Janice Dutney

SHELDON, VT/COLEBROOK, NH/DRACUT, MA - Janice McLoon Chenevert Dutney passed away on Dec. 13, 2007, at her home in Sheldon, Vermont, after a long illness. The only child of Dudley Page McLoon and Glendys (Emerson), she was born on July 26, 1921, in Lowell, MA. She graduated from Lowell High School and Colby Sawyer College. She worked as a secretary in Boston where she met her first husband Bernard Chenevert. They married on May 14, 1944. They operated a grocery store in Lancaster, MA, until 1960. She then worked as secretary to the Superintendent of Lancaster Girls Reform School. In 1967 they moved to Dracut, MA, and she worked as a secretary to the Supt. of Schools. Her husband predeceased her in 1968. After his death she worked as Executive Secretary to the Board of Selectman for the town of Dracut, MA. She married Dexter Dutney on Sept. 9, 1972. Upon retirement in 1981, she and Dexter moved to Colebrook, NH, where they lived with her son and his family. She was an avid quilter, reader, and shopping for a bargain. She shared in Dexters many Kiwanis activities. She was a member of The Daughters of The American Revolution. Dexter died of cancer in 2001. She made her final move to Sheldon, VT, in 2006. She is survived by a son, Frederick Chenevert, and his wife, Norma, of Sheldon, VT; a daughter, Glendys Phelan, and husband, William, of North Andover, MA, 3 grandchildren : Jennifer Russell of St Albans, VT, Kate Phelan of Keene , NH, and William Phelan of North Andover, MA. 3 stepchildren: Dexter Dutney Jr and wife, Kim, of Thornton, CO, Dennis Dutney and wife, Nancy, of Dracut, MA, Mary Gail Feeley and husband, Ed, of Bluffton, SC. There will be no calling hours or service. A graveside service will be held at a later date in the Richardson Cemetery in Dracut, MA. Donations in her memory may be made to The American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 1460, Williston, VT 05495-1460