WEBSTER, NH: Jeannetta J. (Ven Eyken) Whitford, 89, of Webster, NH died Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at Pheasant Wood Nursing Home in Peterborough, NH.
She was born in Oorderen, Belgium on March 27, 1929 to the late Ludovicus L. Julliams and Florentina Alphonsina Vaneyken. She was also predeceased by her husband Clarence E. Whitford who died in 2000, and her sister, Maria Goris, who died in Belgium in 2015.
Jeannetta work for many years at Hoyt Electric in Penacook, NH before her retirement and also did volunteer work for the Concord Hospital.
She was a member of the Webster Congregational Church, Daniel Webster Grange #100, American Legion Post # 81, Webster Woman’s Union, and the Golden Group of Hopkinton, NH. Jeannetta loved flowers, knitting, reading, and dancing with her husband Clarence.
Survived by a daughter, Jeanne and her husband, Dick Atkinson, and their son, Peter, of Antrim, NH, her niece, Judy and her husband, Don and their children, Charles and Mary, her nephew, Roger Ball, his wife, Elena, and their son, David.
Memorial services will be held Friday, September 14, 2018 at 4 pm in the Webster Congregational Church in Webster, NH. Burial will follow at the NH Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen, NH.
The Holt-Woodbury Funeral Home & Cremation Service Henniker, NH is assisting the family.
In lieu of flowers donation may be made in her name to a charity of your choice.