Jane E. Hayes

Jane E. Hayes, age 77, of Lincoln, died on Thursday, December 12, 2024.

A memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. today, Thursday, December 19, at First-Plymouth Congregational Church, 2000 D Street, Lincoln. Memorials may be made to First-Plymouth Congregational Church.

Jane was born on November 27, 1947, in Lincoln to Floyd R. and Helen Frances Schroeder.

Jane was one of the best young cellists in the land, a girl from Lincoln High who in 1965, her junior year, won a national strings competition for high schoolers. She earned a scholarship to one of the best high schools for the arts, Interlochen, in Michigan. She majored in cello at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, one of the top music schools.

She freelanced for symphonies throughout North America and played backup on jazz trumpeter Chuck Mangione’s album “Land of Make Believe.”

She played solos before hundreds at Carnegie Hall.

She played Shostakovich’s First Symphony so well that a conductor told her it was the most beautiful music he’d ever heard from a cello.

Family members include Jane’s daughter, Megan E.

Hayes, of Munich, Germany; grandson, Alexander V. Adamiak, of Munich, Germany; niece, Tracy Rowell, of Cleveland, Ohio; and brother-in-law, Chester Rowell, of Houston, Texas.

She was preceded in death by her parents; grandson, Josef E. Adamiak; sister, Sally L.

Rowell; and brother, Don T. Schroeder.