Jean K. Downing ... formerly of East Rochester

EUSTIS, Fla.- Jean K. Downing, 91, daughter of Gordon Lincoln and Alice Mae (Spaulding) Kennedy born June 7, 1927 in Lexington, Mass., formerly of East Alton, N.H., East Rochester, N.H. and Leesburg, died on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018 while living for the last year in Eustis.
Jean was born, raised and lived into early adulthood on Massachusetts Avenue in East Lexington, Mass. She was a 1945 graduate of Lexington High School, and was part of the first co-ed Wood Shop Class during her senior year. She was a 1947 graduate of Fisher Junior College in Boston, and then moved with her family to East Alton, that year. She was a Medical Secretary at Huggins Hospital in Wolfeboro, N.H. for several years before landing a job at Aetna Life & Casualty in Hartford, Conn.
In her late 20s she met the love of her life Philip Edward Downing of Alton Bay, N.H. On their birthday in 1957, they were married in the historic East Alton Meetinghouse at Gilman's Corner. While raising a family, Jean returned to school and became a licensed New Hampshire Real Estate Broker, working for Downing Real Estate at Downing's Landing with her husband and his brothers Judson H. Downing and Richard S. Downing. Upon her husband Phil's retirement from the Portsmouth Navy Yard, they wintered in Leesburg.
Jean was predeceased by both of her parents, husband Philip Edward, son Mark Frederick and brother Charles Spaulding Kennedy.
She is survived by her loving family: son Charles Spaulding Downing and his wife Bonnie Lou (Heath) of South Berwick, Maine, daughter Katheryn Alice Downing of Dover, N.H., grandson Cory David Moore, partner Trisha James and great granddaughter Tiffany James of Haslet, Texas, granddaughter Mandy D. (Moore) Barriball and husband Michael of Solomons, Md., great granddaughter Sarah J. Moore of Greenwood, S.C., great grandson Shawn M. Barriball of Denton, Texas, granddaughter Jennie (Yeung) Lamothe and husband Reggie of Chicopee, Mass., granddaughter Elaine Yeung of Jackson, Wy., granddaughter Elisa (Yeung) Martin, husband Jake, great granddaughters Kennedy Elisabeth Martin and Keira Rayne Martin of Grand Rapids, Mich.