Jewel E. Rowe
Retired USCI-C.R. Bard Receptionist
TEWKSBURY - Jewel E. Rowe, age 84, a resident of Emerald Court in Tewksbury, formerly of Merrimack, NH, Lowell, North Attleboro, and Hingham, passed away at D’Youville Center for Advanced Therapy in Lowell on Sunday, July 12, 2020, following an extended illness.
She was the beloved wife of Norman E. Rowe, to whom she was married 41 years until he predeceased her in 2017.
Born in Boston on July 8, 1934, and raised in Hingham, she was the daughter of the late Burton Peaslee and the late Elizabeth (Jewell) Peaslee.
Jewell was a child of Massachusetts’ South Shore. She attended Hingham schools and graduated from Hingham High School.
Prior to her retirement in 1993, she was employed as a receptionist and phone operator by USCI, a division of the C.R. Bard Company in Billerica.
Jewel enjoyed spending childhood summers in Tewksbury on the farm of her grandparents, Asahel and Helen (French) Jewell. A hardworking single mom and faithful wife, she also enjoyed knitting, crocheting, participating at Fifth Street Baptist Church in Lowell and Community Chapel in Nashua, NH, and being in the company of family and friends.
She is survived by her children Joel B. Guillemette and his wife Wendy, Jill Robinson, and Janet Gowan and her husband, George Jr; ten grandchildren, several step-grandchildren, great-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren.
Graveside services to be held at the Tewksbury Cemetery on Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 2 p.m.
Donations in her memory may be made to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, 133 Federal Street, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02110.