09/09/07 - NNHS Newsletter Jean Jones Aniello

Jean Catherine Jones Aniello
(20 Nov 1927 - 23 May 2007)

Newport News High School Class of 194_

Jean Catherine Jones Aniello
 

POMPTON PLAINS, N.J. - Jean Catherine Jones Aniello of Pompton Plains, N.J., died on May 23, 2007. She lived with grace, died with dignity, and is now healed. She was buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa, N.J.

Jean was born in Goldsboro, N.C., on Nov. 20, 1927, and moved to Newport News at the beginning of the Great Depression in 1931. She attended Stonewall Jackson Elementary School and Newport News High School. At the beginning of World War II, she dropped out of high school, added a few years to her age, and went to work for the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company as a war time telephone operator. When the war in Europe ended she met and married returning Army Air Force B-17 pilot John Aniello and relocated with him to his hometown, Patterson, N.J. In New Jersey, her husband joined the State Police and also worked as a dye chemist at a fabric manufacturer in Patterson. Jean was manager at Cloth World in Wayne, N.J., where they later lived. She also later worked at Jo-Ann's Fabrics in Mahwah, N.J.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Aniello is survived by four daughters, Judy Rostello (Emil), Janet Friedline (Chuck), Joyce Mire (Christopher) and JoAnn Beneat (John); two sons, John and James (Gina); 14 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

In Virginia, Jean is predeceased by her parents, Pearl Lewis Jones and James Henry Daniel Jones. She is survived by her dear sister, Uldine McMahon (John); nieces, Theresa Cannon and Cynthia Miller (Wayne); and nephews, James Tolbert (Linda) and Patrick McMahon. In North Carolina, she is survived by her brother, Von Alton Jones, several nieces and nephews, and many cousins.

Published in the Daily Press on 9/9/2007.
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