Jennifer Klein

Jennifer Klein



In the tumult of the spring of 1969, Jennifer Meredith Klein entered this world. Born in the Bronx to Martin and Grazina Klein, Jennifer spent only a few years in New York before the family moved to Alaska, and then again to New Mexico where she grew up in Albuquerque. A 1987 graduate of the Albuquerque Academy, she left for Rollins College and then Loyola University Law School in New Orleans, a city that forever held her heart.

Jennifer was a wonderful cook. She loved crawfish and jambalaya , but also the enchiladas of her native NM (Christmas) and enjoyed the seafood of Puget Sound after moving to Seattle. Though, even years later, she argued that nothing beat the oysters of the Gulf coast . She loved having nieces and nephews visit in Seattle and would cater bus and boat tours of her adopted city to meet the interests of each visitor.

Jennifer is survived by her husband Rob Gitell and his children Jill and Aaron, her mother Grazina Klein, sisters Abigail Klein and Melissa Klein and niece and nephews Ethan, Caroline, Nate, Wyatt and Tyler.

Jennifer was active in the Junior League and was previously a board member of New Beginnings, a domestic violence shelter in Seattle. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations to New Beginnings or your local domestic violence prevention charity.