Sylvia Jane O'Mara of Burlington died June 24, 2023, at Asbury Health and Rehabilitation Center in
Charlotte, NC after a fall broke her left leg requiring surgery .

She is survived by her three children: Robin Renner of Angleton, TX, R. Mark O'Mara and wife Helen of West Lafayette, IN and Sara O'Mara and husband Gary Lang of Charlotte, NC. Jane had three grandchildren; Rachel Eggemeyer, Andy O'Mara and Shannon Crosby and four great grandchildren; Claire, Luke, Eli and Noah Eggemeyer.

Jane was born June 28, 1934, in Richmond, KS at her parents' home on Bungalow Ave. Her parents were Alfred and Naomi Sigler. She was the youngest of three kids: Robert, 1929 and Dorothy Duvall, 1931. Her early years were spent living and attending both grade school and high school in Richmond.

It was Jane's first year in high school when she met a new kid in her class that had just moved to Richmond with his folks. In time, he became the love of her life, Eugene "Red" O'Mara. After they both graduated in 1952. Jane attended and graduated college from Ottawa University with a teaching degree while Red joined the Marines . It was during the Korean War that Jane started writing Red. He said it was her letters that helped him to keep his sanity and he fell in love with her. He proposed to her in a letter, and she accepted. Jane had been teaching at the Lincoln grade school and traveled out to the Mare Island Naval Base in Vallejo, CA and married Red in 1954. After Red completed his enlistment, they moved back to Richmond and welcomed the birth of Robin in 1955 and Mark in 1958. In 1959, Red reenlisted, however this time it was in the Army. Red was assigned to the Army Security Agencies (ASA), the Army equivalent of the NSA. During Red's second military career, Jane and the kids lived in Germany, Thailand, Georgia, Washington, Massachusetts, California (where Sara was born in 1969) and Kansas. After retiring from the Army, Red tried a couple of different careers in Kansas before Jane, Sara and Red settled in Burlington while he had his second career at the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant. Jane started working part time at Hoover's Thriftway and was still there when Red died in 2013. Jane moved to Indiana where Mark and his family resides and then at the end of 2020 she moved to Charlotte, NC and was cared for by Sara and her husband.

Memorial contributions can be made to Richmond United Methodist Church or to the ASPCA and may be sent in care of Jones Funeral Home.