Obituary for Jean W. Meserve
Jean W. Meserve, 86, of Portland, Maine, passed away peacefully at the home of her son and daughter-in-law early on Saturday morning October 20, 2018.
She was born Jean Marie West on January 5, 1932, in Biddeford. She attended local schools in Biddeford and then in Portland graduating from Deering High School in 1950. She graduated from Gorham State Teachers College in 1954, and went on to teach school for one year in Connecticut, taught several years in Falmouth and over twenty years in Portland. She was once named Teacher of the Year for Maine.
She enjoyed cooking, reading, and knitting; keeping infants and children warm in the winter by knitting hats, mittens and slippers.
She was predeceased by her parents Fred and Rachel West, and by her husband John R. Meserve of twenty-four year who died in 1980. She never remarried because as she said, “She had the best.”
She is survived by her only son and daughter-in-law, John A. and Carolyn Jo Meserve of Naples, and two Aunts Marice Foss Barzal and Jean Foss Katsonis of Eliot.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend a funeral service on Friday October 26, 2018 at 2PM at Jones, Rich & Barnes Funeral Home, 199 Woodford St, Portland, ME with the Rev. Carolyn Lambert officiating. Interment will be private in the family lot in Naples, ME. If so desired, contributions may be made in her memory to the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland, P.O. Box 336, Westbrook, ME. 04092. To send a tribute in Jean’s memory please visit www.jonesrichbarnes.com
