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1921
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2012
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Jean Tasker Obituary
Jean lived there until she was 19 when she enlisted in the British Army during the Battle of Britain. In 1942, she shipped out to North Africa as part of the communications group in the Army Signal Corps as a corporal. While there she married her husband George on March 2, 1945 in Cairo, Egypt where he was serving in the Army Medical Service. Jean came home to the United States starting the next stage of her life in Massachusetts where they lived in Boston and Braintree for 49 years. Jean worked for Sears in Boston and later with Grass Instrument Company in Quincy before retiring and moving to Bow. They were blessed with 67 years of good life together. She was an active member of the Trinity Episcopal Church in Weymouth, Mass. and more recently volunteered her time with the NH Audubon Society working on the Bird Surveys held each year. She loved taking trips to visit family and friends in England and hanging out with George on fishing trips to the wilds of northern Maine. She was an avid reader and cook and loved her cat Sammy.
She is predeceased by a sister, Kay Durk and her husband Roy of Dorset England.
Jean is survived by her loving husband George Tasker of Bow; a sister Rita Coomer and her husband Bill of Dorset, England; her son Bruce and his wife Suzanne; three grandchildren: Jonathan Tasker and his wife Karen of Kittery Maine, Kerri (Tasker) Glover and her husband Charles Glover of Penacook, and Seth Tasker and his wife Emily of Brighton, Mass; two great grandchildren Sophie and Colby; sister-in-laws Mary Tasker of Maine and Shirley Tasker of New York; as well as many nieces and nephews.
A memorial service and burial will be held Tuesday, July 3, at 11 a.m. in the Chapel at the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery, Boscawen.
Arrangements are being handled by The Waters Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers please consider a memorial donation to the NH Audubon Society, 84 Silk Farm Road, Concord NH 03301.
To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.
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Deborah Tasker Sena
July 15, 2012
A beautiful, generous, and always cheery lady. Condelences from a distant Tasker relative who shared her love of family/genealogy and memories of Cairo,Egypt.
The Entire Staff of Waters Funeral Home
June 30, 2012
Offering our deepest condolences at this difficult time.
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