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August 15, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 from 5-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd., Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Montclair.
Jean T. Blewitt age 85 of Wayne died peacefully surrounded by loved ones on Sunday, August 15, 2010 at home. She was born in Orange, NJ and raised in Montclair, NJ where she attended Immaculate Conception High School with the Class of 1942. Jean was a phlebotomist for Lab Corps, Wayne for ten years having retired in 1992.
Jean met her husband Gene on a blind date, having been set up by mutual friends. Jean and Gene went to a dinner dance together and were married soon after on October 1, 1949. They recently celebrated their 60th Anniversary with a Mass and dinner with their family.
Jean loved gardening, knitting Irish Fisherman sweaters and afghans, and was an excellent swimmer well into her retirement years.
Jean was a devoted and caring mother to her eleven children and loving grandmother to her twenty-seven grandchildren. She was also very dedicated to her Catholic faith. She was a parishioner of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne where she has sung in the choir and, with her husband, founded the Our Lady Queen of Peace Prayer Group and the Adoration Chapel. Recently, she and her husband were honored at a Mass, marking the 20th Anniversary of the Queen of Peace Prayer Group.
She loved to travel and has made several trips to Ireland but her favorite destination was Italy. Her family fondly remembers her Irish Soda Bread and the big pot of Halloween Beef-a-Roni she would make for them to eat before they went trick-or-treating.
She was the beloved wife of Eugene Blewitt; loving mother of Katie Buononato and her husband Blase of Wayne, Joe Blewitt and his wife Racie of Stewartsville, Maureen Mullin and her husband Rick of Caldwell, Michael Blewitt of East Patchogue, NY, Laura Smelski and her husband Tom of Syracuse, NY, Dan Blewitt and his wife Ofie of Lincoln Park, Ellen Vigilante and her husband Jim of Lebanon Twp, Ginnie Guinness and her husband Ed of Webster Groves, MO, Kevin Blewitt and his wife Pat of Wayne, Mary Ann DiGiaimo and her husband Chuck of Pompton Plains, and son-in-law, Tony D’Apolito of Morristown; cherished sister of Sally O’Connell of Caldwell and Irene Rivers and her husband Frank of Jackson; loving Grandmother of Rebecca Cardone, Jessica Tyminski, Mike and Sarah DiGiaimo; Patrick and Nicholas Blewitt; Erin Stratton, Robert and Joe Guinness; Brian, Charlie, Billy, and Johnny Vigilante; Timmy, Matthew and Christopher Blewitt; Josh and Katrina Morelli, Emily, Marguerite, and Lydia Ann Mullin; Kelly and LuLu Blewitt; Monica, Tommy, and Dominic Buononato; and four great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by two daughters Monica Blewitt and Christine D’Apolito, one granddaughter Andrea Morelli, and two sisters Virginia Krause Pierce and Kay Reilly.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to NJ Right to Life, 242 Old New Brunswick Rd., Piscataway, NJ 08854 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 from 5-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd., Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Montclair.
August 15, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 from 5-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd., Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Montclair.
Jean T. Blewitt age 85 of Wayne died peacefully surrounded by loved ones on Sunday, August 15, 2010 at home. She was born in Orange, NJ and raised in Montclair, NJ where she attended Immaculate Conception High School with the Class of 1942. Jean was a phlebotomist for Lab Corps, Wayne for ten years having retired in 1992.
Jean met her husband Gene on a blind date, having been set up by mutual friends. Jean and Gene went to a dinner dance together and were married soon after on October 1, 1949. They recently celebrated their 60th Anniversary with a Mass and dinner with their family.
Jean loved gardening, knitting Irish Fisherman sweaters and afghans, and was an excellent swimmer well into her retirement years.
Jean was a devoted and caring mother to her eleven children and loving grandmother to her twenty-seven grandchildren. She was also very dedicated to her Catholic faith. She was a parishioner of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne where she has sung in the choir and, with her husband, founded the Our Lady Queen of Peace Prayer Group and the Adoration Chapel. Recently, she and her husband were honored at a Mass, marking the 20th Anniversary of the Queen of Peace Prayer Group.
She loved to travel and has made several trips to Ireland but her favorite destination was Italy. Her family fondly remembers her Irish Soda Bread and the big pot of Halloween Beef-a-Roni she would make for them to eat before they went trick-or-treating.
She was the beloved wife of Eugene Blewitt; loving mother of Katie Buononato and her husband Blase of Wayne, Joe Blewitt and his wife Racie of Stewartsville, Maureen Mullin and her husband Rick of Caldwell, Michael Blewitt of East Patchogue, NY, Laura Smelski and her husband Tom of Syracuse, NY, Dan Blewitt and his wife Ofie of Lincoln Park, Ellen Vigilante and her husband Jim of Lebanon Twp, Ginnie Guinness and her husband Ed of Webster Groves, MO, Kevin Blewitt and his wife Pat of Wayne, Mary Ann DiGiaimo and her husband Chuck of Pompton Plains, and son-in-law, Tony D’Apolito of Morristown; cherished sister of Sally O’Connell of Caldwell and Irene Rivers and her husband Frank of Jackson; loving Grandmother of Rebecca Cardone, Jessica Tyminski, Mike and Sarah DiGiaimo; Patrick and Nicholas Blewitt; Erin Stratton, Robert and Joe Guinness; Brian, Charlie, Billy, and Johnny Vigilante; Timmy, Matthew and Christopher Blewitt; Josh and Katrina Morelli, Emily, Marguerite, and Lydia Ann Mullin; Kelly and LuLu Blewitt; Monica, Tommy, and Dominic Buononato; and four great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by two daughters Monica Blewitt and Christine D’Apolito, one granddaughter Andrea Morelli, and two sisters Virginia Krause Pierce and Kay Reilly.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to NJ Right to Life, 242 Old New Brunswick Rd., Piscataway, NJ 08854 would be appreciated.
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