9184069413.jpg &&& Jackie Reardon once spent a rainy Memorial Day weekend with relatives at a cabin in Michigan. The Fort Worth woman, who enjoyed hobbies including making and painting ceramics, watched with admiration and interest as her aunt crocheted a shawl."It’s easy," her Aunt Barb said.Mrs. Reardon went to a Wal-Mart, bought yarn and attempted the needlework herself."Jackie caught on right away, a lot quicker than I did," older sister Nora Kelly said. "She could do anything with her hands and do it well. She later mastered her own crochet patterns. In a back bedroom, where her crafts are, Jackie has scarves she was making to give as Christmas presents."Mrs. Reardon, 50, died of lung cancer Friday.Jackalynn Jo Durfey Reardon was born March 6, 1958, in Toledo, Ohio, to Jack and Joyce Durfey.A graduate of Whitmer High School in Toledo, she attended Davis College in Toledo and later worked as a computer programmer at Besse Power Plant in Port Clinton, Ohio, where she met her husband, Paul Reardon. The couple moved to Fort Worth in 1987.Mrs. Reardon took lessons from Fort Worth ceramic artist Elsa Riedel. She also taught ceramics classes at her home."Jackie was a very talented ceramist and interested in life — in everything. There was nothing you couldn’t discuss with her. We became very close friends," Riedel said.Mrs. Reardon developed a Web site, Americanhousewife.com, a forum dealing with topics that ranged from America’s immigration debate to kitchen tips. "Whenever my wife set her mind to doing something she did it — full bore," Paul Reardon said.She and her husband had planned to celebrate their 21 years together with a trip to Washington, D.C.She died at home on the couple’s anniversary.Other survivors include children Jack Durfey, Janelle Nelson, Paul David Reardon and Sean Patrick Reardon; sisters Denise Durfey-Hoffman and Kathy Moore; and four grandchildren. Services 12:30 p.m. Thursday in Laurel Land Chapel of Chimes in Fort Worth.