless community activities, from education to the arts, to enrichment programs for children, to support for families in need. She was awarded the Post and Courier's Jefferson Award for community service in 2006 in recognition of her work with Spoleto and the United Way's 211 Hotline. She is survived by her sons and daughters-in-law, Jay Steven (Rachel) of Sullivans Island and Adam Nathan (Kathleen) of New York City, and her granddaughters, Sarah Reed Vane, Catherine Elizabeth Beaty and Sarah Grace Beaty of Sullivans Island. Her other survivors include her niece, Judith Mazo of Washington, DC and nephew, Mark Mazo of Chevy Chase, MD, and a multitude of devoted friends well beyond Charleston, Washington and New York, whom she counted as family and who loved her as one of their own. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Mrs. Vane's memory to East Cooper Community Outreach (ECCO) or the Spoleto Festival, Charleston.