Obituary Record

Jeanne K. Warner, artist and secretarial school director, died Wednesday, January 17, 2001, of bile duct malignancy at Barnes Extended Care in St. Louis, MO. She was 81.

Mrs. Warner began working as an artist in the 1930s while studying with Chiura Obata, the venerable landscape painter. She continued her craft for the past 21 years while living in Bay St. Louis, MS.

She began her study of art in her native state of California. In the 1960s she studied with Barclay Sheakes of Warwick, Virginia, and later with John Chase of New Orleans.

Mrs. Warner traveled widely and lived for many years in Spain and Turkey. Her impressionist painting style was strongly influenced by these experiences.

In the 1970s Mrs. Warner was Associate Director and then Director of the Garner Secretarial School in New Orleans. She and her husband, Herbert D. Warner closed the school in 1979 and moved to Bay St. Louis, MS.

Mrs. Warner received a diploma from Post College in San Francisco.

Among survivors are her sons, Ray Warner of Oceanside, California (currently residing in Beaumont, Texas), and Mike Warner of St. Louis, Missouri; a stepdaughter, Ruth Clair Warner Post of Metairie, La.; three granddaughters, Laura Scoggin of DeSoto, Missouri, Debora Lynne Hibbs of Metairie, La., and Patricia Eileen Smith of Covington, La., and three great-grandchildren, Amanda, Ian, and Quentin Scoggin of DeSoto, Missouri.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, February 10 at 11 a.m. at St. Rose de Lima Church at 301 S. Necaise Ave., Bay St. Louis, Ms. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the George E. Ohr Museum, 136 George E. Ohr Street, Biloxi, MS 39531.

Source: Sun Herald