Jacqueline Tribus was born in Swedesboro, N.J., and raised in Penns Grove, N.J. After graduating from St. James High School in Carney's Point, N.J., in 1964, she earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the College of St. Elizabeth in Convent Station, N.J., in 1968.
She moved to Baltimore in 1971, and from 1978 to 1980 was a nursery school teacher at Ascension Lutheran Nursery School in Towson.
She began teaching eighth-and-ninth grade math at Deep Creek Middle School in Essex in 1980, and four years later, joined the faculty of Perry Hall High School, where she taught math and computer literacy until 2000.
In 2000, she earned a master's degree in secondary education at Towson University.
From 2000 to 2001, she was a math and science mentor at Chesapeake High School, and was assistant to the executive director of schools for the Baltimore County public schools' Southeast Area.
The longtime Chumleigh Road resident enjoyed playing golf and vacationing in Ocean City, N.J.
She was a communicant of St. Pius X Roman Catholic Church, York and Overbrook roads in Rodgers Forge, where a Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Surviving are her husband of 18 years, Timothy L. Lamp, a retired Catonsville High School social studies teacher; two daughters, Emily O'Connor Nochez of Los Angeles and Mary Bruns of Loch Raven Village; her mother, Frieda R. Tribus of Dunmore, Pa.; a brother, William Tribus of Morristown, N.J.; two sisters, Kathryn Oven, a twin, of Dunmore, and Denise Girolamo of Yorktown Heights, N.Y.; and three grandchildren. An earlier marriage to Joseph O'Connor ended in divorce.
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