Obituary of Mary Jane Doyle

Mary Jane Doyle, 89, of Stuyvesant, NY passed away peacefully on 19 November 2024. Mary Jane was born to Steve and Jennie Montie on 10 September 1935 in the home of Raymond Czajkowski and Celia Molinski Czajkowski (Jenny Montie's sister) who at the time was living in a farmhouse at 3373 County Road 21, Kinderhook, NY. Her mom Jennie and Celia were very close. She grew up in Stuyvesant at a home her father built at 242 Route 26A. She graduated from Martin Van Buren High School in Kinderhook, NY in 1953. She fell in love with a sailor turned storekeeper and eventual Stuyvesant Postmaster Frank H. Doyle, Jr. and they married in 1956. She worked for a brief time in a Hudson coat factory before they started a family. They soon had 3 sons (Michael, Richard and Frank, III). With her husband working 6-1/2 days per week, Mary Jane took on the job of raising the boys and running the household. They had a local builder and neighbor, Phil Savage, build a house for them in 1957 at 131 Route 26A in Stuyvesant where Mary Jane lived the remainder of her life, thanks to Frank, III and Barbara Doyle and their children moving in with her in 2009. The house was full of the noise of 3 boys and a lot of love and visiting family and parties (lots of parties). Picnics, holiday dinners and visiting friends and relatives meant there was never a quiet moment. It was nothing to have 30 people or more to Thanksgiving dinner or 50 or more to Memorial Day, 4th of July and Labor Day picnics, with horseshoes, badminton, softball and plenty of pool time with tons of food, refreshments and polka music. The first dance steps the boys learned were to polka music. To say that the boys were spoiled was an understatement. There was always dog in the house as well as brief stints with a squirrel, racoon, and goldfish as well as a horse (in the backyard) as well as a series of pools that always got bigger and busier as time went on. The boys always had bikes, but one year 2 dirt bikes and a mini-bike arrived. There was of course an underlying tomboy in Mary Jane who decided to ride the dirt bike one day. The ride ended abruptly when she drove it into the side of the above ground pool, fractured her wrist and put a leak in the pool. There were also pianos, piano lessons (two doors down with Mrs. Ogden of the Methodist Church), trumpets and drums and the once-a-year trip to beach at Atlantic City, NJ (before casinos). There was never a dull moment at the Doyle household. In the meantime, Mary Jane was an active member of Stuyvesant Fire Company #1 Ladies Auxiliary which meant parades in the summer culminating at the Chatham fair. as well as the Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Even with all this going on, Mary Jane and Hopper always had time for "date nights" on the weekend when they went out to dance the night away. While on Sunday after church, everyone would pile in the car just to drive around the countryside. Once the boys were out of the house, Mary Jane went back to work at the Melo Company in Stuyvesant where she worked as the Operations Manager for almost 20 years. But with the house empty and extra money in her pocket, she loved to travel taking many trips with her traveling companion, best friend and neighbor, Patty Rolland. Even when she was home and right up to the very end, there was nothing else she enjoyed more than "going for a ride" with perhaps a stop for ice cream on the way home. Mary Jane is survived by her brother David (Tina – deceased) Montie of Ashland, NY and her sons: Michael (Mary Ellen) Doyle of Edenton, NC and their children Patrick Doyle of Fayetteville, AR and Katherine (Tommy) Stern of Wake Forest, NC. Richard (Teresa) Doyle of Stuyvesant, NY and their children Kyle (Heidi) Doyle and their son Calvin of Astoria Queens, NY and Evan Doyle of Stuyvesant, NY. Frank (Barbara) Doyle, III of Stuyvesant, NY and their children Justin (Fara) Kaylor and their daughter Mercy of Moraga, CA, Shawn Hamm of Stuyvesant, NY and Frank Doyle, IV of Stuyvesant, NY. In case you were counting, that was 3 sons, 7 grandchildren (6 boys and 1 girl) and 2 great grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband, Frank Hopper Doyle, Jr., her mother and father, Steve and Jennie Montie and her sister Eileen (Robert) Brandley. Memorial donations may be made to the Stuyvesant Fire Company #1. Family and friends are invited to gather at Raymond E. Bond Funeral Home, Valatie from 4-6pm on Sunday, November 24th. A funeral service will be held at Raymond E. Bond Funeral Home on Monday, November 25th at 11am. Burial will follow at St. Mary's Cemetery in Stuyvesant Falls, NY. All are invited to a reception at the Stuyvesant Fire House to share stories and fellowship immediately following the burial.