Jeannine M. Brady, 58, Norwalk Public School Nurse

Jeannine M. Brady, 58, died on Wednesday, April 25, at her home in Westport surrounded by her loving family after a two year battle with cancer.

Jeannine was born in 1954 in Worcester, Massachusetts to Alfred Gosselin and Beverley (Graton) Gosselin. Left to cherish her memory are her parents, three children, Christopher, his wife Andrea Villanti and their daughter Nora; Caitlin and her wife Marianne, and Marissa; three siblings, Denise Healey of Worcester, Paul of Cambridge, Massachusetts and David of Lexington, Kentucky and her husband of 38 years John J. Brady who recently retired as Superintendent of Schools for the Amity Regional School District.

For the past fifteen years, Jeannine served the children of the Norwalk Public Schools as a school nurse, first at Brookside Elementary School and for the past eight years at Cranbury Elementary School. During her long career in nursing, she best loved her work with the children she served in Norwalk and her experiences as a labor and delivery nurse in Milford and Worcester, Massachusetts. She was the 2012 recipient of the “Nightingale Award for Excellence in Nursing”.

Jeannine loved Westport, especially her cherished sunsets at Compo Beach.  As an avid bargain hunter, she loved a good tag sale. She will be remembered for her caring and giving nature and her drive for excellence in everything she did.

Among her many interests and hobbies, she is best known for her love of reading, design and creation of sock monkeys, stained glass portraits, glass painting as well as knitting and crocheting. She loved family, and enjoyed many wonderful summers with her family and friends in West Harwich Massachusetts, where the family maintaines a summer home. She was an active member of Allen’s Harbor Yacht Club in Harwichport, Massachusetts.

A Memorial Mass will be held at 4PM on Monday, April 30, at St. Jerome Church, Norwalk, with a reception to follow, in the church hall. His family will receive friends on Sunday from 3 to 5PM at the , 12 Mott Avenue, Norwalk.

In lieu of flowers, Mrs. Brady has asked that donations be made to the “Jeannine M. Brady Nursing Scholarship” care of Maryann DiMeglio, Norwalk High School, 23 Calvin Murphy Drive, Norwalk, CT 06851 or to St. Jerome’s Catholic Church, 23 Half Mile Rd, Norwalk, CT 06850 .