Jane C. Tuttle

Scarborough - Jane Francis Fitch Case Tuttle, age 101, mother, healer, storyteller, and one of the first women to serve in the Navy WAVES during WWII, died on June 10th 2024 at Piper Shores in Scarborough, Maine. Born in Auburn, NY on February 16, 1923 to Theodore Willard Case and Alice Gertrude Eldred Case, Jane and her three siblings were the first test subjects recorded by her father’s pioneering method ‘Sound-On-Film’ developed at his laboratory. https://cayugamuseum.org/case-research-lab/ In 1941, she graduated from the Chapin School in New York City, and attended the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Mass. Jane was secretly drafted as a Cryptologist breaking Japanese codes in Washington D.C. and undisclosed locations from 1943 -1945. Complete secrecy for over 70 years was lifted by the publishing of Code Girls in 2017. https://www.lizamundy.com/code-girls/ After the war, Jane married Elliott Baldwin Newcomb with whom she had three sons, Theodore Case, Elliott Baldwin, and Christopher Pettibone Newcomb. After ten years of marriage, sadly troubled by alcohol, they divorced. Jane moved to Florida with her three sons where she regained her independence and discovered AA, a program that led to sobriety and a life dedicated to spiritual engagement and questioning. In the 1960s, Jane helped launch the 1st Public Broadcasting Station, WETA, Washington DC, where she met her second husband, Leon Ogrodnik, thirteen years her junior. In 1966, she and Leon had a daughter, Marcia Lynn Ogrodnik (Mo), and they moved to Williamstown, MA and later West Bath, ME, where Jane continued her Reiki healing practice and began her channeling work with Unitarian minister, Brad Mitchell which culminated in their co-authored book, Our Introduction to the Light, A Channeled Manuscript. https://www.amazon.com/Our-Introduction-Light-channeled-manuscript/dp/1791893597 At age 70, Jane felt that she and Leon needed to grow, and she left the relationship, trusting that the “Universe would provide.” She reunited with and married her high school sweetheart, Arthur Farwell Tuttle, a union of love and respect that brought her tremendous joy. Jane was fiercely patriotic and dedicated to the ideals for which our country stands, sending each of her family members a pocket-sized U.S. Constitution after the 2016 election. She was the matriarch of our family. As her grandson Case Newcomb said, “Granny, you’re the big oak tree to all of us little acorns.” She was predeceased by: her brothers Theodore Willard Case, Jr. (Bill); and John P. Case (Johnny); and her sister Barbara Case Kissel (Bobbie). Also predeceased by her three husbands: Elliott Baldwin Newcomb (Newk); Leon Paul Ogrodnik and Arthur Farwell Tuttle (Far) and two grandsons: Elliott B. Newcomb, III (Tigger) and Peter Van Nest Newcomb. Jane is survived by her four children: Theodore Case Newcomb (Ted), Elliott Baldwin Newcomb, Jr. (Win); Christopher Pettibone Newcomb, and daughter Marcia Lynn Ogrodnik (Mo); nine grandchildren: Case, Memphis, Sarah, Amy, Jesse, Jake, and Christopher T. Newcomb; and Dove and Zibia Bardin; and six great grandchildren: Zoe Morehead, Calvin Mills, Alex and Carly Quinn, and Ava and Adalynn Newcomb.