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BERNARDINI, JEAN BOLADO, 62
BERNARDINI, JEAN BOLADO, 62, of Barre City, died January 30 at her home, battling multiple myeloma cancer with dignity and courage, since 2004. Her family was at her bedside. Born Jean Emilia Bolado, on Aug. 26, 1950, in Barre City, she was the daughter of Richard and Marilyn (Shepard) Bolado. Jean graduated from Spaulding High School in 1968, and attended the Thompson School of Practical Nursing in Brattleboro. She was employed for many years by the State of Vermont in various departments, and had also worked at the Vermont State Employees Credit Union. Prior to her retirement, Jean had worked in the classified department of The Times Argus in Barre. Her special interests were antiquing, home decorating and stenciling, as well as spending time with her grandchildren. She also enjoyed apple picking, playing cards, trips to the Maine coast and Tucson, Ariz., and volunteer work at Central Vermont Hospital. Following an earlier marriage and divorce, Jean married Douglas L. Bernardini on Oct. 1, 1992, in East Barre. They had lived in Montpelier, Tucson, Ariz., and since 2007, at their present home. Besides her husband Doug, she leaves two sons: Brian McAvoy and wife, Katina, and Bradley McAvoy and fiancée, Jill Draper, all of Barre City; three grandchildren; a stepdaughter, Cynthia Shamlian in New Jersey; stepsons Michael Bernardini in California, and Steven Bernardini and wife, Nancy, of Langhorne, Pa.; 10 step-grandchildren; two sisters: Janet Reynolds and husband, Gordon, and Joann Scherk and husband, David; sisters-in-law, Connie Hudson and Sally Foti; a nephew and three nieces; three aunts: Eva Brown, Virginia Martin and Gloria Shepard; and many cousins. Also surviving is her former daughter-in-law, Susan McAvoy. Her parents and infant sister, Lisa Maria, predeceased her.
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