"He was hospitalized and I was in therapy, and it drew us closer," Mr. Provance said. "One day, a watercolor of a turtle he had painted in art therapy arrived in the mail. In his own hand he had written: 'Slow and steady wins the race.' "
Mr. Provance, who said he was touched by his friend's concern and present, still has the painting hanging on his wall.
"I believed in his message and hung it on my wall as a reminder. It was the kind of thing he'd do. A complete unexpected act of kindness," he said.
A recovering alcoholic, Mr. Jump recently celebrated 25 years of sobriety.
"He was actively involved with Alcoholics Anonymous and his participation with AA led to tutoring nonreading adults as well as counseling fellow members," Mrs. Jump said.
"This was a natural complement to his extensive counseling work with students and young adults," she said.
Mr. Jump enjoyed acting in and directing local repertory and community theater, as well as singing in church choirs and community chorales.
When Mr. Jump was a student at Yale, he wrote drama criticism for the Yale Daily News.
"This is a very funny story: Paul Newman had attended Yale Drama School, and Ted gave him a bad review in the school newspaper," Mr. Provance said with a laugh.
Services are private.
Also surviving are a son, Theodore Jump of Austin, Texas; two daughters, Lizabeth Jump of Baltimore and Leslie Jump-Walker of Washington; and two sisters, Betty Marie Banks of Brighton, Colo., and Maxie Jones of Hereford, Ariz.
