Jeannette Polly Everitt

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Jeannette & Paul Berish

Born on May 15, 1921 in Idamar, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. She was the eldest child of Charles W. Everitt and Eliza Stanton.

Description

Jeannette who stood about 5 foot 3 inches tall and was of average build. She had dark brown hair and brown eyes. She wore correction eyeglasses in her later years.

Early Years

• Childhood
• Siblings
  • Lawrence M. Everitt
  • Florence Everitt
  • Alberta Everitt
  • Dollie M. Everitt
  • Raymond Everitt
  • Carrie Everitt
  • Charles Everitt

Education

Jeannette completed the seventh grade. She quit school after two months into the 8th grade to work as a baby sitter/housekeeper for a local well-to-do family.

Religion

Attended St. Mary’s Mother Of God Catholic Church In Yatesboro, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.

Family Years

Married Paul Joseph Berish on October 12, 1940 in Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. (After the death of her first husband, Jeannette married Leonard Blair Spence on January 19, 2000 in Trumbull County, Ohio. The couple had no children.)

The couple would eventually have two children:

• Margaret Ann Berish
• Paul Joseph Berish Jr.

Residences

• 1442 Maxwell NW in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio.
• 724 W. Main Street in Rural Vally, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.

Working Years

Jeannette was a homemaker for 58 years. She also worked as a dressmaker at Singer for 10 years. (She would sew dresses in the store-front window to attract customers.)

Early in her life, she quit school two months into the 8th grade to work as a baby sitter/housekeeper for a local well-to-do family. She did this for a number of years until she married her first husband Paul Joseph Berish.

Personal Life

• She loved baking, fishing and camping. She also continued to sew in her later years.
• She volunteered in the kitchen at the Rural Valley Senior Center.
• Jeannette also spent a great deal of time tracking and documenting the various illnesses and conditions of the Timko and Berish families in hopes of determining a some familial link to her daughter's heart condition.

Death

Jeannette died from Covid-19 virus during the 2020 pandemic on May 16, 2020 at Indiana Regional Medical Center in Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.

She was buried beside her husband Paul on May 20 at All Souls Cemetery in Cortland, Trumbull County, Ohio.