Jeanette Hokaszewski

Jeanette was born in Axson Georgia on February 6th, 1928 and passed away in Owensville Missouri on January 23rd, 2013 at the Gasconade Manor Nursing Home. She attended the College of the Arts in Savannah Georgia. In her earlier years she was a model for Sears Roebuck and then a telephone operator for the telephone company in Georgia. She moved to Florida with her spouse and children and became a government inspector in charge of electrical projects for Spartan Electronics in DeLeon Springs Florida where sonobuoys were made for submarines; she retired as a certified Electrician with the IBEW Union. When she retired she became a homemaker and spent many hours as a caretaker for her parents and children. She enjoyed music and ballroom dancing and won several competitions doing the Charleston and the Jitter Bug. She was an avid angler, gardener and tended to her rose garden. Her favorite flowers were azaleas, crepe myrtle, magnolias and gardenias. She enjoyed camping and traveling and took many family vacations. Her artistic abilities involved drawing for family and friends. She also enjoyed needlepoint and crocheting, reading romance novels, sewing, cooking and bird watching and adored cats and dogs. She was a loyal wife and beloved mother to her children. She was preceded in death by her spouse Zdzislaw Hokaszewski and Sister Christine White of Axson Georgia, mother Ruby Edna Bragg of Axson Georgia and Alvie Williams of Lake City Florida. She is survived by her brother Alvie Jack Williams and wife Mary Jeanne of Lake City Florida. Daughter Carolyn Yacono of Brown Mills New Jersey, daughter Terry Coen and spouse Jeff Coen of Owensville Missouri, son Edmund Hokaszewski and finance Meggan Ahrens of Hot Springs Arkansas, son Leonard Hokaszewski and fiancé Becky Follett of Eustis Florida and Grandmother of 15 grandchildren and many great grandchildren.