Age 81, passed away peacefully on Friday, April 24, 2015 due to complications from pneumonia in the Hospice Unit of Christiana Hospital. Janet was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania on November 26, 1933 and descended from Scottish immigrants who settled in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania in 1853. At the age of three her parents, Robert Ramsay Jones and Anna Biddle Marshall Jones moved to Birmingham, Alabama where she was raised and where her great uncle Erskine Ramsay and other family members helped to develop the Birmingham steel industry with Andrew Carnegie.Following her graduation from high school in Mountain Brook, Alabama, she graduated from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. Janet traveled extensively throughout Europe after her years at Hollins and she continued her lifelong interest in art, antiques, history, and genealogical research. Although Janet lived most of her adult life in Philadelphia and Wilmington, she always considered herself a "daughter of the South." For several years, she worked for Anna Brown Interiors of Greenville and in the registration office at Winterthur Museum and Gardens. She and her late husband of twenty years, John Yorkston, alternately served for many years as Executive Directors of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution. Her memberships included the Caesar Rodney Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Hollins University Alumnae Association, and the First Unitarian Church, Sharpley.She is survived by her stepchildren, J. Cameron Yorkston and Kathleen C. Yorkston of Hockessin, DE, Karen J. Fanning of Wilmington, DE, and Kenneth A. Yorkston of Longwood, FL, cousins Thomas W. Teel of Wilmington, DE and Sally Hunter of Earlysville, VA, five step grandchildren and five step great grandchildren.Following her request all services will be private. In lieu of flowers, it was Janet's wish that contributions in her memory be mailed to Hollins University, Office Alumnae Relations, 7916 Williamson Road, PO Box 9707 Roanoke, Virginia 24020.