Sister served in the apostolate of elementary education in Kentucky, Ohio and Louisiana for 26 years and later in art education in Arizona and Kentucky. Sister Mary Jane taught art in Kentucky at Holy Family School, Louisville, from 1974-79 and at St. Helen School, Shively, from 1974-76 and also served at Our Lady of Peace Hospital, as art therapist from 1976-85. She served in personal family ministry in Nelson County, Ky., and as adult art instructor at the Motherhouse, Nazareth, from 1985-95. Sister Mary Jane worked at the Nelson County Library, Bardstown, in genealogy research from 1990-2006 and at the same time, served as instructor in art at the Motherhouse from 1991-2006 when she became a resident at Nazareth Home, Louisville.
Survivors include: five brothers: William Alfred Hutchins of Bardstown, Ky.; Gilbert V. Hutchins of Gravel Switch, Ky.; James Paul Hutchins of Tucson, Ariz.; Joseph M. Hutchins of Louisville, Ky. and J. Leo Hutchins of Palm Bay, Fla; three sisters, Ann E. Cecil and Pearl Durbin of New Haven, Ky.; and Mary Jane Puckett of Tony, Ala.; and her Sisters in the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth.
