- Date Of Birth: September 29, 1922
- Date Of Death: March 23, 2017
- State: Massachusetts
HAVERHILL – Jean M. (Kardek) Paulauskas, 94, of Amesbury, formerly of Haverhill, beloved mother, mother in-law, grandmother, sister, aunt, and great-aunt passed away peacefully on March 23, surrounded by her loving family at the Merrimack Valley Hospice House.
Jean was born in Amesbury on September 29, 1922 to Nellie and Peter Kardek. She was the elder of their family’s five children and attended Amesbury schools. As the daughter of Polish immigrants, she took great pride in teaching the English language to her parents. Growing up during the depression years and being the elder child of her family, she worked tirelessly to help support her parents and family. Early in her career she worked in the accounting office of the Amesbury Hat Factory, the Henschel Company, and Towle Silver in Newburyport. After her marriage, she made her home in Haverhill and was employed by Western Electric. As she joyfully started a family and wanted to be close to home, she worked for decades as a fancy stitcher and sample shoe maker for the Allen Shoe Company in Haverhill until her retirement. Her creativity and sewing skills also lead her to work part time at Samuel Roberts Clothier in Haverhill creating sample fashions. Jean was a member of the Saint George’s Catholic Woman’s Club.
While enjoying dancing during the Big Band Era, she met and fell in love with the Club Mayfield Orchestra’s pianist. She married him, the love of her life, Joseph Daniel, on February 4, 1951. They shared 61 wonderful years of marriage, loved each other deeply, were each other’s best friend and were truly inseparable.
Jean’s favorite times were spent at the family’s camp at Lake Attitash. There she enjoyed her passions of cooking, gardening, and entertaining. She spent countless happy hours on the lake boating, sailing, fishing, and swimming. She so loved the members of her lake family as they spent so many years together watching generation after generation grow up and enjoy the lake. Jean’s most cherished moments at the lake were raising her daughter there and in later years being able to share the special place with her grandson. It brought her such joy to share the lake with all of the children in her family from nieces and nephews to great nieces and great nephews. Each day was always a fun filled adventure.
As an accomplished cake decorator, she was always called upon to create the family’s anniversary cakes and lovingly made each of her daughter’s birthday cakes. Jean loved sewing, cooking, and reading recipe books and sharing these loves with her daughter. She was a true Red Sox and Patriots fan sharing the games with her family.
More importantly, Jean will be remembered by all those that know her for her kind, caring, loving, heart. She always put others before herself and always did it happily. Her sunny outlook on life and warm smile made everyone and everything better. Her true love of life was amazing. Faith and devotion to her family were her cornerstones.
