Jennifer Ann Gonyea

Dover, NH-Jennifer Ann Gonyea, 26, of New Rochester Road, died Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008 at the Exeter Hospital. She was born in New London, NH on Dec. 22, 1981. Jennifer graduated from Sunapee, NH High School in 2000 and from Johnson State College, Johnson, VT in 2004. She worked for the YWCA and was passionate about helping refugees and victims of domestic violence in her work with Families in Crisis and then for the HIV Outreach Program in Manchester. She had lived in Dover for the past six months and before that in Manchester for four years. Jennifer was a great writer. While she was in high school she took a trip to Costa Rica. She enjoyed singing and was a member of the chorus while in high school and college. Jennifer loved her cat, Willow. Members of her family surviving include her life partner, Paula Virgona of Dover, NH; her mother and stepfather, Marlene (Huff) and Frank Robbins of Sunapee, NH; her father and his fiance, John Gonyea and Pat Beebe of Lebanon, NH and Pat's son, J.P. Beebe; a brother, Stephen Gonyea of Hartland, VT; three sisters, Charlene Gardner of Thornton, CO, Rebecca Robbins of Lakewood, CO, and Rachel Robbins of Sunapee, NH; her maternal grandparents, Danville and Lee (Phillips) Huff of Sunapee, NH; her paternal grandparents, Paul and Carol (Currier) Gonyea of Pinellas Park, FL; her maternal great grandmother, Mildred Phillips of Port Charlotte, FL; aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins. Friends may call at the Chadwick Funeral Home, 235 Main Street, New London, NH on Friday, Jan. 25, 2008 from 5-7 P.M. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the Upper Valley Humane Society, 300 Old Route 10, Enfield, NH 03748, NH Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence at NHCADSV, P.O. Box 353, Concord, NH 03302-0353, or to GLAD, 30 Winter Street Suite 800, Boston, MA 02108 or online at www.glad.org on the link "Donate to GLAD"-Gifts in Honor. To sign an online guestbook please visit www.chadwickfuneralservice.com.