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Jessadean TENNANT, Retired secretary, 78
Pigeon Forge, Tenn: Jessadean Tennant, 78, of Cole Drive, a retired secretary and financial services indstry employee, died Tuesday in the Pigeon Forge Care and Rehabilitation Center. She was the widow of Daniel Tennant, who died in 1978.
Born in Vick, Ark., on Nov. 23, 1925, she was the daughter of the late Jesse and Gertrude (Medley) Weaver. She had been raised and educated in Locus Bayou, Ark., where she graduated high school, and attended secretarial school in Little Rock, Ark.
Mrs. Tennant had resided in Tennessee since September 2003, previously living in Ocala, Fla; Plymouth, Mass; and Attleboro, Mass.
She had worked for the former Wareham (Mass.) First National Bank for many years until retiring in 1992. She had prevoiusly worked as a legal secretary for a Taunton attorney and as a secretary at Attleboro High School from 1962 to 1972.
Mrs. Tennant was a member of the Centenary United Methodist church of Attleboro from 1946 to 1973 where she was a founding member of the Tau Lambda Circle and a volunteer Sunday school teacher. She had also been a member of the Swift Memorial United Methodist Church, Sagamore Beach, Mass., where she was a Sunday school teacher. She had been a member of the United Methodist Women's club at both churches, and a member of the district club.
She had enjoyed spending time with her children, grand-children, and great-grandchildren. She had enjoyed sewing and was an avid quilter, and had enjoyed keeping entries in her personal journal and painting.
She is survived by two daughters, Beverly Browne of Seymour and Sandra Heywood of Saline, Mich.; a son, Daniel Tennant of Hebron, Conn.,;a sister, Martiel Hughes of Freemont, Calif.; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews; two sisters-in-law and two brothers-in-law.
A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in the Commonwealth Chapel of the Dyer-Lake Funeral Home, 161 Commonwealth Ave., North Attleboro.
Burial will take place in Oakland Grove Cemetery, Sagamore Beach.
Source: The Sun Chronicle, Attleboro-N. Attleboro, Mass. Thursday, February 12, 2004 Page B6
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