Jane Stuart, who had a house in Springs for over 30 years, died on July 7 under hospice care in Westhampton after a short illness with an aggressive cancer. She was 77.
Before founding HomeWorkPeople, a New York City commercial and residential real estate firm “for the entertainment and creative industries,” Ms. Stuart had a career in television commercial editing as president of two companies, Cabana and Big Picture, and had been a newspaper reporter and editor for The Record in northern New Jersey and The Times Herald-Record in Middletown, N.Y. She had also served as a public information officer for the Town of Ramapo in Rockland County.
In recent years, she co-founded Watch and Ward, a property management firm here. She was a volunteer English as a second language teacher with Ruta 27 in East Hampton, a docent at the Art Barge on Napeague, and a watercolor painter who studied at the Barge and participated in group shows at Ashawagh Hall. She lived year round in Springs, but had always hoped to move to Costa Rica in the winters.
The daughter of Mark and Melba Stuart, she was born in New York City on Dec. 15, 1947, and grew up in River Vale, N.J., graduating from Pascack Valley High School before going on to Upsala College in East Orange, N.J.
She is survived by her husband, Jon Clemens of East Hampton, and by a brother, Tom Stuart of Naples, Fla., his wife, Cindy, and a niece and a nephew, Rachel Stuart and Jonathan Stuart of Florida.
She requested that family and friends celebrate her life at a party that is being planned for late September or October.
