POLLY JAPP

 Aug. 8, 1946–Feb. 12, 2025

Polly Japp peacefully departed this world in the early hours of Feb. 12, 2025, to be made whole and radiant in heaven. She is rejoicing and singing and dancing with a new and perfect body and mind in the presence of our Lord and Savior this morning.

Polly was born Aug. 8, 1946, in Billings, Montana. She was the daughter of Bernadine Bolin-McCoy and her step-father, Ovid S. McCoy.

Polly was a 1964 graduate of Newcastle High School and attended the Billings School of Business as well as the University of Wyoming. She was a partner in Japp Petroleum for several decades, worked in the natural gas department of Phillips Petroleum Company, and retired after 20 years of faithful employment from the Jeppesen Sanderson-Boeing Company. Her love of numbers and precision truly was remarkable and admired.

In her spare time, she enjoyed writing, reading and shopping and was a wonderful bowler, but she especially loved spending quality time with her family and her three grandchildren. She was a woman of immeasurable faith and loved volunteering at her church and helping others. Polly will be remembered for her sweet, loving and gentle personality. Although somewhat shy and quiet, she loved her family and friends so well and was always positive and encouraging and trusting of God and His remarkable ways. She was a wonderful wife, loving sister and a treasured mother and grandmother. She will be forever missed by all who knew and loved her and were lucky enough to call her a friend.

Polly was preceded in death by her parents.

Those left to cherish her memory include her children, Kim Smir (Bassam) of Greensboro, North Carolina, and Kent Jason Japp (Jennifer) of Frisco, Texas; her sister, Denise McCoy (Tom Kennedy) of Albuquerque, New Mexico; and grandchildren, Lauren Michelle Smir, Alec Matthew Smir and Jason Allen Japp; and countless number of dear friends at Abbotswood at Irving Park in Greensboro, North Carolina.

A private celebration of her life will be held with her family at a later date.

The family asks with gratitude that memorials in Polly’s name be made to the Alzheimer’s Association at 4615 Dundas Dr., Greensboro, NC 27407.

Fond memories and online condolences may be left at haneslineberryfhnorthelm.com for the Japp family.
Hanes Lineberry North Elm Chapel, 515 N Elm Street, Greensboro, NC 27401 is assisting the family.