Jeannine Currier

Jeannine Currier

Jensen Beach, FL — A Funeral Mass for Jeannine Currier, who was graduated from St. John High in 1959, will be offered by Reverend Richard Roberge of Christ the King Parish, 72 South Main Street, May 22 at 10 am.

Jeannine died March 2 at a hospice facility near her Jensen Beach, FL home of COPD. She was an antiques dealer and later served as office manager for a marine electronics company.

She was the daughter of the late Maurice and Germaine Currier, Hopkinton Road, at what had been a dairy farm and later was converted to "Currier's Cabins." As a teen-ager, she studied ballet at the Harriet Hocter Studio in Boston, Hocter having been the featured dancer in Ziegfeld movies in the 1930s and 1940s. After high school Jeannine joined a water ballet and toured the Nation for two years. She competed in the 1959 Miss New Hampshire contest and was named "Miss Miami Beach" in 1961. She had a cameo appearance in a Jerry Lewis movie, "The Bell Boy."

In 1962, she was married to Bruce Bentley and lived in Massachusetts for 10 years and then briefly to Lawrence MacAlister. She returned to Concord in the late 1970s before moving to Florida in 1979. In 1989, after a pilgrimage to Medugorje in Yugoslavia, she became a Eucharistic minister and lector at St. Martin de Porres Church in Stuart.

She leaves sons, Andrew and Christopher Bentley; their wives (Jodi and Wendy, respectively); a sister, Elaine Nelson (St. John High '63); a cousin, John Donovan (BBHS '64); grandchildren Aaron and Joshua Eckhardt and his wife Susan; granddaughters Ryan Bentley and Amber Sprinkle; and great grandchildren, Elijah and Luca Eckhardt.

Interment will follow at Millville Cemetery on Hopkinton Road.