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each one, for posting at the auction. When
she “retired” from that duty, it took three
people to replace her. She also served as
head of Heronfield’s parents’ association,
recruiting volunteers for school events,
always with a smile on her face.
Ms. Jenkins was also active with the
Hampton Attack lacrosse program for
many years, coaching her daughter, Marley,
and sharing her passion for the game with
countless other girls. She also conducted
alumni interviews for Dartmouth and
volunteered as a class agent at St. Paul’s.
Some of her favorite times were spent
in summers at her in-laws’ home on New
Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee, where
she enjoyed exploring the harbor on a
paddleboard, hanging out with a large
contingent of family and friends, spending
quality time with her children, and show-
ing off her cooking skills on the grill. Ms.
Jenkins was an inventive chef, who enjoyed
making everything from grilled salmon to
notably delicious Caesar salads.
“You only needed to stand in the Jenkins’s
living room, where everyone was always
welcome,” said her friend, Jenny Brook,
who spoke at the memorial service. “It was
here, under Bridget’s love and direction,
that all plans, plots, schemes, and parties
were hatched.”
Her husband laughs when he recalls
the incredible organizational skills of Ms.
Jenkins. She had a spread sheet or a list
for everything, he said. After her death,
multiple friends – old and new – shared
with her family how much they appreci-
ated the annual birthday cards she sent
to them for years, some long after they
had otherwise lost touch. One college
friend recalled how Ms. Jenkins helped
him through a bout of homesickness
while he was playing professional hockey
in Germany by tracking down his address
and sending him a birthday greeting.
“Bridgey was always thinking about
other people, picking out cards through-
out the year or shopping for them when
something reminded her of them,” said
John Jenkins. “She was very thoughtful
and she loved and cared for everyone.”
Ms. Jenkins was enthusiastic about
every holiday and decorated the family’s
house to celebrate each season. The Jenkins
home was alight with twinkling white
lights every Christmas and brightened by
seasonally appropriate d
é
cor for Easter.
She spent her final Christmas with her
family and, even in her last week, dis-
played a determination for life, taking
laps around the living room, with an
oxygen tank in tow.
Ms. Jenkins had formerly worked in
investment banking real estate for
several firms in New York City and
Boston, including LaSalle Partners and
Aldrich Eastman & Waltch. She worked
from home as a financial consultant for
many years after her return to New
Hampshire. She was an accomplished
woman, said her husband, who chose to
be a full-time mother, telling others that
it was the most important job she had
ever done and relishing in watching her
children grow.
She is survived by her loving husband,
John; her daughter, Marley; her son, Jack;
her mother and stepfather, M. Jacqueline
Eastwood and Michael McClurken; her
in-laws, John H. and Cynthia J. Jenkins;
and many aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews,
cousins, and friends.
1984
Charles Andrew Villee
an imaginative
and prolific
writer and an
active member
of his community
in Grafton, Mass.,
died at Saint Vin-
cent Hospital in
Worcester, Mass.,
on December 11,
2013. He was 48 years old.
Born in Boston to Dorothy (Balzer)
Villee and Claude A. Villee Jr., Mr. Villee
was one of four children. His two older
brothers were already students at St. Paul’s
when he applied.
Mr. Villee arrived at St. Paul’s from the
Dexter School in Brookline, Mass., bring-
ing with him an active and creative mind
and a love of baseball and writing. He
surprised his interviewer in his admis-
sions visit to SPS with detailed sched-
ules, scripts, and plots for an imagined
television network he created in his free
time. He enjoyed dramatizing the events
of his junior varsity athletic seasons in
written accounts published in the
Pelican
,
the
Falmouth
(Mass.)
Enterprise
, and the
Boston Globe
.
In his St. Paul’s application, Mr. Villee
predicted that his life would “center
around writing” and he was right. As a
teenager, he wrote
Charles: Full Cycle
about his recovery from an accident
that put him in a coma for months and
left him mentally impaired. He studied
at Hampshire College in Massachusetts,
graduating as valedictorian of the Class
of 1987. Mr. Villee earned a master’s in
education from the University of Massa-
chusetts at Amherst in 1988 and received
a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study
in special education from American Inter-
national College in 1994.
His second book,
Images of Africa
Abroad
, was co-written with a Hamp-
shire College friend, Stanley Macamo.
He continued to write for various pub-
lications, including a longtime position
as the high school sportswriter for the
Grafton News
.
Mr. Villee was dedicated to helping
people with disabilities. He was for many
years a volunteer with Community Enter-
prises, an organization that provides serv-
ices for the disabled. He served as an
ambassador for the Brain Injury Associa-
tion of Massachusetts and he shared his
coping strategies for bipolar illness with
“In Our Own Voice” at a series of National
Alliance on Mental Illness events. His
ardor for community service led him to
run for several offices and to serve on
the board of trustees of the Grafton
Public Library in addition to his work as
a community sportswriter.
Mr. Villee married Alison Adams in 1992
and the couple had one daughter, Abigail,
who was the apple of her father’s eye.
Mr. Villee will be greatly missed by his
fianc
é
e, Dolores Dulude; his daughter,
Abigail E. Villee; his brothers, Claude A.
Villee III ’75 and Stephen E. F. Villee ’77;
and his sister, Suzanne C. Villee.
