Jenifer Maura Fox

Jenifer Fox Obituary

Jenifer Maura Fox, 50, of East Granby, died Sunday, (June 17, 2001) at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center. Funeral services are private and at the convenience of the family. The Sheehan Hilborn Breen Funeral Home, 1084 New Britain Ave., West Hartford, has care of the arrangements.

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Published by Hartford Courant on Jun. 19, 2001.

Memories and Condolences
for Jenifer Fox

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6 Entries

hilary cyr

May 6, 2008

It has been so long and I still miss and Loved her "awesomeness." I think of her often. I find solace in re-reading what her close friends said about her.
blessed be

debbie willis

September 17, 2001

Jenifer was the most thoughtful person I have ever known. She was the kind of person who always remembered birthdays and always sent thankyou cards. Even after she was given a death sentence she was still more concerned with others. She still listened to me intently as I talked about all my problems which were so small in comparison.Jenifer and I went out a couple of months before she died. Our mission was to find a "lodestone" which I needed in order to cast a spell. We talked alot that night. Jenifer talked about her illness and how angry she was. She kept saying she believed it was her "BFK". I told her I believed she was a more evolved spirit. The last time Jenifer came home from the hospital she called me to say she had found that "lodestone" and would send it to me via a friend ( which she did). I remember thinking how incredible to remember such an insignificant thing with all she was going through.That was Jenifer and her thoughtfulness. A couple of days later she was gone.I miss her everyday.

Dawn Soucy

July 18, 2001

Jenifer not only lived life,she embraced it. She had the capacity to be the center of everything without even trying. People naturally gravitated to her whenever she appeared yet she allowed everyone the chance to be seen and heard. Her zest for life spilled over to her friends and we all were better for it. Whenever I think of Jenifer, I remember all the fun we had playing dress up at the medievel faires we attended. What fun to pretend we were Ladies of the Realm and living with King Arthur. Jenifer gave of herself to every friend, often without them knowing what she was doing. Her life was always full of adventure and lucky was the one she chose to have an adventure with. Jenifer gave me a chance to live my dreams and for that I will always be grateful. She was the one who gave me the first fur coat and encouraged me to pursue my hobby of sewing. Whenever she needed something she couldn't buy in a store, she would say, "My good friend Dawn could sew that for me." Of course who was I to turn down a challenge!!!!

So I say thank you Jenifer, you made my life richer.

Blessed Be, Jenifer.

Christopher Lynch and Linda Arvonen

June 24, 2001

I am searching my heart for just the right words to express our feelings about the loss of such a remarkable woman. On the selfish side of things, we feel cheated. She was the type of person that made us look forward to years and/or a lifetime of getting to know her better. And that was taken away, and we will sincerely miss those years. When we think of her, we think of strength, independence and pride. Those attributes just seemed to define Jenifer. Just simply by being, she taught us things that we never realized we needed to learn. For these lessons in being, we will be forever thankful.

We visited with her in the hospital the weekend before her death and she seemed to look so much better than she had in a long time. She spoke of her goal of making it to the Summer Solstice. She told us that she hadn’t felt as good for a long time. We left feeling so optimistic about her health problems, and looked forward to seeing her on the Solstice. We left that day with a mission…we were going to find her some electric candles so she could, in a sense, continue burning candles! We never got that far. (Another Jenifer lesson…?) In retrospect, we wonder if this wasn’t just her final display of strength and independence to us?

We never met her family, but we do know that when she spoke of them, and it was often, she spoke with love, and respect, and pride in her heritage. To them, we express our sincere condolences. May you find comfort in knowing that she was loved by many, and that she loved you muchly.

To her Circle of Friends, of which we are grateful to be a part, she will always remain with us in Spirit, and the profundity of her loss will be felt for a long time to come.

To her coworkers, we suspect that your workplace will never be the same again!

To all of us, as we go about the business of life without Jenifer, may we keep her memory alive in our hearts and know that we were blessed for having had her in our lives.

Blessed Be Jenifer!

Linda Arvonen and Christopher Lynch

Bill Revill

June 22, 2001

There is an element of irony that there is an electronic guest book for us to

put down our thoughts about Fox. Jenifer was, shall we say, a tad resistant

to entering the computer age, and it is somehow fitting that we get to

express our thoughts in such a medium. I think she'd be highly amused.

I spoke to Jenifer the Thursday before she died. She was tired but quite

happy to be home from the hospital. Because of the oxygen she had at home,

she had to pack away all her candles. She had a few. Five Xerox-paper cartons

of them. I teased her about it, told her how happy I was that she was home

again, and told her I'd talk to her later. I wish we had said more. I had

popped a card to her in the mail that morning and had gone to great lengths

to find a word that would rhyme with "Wiccans." I hope she got to see it.

Jenifer was a bona fide character in a world of conformity, one who danced to

her own drumbeat. She was funny and caring, she could be tough and could be

difficult; she was Fox. I miss her, I miss her friendship and recognize that

it was a real privilege to know her. There was no one quite like her.

Rafael F. Garbalosa

June 19, 2001

I remember Jenifer as one who cared and loved more than she let the rest of us know. I remember her always speaking of her nieces and nephews and how good they were on the computer and playing the computer games. She spoke of them lovingly and you knew it was a joy for her to be with them. I remember Jenifer as the last person who wanted to embrace the new technologies, such as the computer and word processing. She reluctantly entered that world at work but soon was enthusiastically applying new computer skills culminating on the day that she excitedly called me to let me know of a new computer skill that she had learned and that I did not know about. The student had become the teacher and she was so proud. I don't know how to feel now that she is gone except that I feel an emptiness and unresolved emotions. She called me last Friday to tell me that she was back in the hospital. There was a knowing sadness in her voice. It was the last time I spoke with her, and I wish to God that I had said to her that I loved her and missed her. She had so much more to offer us all. Rafael

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