My friendship with Jeanne began in 1962 when we met in nursing school on orientation day. We were consoling each other because we were already homesick, only to learn a short time later that we were to be roommates. Our friendhip grew and endured through school, weddings, raising children, career, and life's other challengers. We wacthed our children grow and lives change, but our connection never weakened. A phone call or a visit always helped us to re-connect. Jeanne was always so proud of her family. She was a devoted daughter and mother to Mark and Jeff, who she called her princes and loving grandmother to Mathew. Jeanne was also a wife to a wonderful man, John, who made her last years incredibly happy. She would tell me that he treated her like a queen and that she felt blessed and proud to have him in her life. Jeanne's life was a gift to all that knew her. She will always be loved and never forgotten. Love, Mary