In December, 2019, after four years of courtship and nearly seventy years of marriage, our parents, Ann Peterson Jeannero and Douglas Marshall Jeannero, formerly of Fremont, Michigan, both passed away. Contrary to Mom's very clear instructions, Dad left us first on December 4, and Mom followed on the 19th. We can imagine him receiving an earful upon their reunion since their understanding was always that Mom would go first. An excellent storyteller and creator of the lame Dad joke, Dad was born in 1926 and grew up in Canton, Ohio as one of seven children and twin to his brother, Don. While being a member of a large family during the Depression years must have had its hardships, Dad always relayed the best of his childhood memories to us, his three daughters, Nan, Susan, and Jane. We heard tales of his and Don's derring-do as four year olds throwing rocks through car windshields and how he exercised horses for a man whose daughter was afraid to ride them. He loved riding those horses. We also heard his stories of adventure as Don and he enlisted in the Army and were a part of the occupation force in Japan after the war. The best story, however, was about his time as a summer camp counselor near Manistique, Michigan, after he returned from the service. The camp was located in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, outside of Mom's home town and the location of her father's real estate office. Mom covered the phone during Grandpa's lunch break, and Dad happened to meet her when he and a friend stopped in the office while looking for local girls to attend a party at the camp. Some sixty years later, Dad would say, "I remember the first time I saw her like it was yesterday." They did not begin dating, though, until later in the fall when they met each other at the University of Michigan. According to Dad, they happened to run into each other on campus outside the Romance Language building (this location is no doubt an embellishment as Mom would always snort at this point in the story). Mom, born in 1928, was the elder sister to her brother, Peter. The two of them grew up enjoying the benefits that a small Upper Peninsula town offered, lots of time swimming in the quarry and the Big Lake in the summer, and skiing and ice skating in the winter. Her parents, both University of Michigan graduates, helped kindle her desire to go to college in Ann Arbor. Mom and Dad were married a month after her graduation in 1950, and they lived in Ann Arbor after he earned his MBA and while he worked at Ford. In 1954, Dad accepted a position at Gerber Products Company, and they moved to Fremont at the same time as a number of other couples who would eventually become their good friends. In the last years of their lives, Mom and Dad recounted with gratitude how fortunate they had been throughout their lives. They were able to live the way they wanted to live — Dad had a wonderful career at Gerber, retiring in 1985. Mom raised their three daughters with the idea that we could do whatever we put our minds to, and we did. After retirement, Mom and Dad divided their time between summers in Fremont with dear friends and family, and winters in San Diego without snow. They loved travel, ice cream, golf, Wolverine football, and especially, their two grandsons, David and Ian, the children of Jane and her husband, Mike Douglass. GRAVESIDE SERVICES will be held on Saturday, April 25, 2020 at 11:30am at the Maple Grove Cemetery 600 S Division Fremont MI 49412. In their memory, contributions may be made to TrueNorth Community Services at TrueNorthServices.org in Fremont or to Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan at HospiceSWMI.org. Friends may send a condolence or share a memory with the Jeannero family online at www.crandellfh.com. Graveside Service Maple Grove Cemetery Saturday, April 25, 2020 600 S Division Fremont, MI 49412