“Jean” was born in Albany, NY on October 21, 1925, daughter of the late Chauncey Leo Sears and Maiza Buckmaster Sears. Her mother died when she was an infant, and Jean was raised by her father and later a stepmother Edna Harrison Sears. As a child, she lived in Albany, Buffalo, New Haven, CN, Baltimore, and Camp Hill PA, due to her father’s career in marketing of agricultural machinery. As a young teen during World War II, Jean was a volunteer bicycle warden in New Haven, with duties of helping to inspect the town’s evening blackouts which were strictly enforced in fear of German submarine attack along the US north Atlantic coast. Jean graduated from John Harris High School in Camp Hill, PA.
She completed the nursing program at Temple University in Philadelphia, hoping to be an Army nurse, but was injured during the clinical training and went on to graduate from Washington College in Chestertown, MD with an honors degree in Biology in 1949. She met and married a GI veteran at Washington College, Jack W. Earnshaw of Baltimore, and moved to Baltimore after graduation where she worked for the Baltimore Department of Social Services. She completed her MS in Education at Towson State Teachers’ College (now Towson University). She had 4 children and stayed at home with them until the youngest was in school, and later divorced. In 1973 she married Armand Luke Hebert, a surveyor and safety inspector for KCI engineering. She taught science at Baltimore City College, and Driver’s Education for a private company. Later she worked as a medical technician examining clients for life insurance for various companies. She and Armand moved to Stewartstown, PA when he retired in 1987.
She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Winterstown, PA, and sang in the chorus. She enjoyed reading, watching baseball and old movies on TV.
She is survived by her husband of over 40 years; four children Wendy Jacobs, Laura Erdman, John Earnshaw, and Daniel Earnshaw; six grandchildren Christina Moore, P. Charles Martucci, Elizabeth Sinkler,, Emily Earnshaw, Molly Erdman, Julia Earnshaw; and two great-grandchildren Brenden Brooks and George Sinkler.
Arrangements by Johnson Fosbrink Funeral Home of Towson, Maryland. Memorial Service Friday August 9, 2019 at 11 AM at the chapel at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium, Maryland.