Jeanette McKenna

Jeanette McKenna, of Hernando, passed away peacefully at Vitas Hospice in Lecanto on Monday evening, July 29, 2024. She was 87. Jeanette was born in Willimantic, CT to John and Marie (Lewicki) Chrabaszcz, and was their only child. Daughter, traveler, registered nurse, wife, mother.
Dedicated, over her life, to her extended family and their children, with weekly trips home to visit her father, and cousins after she was married. She met and married Edward McKenna later in life on a blind date set up by mutual friends, and that commitment to family naturally extended to his extended family. They started their lives together much later than their peers of the age in rural Connecticut after both of them had grown up in factory towns, however Jeanette and Edward were married about 48 years before he passed away in 2021. Moving to Florida from Connecticut in 1997, and settled in Hernando for retirement and to have friends and family visit them when they were in the state. She was Catholic. Her son Raymond McKenna survives her, along with many other family members.
Funeral services for Jeanette will be held Friday, August 9, 2024 at 11am in Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home Chapel, with Fr. Michael Suszynski. She will be laid to rest with her husband in Florida National Cemetery. Arrangements are under the care of Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home with Cremation Care, Inverness.