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 Jean Magner
September 27, 2007
Jean Magner, 80, of 235 Walker St. and 2400 South Ocean Drive, Fort Pierce, Fla., died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center.
Born in Pittsfield on Feb. 27, 1927, daughter of Walter and Alice Purnell Guiltinan, she graduated from St. Joseph's High School in 1944 and from the College of New Rochelle in 1948.
Mrs. Magner was employed as a teacher and librarian for several Pittsfield elementary schools, retiring in 1986. She began her career teaching deaf children in Pittsfield schools.
She was a communicant of Sacred Heart Church, a member of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program at Hancock Shaker Village and a volunteer at St. Joseph's soup kitchen.
She and her husband, William F. Magner II, celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary June 9. They were married at St. Mark's Church.
Besides her husband, she leaves two sons, William F. Magner III of Chevy Chase, Md., and J. Anthony Magner of New York City; four daughters, Virginia Knoblauch of Holmdel, N.J., and Mary Kay McCloskey, Elizabeth A. Avery and Jane Magner-Pixley, all of Pittsfield; a brother, Richard Guiltinan of Stuart, Fla.; two sisters, Mary Pat Flood of Thousand Oaks, Calif., and Claire Pezzini of Camarillo, Calif.; and 11 grandchildren.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- The funeral for Jean Guiltinan Magner, who died Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007, will be Monday at 10 a.m. at DWYER FUNERAL HOME, 776 North St., Pittsfield, with a Liturgy of Christian Burial celebrated at 11 a.m. at Sacred Heart Church by the Rev. James K. Joyce, pastor.
Burial will follow in St. Joseph's Cemetery. Calling hours will be Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. at the funeral home. Loving grandmother to Hannah Knoblauch, Emily, Nora and Kevin McCloskey, Tate and Quinn Magner, Charlotte and William Avery, and Kristina, Dimitri and Nikolai Pixley, and beloved mother-in-law to William Knoblauch, John McCloskey, David Avery, Craig Pixley and Maria Magner.
She was predeceased by a brother, Walter Guiltinan.
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