Jean Adrienne McCown McGurk, 78, passed away peacefully at home on June 16, 2014.

A native of Ironton, Ohio, (Lawrence County) she was the daughter of the late Henry A. and Adrienne T. McCown.
She attended the nursing program at Miami University and graduated from nursing school at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati.
She moved to Spartanburg with her husband William R. McGurk and four children in 1969 and served as a registered nurse in private-duty nursing and in positions at Charles Lea Center, Mary Black Hospital, Converse College and as a third-shift hospice nurse at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center where she retired in 1997 after 14 years of service.

She also volunteered as a Girl Scout troop leader and camp nurse at Camp Mary Elizabeth
. She was a member of Morningside Baptist Church in Spartanburg.

Jean is survived by her beloved husband of 55 years, and children Jenny Adrienne Fulton, of Edmond, Okla., W. Jeffrey McGurk, of Lyman, S.C., Debra Jean Atkins, of Boiling Springs, S.C. and Lisa Anne Harrison, of Greenville, S.C.; six grandchildren, Adrienne Johnson, of Edmond, Okla., Stephanie Gilliland, of Medford, Okla., Nick Fulton, of Edmond, Okla., Rachel Parker, of Columbia, S.C., Max McGee and Meredith McGee, both of Lyman, S.C.; great-granddaughter, August Adrienne Johnson, of Edmond; two brothers and sisters-in-law, David and Joanne McCown and Terry and Eleanor McCown, all of Ironton, Ohio.

The family will receive friends 1:45-2:45 p.m. Saturday at Morningside Baptist Church Welcome Center, 897 S. Pine St. in Spartanburg.
A memorial service will be conducted at 3 p.m. in the Morningside Baptist sanctuary to be followed by a cryptside committal service in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens Heritage Chapel Mausoleum, 1300 Fernwood-Glendale Road, Spartanburg, South Carolina.