Life_Dynamix
Posted September 11, 2009 by Life_Dynamix
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Birth: February 07, 1972

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Passing: September 05, 2009

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Visitation:Visitation Friday after 8:30am at the Cavanagh Family Funeral Home, Norwood.

Jennifer Lynne (nee Street) Clarke, 37, of South Mills NC, formerly of Ridley Park, on September 5, 2009 at Norfold General Hospital. She was born February 7, 1972 in Upper Darby the daughter of Thomas J. Street and Lynne M. Miller. Jennifer was a 1990 graduate of Cardinal O'Hara High School and the Chubbs Institute. She worked as a secretary for Norfolk Southern Corporation, was a assistant leader in her daughter's Girl Scout Troop and enjoyed gardening, genealogy, writing, cooking and making jewelry. She also enjoyed animals and would rescue them and keep them as pets. Jennifer was a very gentle person who enjoyed spending time with her family especially her children. She was preceded in death by her grandparents John T. and Rita C. (nee Parkhill) Street and Bayard Cooper and Marion (nee Merchant) Miller, her great grandparents John J. and Mary V. (nee O'Donnell) Parkhill and Ted and Helen J. (nee Street) Raymond, her aunt Marion Melbourne and her uncle Edward J. Street. In addition to her parents she is survived by her husband Richard Clarke; three children Elizabeth Annamaria Clarke, Schuyler Aaron Clarke and Ethan McGuire Clarke; her sister Holly T. (nee Street) Dietrich (Matthew Adam); and her aunts and uncles Janet Miller Sikora, Lois Miller Tallon, Loretta Miller Hastings, Bayard W. Miller, Joanne Miller Manuel, Stephen J. Miller, Elaine Miller Bortman, Suzanne Miller, Dolores Miller, Helen C. O'Neal, John T. Street Jr. and Joan Gaduaso. Relatives and friends are invited to her visitation Friday after 8:30am at the Cavanagh Family Funeral Home 301 Chester Pike, Norwood. A Funeral Mass will be held Friday 11am at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Morton. Interment private.

In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to Adopt A Pet Foundation P.O. Box 6384 Freehold, NJ 07728.

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Holly wrote at September 15, 2009
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I am thankful that this was put up. My name is Holly and Jennifer is my sister.

I want to post her Eulogy that I was able to read at her funeral:
Jennifer Lynne Street


My beautiful beloved sister, I look up to you so much. I wanted you to be free and happy for so long. We are so close and death won’t take that from us. From the day I was born you were my star. I wanted to do everything you did and wanted to be just like you. So beautiful, so funny and always hatching up some fun and exciting new game or adventure. I know I annoyed you at times when we were kids. I really wasn’t too shocked when you told me not too long ago that when we were kids and played cops and robbers, you would tie Jackie and I up just so you could go and have a break from us for a while. You would hang out with you friends who were your age and have a snack and we would patiently sit in “prison”. It was Genius!!!


We really became the best of friends and confidants when Mom and Dad divorced. We spent so much time together. When Dad was at work we would have dance parties in the living room, lights turned out, and enjoying our favorite music by Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails and oddly Samantha Fox.


We would often joke that we were actually twins born a few years too late from the other.


We both had an extreme love of Halloween. I believe the last time we spoke you had asked me if I had seen the Halloween stuff at the Dollar General. You and I both loved the book the Great Gatsby and our favorite line was “whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” Of course this never stopped us from giving our opinions about people. Our favorite movie was Plain Trains and Automobiles. Most Thanksgivings we weren’t together so we would watch that movie and then talk about it. That was our way of being with one another in our own way.


I remember you getting pregnant with Elizabeth and I thought I’m going to lose my sister. That could not have been further from the truth. We spent so much time together with our beautiful little Elizabeth. We would take her everywhere that we loved to go as children like Brandywine Battlefield, Ridley Creek State park and of course the dollar store we where we could shop like queens.


More excitement came when Schuyler was born. He was so big, beautiful and strong and had a propensity to eat cat food. We were always together doing our food shopping, making our trips to the dollar store and our many trips to Ridley Creek State park.


Again our family received another wonderful gift when little Ethan came to join us. It was a very hard delivery for you and you were so concerned for Ethan because he came out with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck. I remember you absolutely made sure that you wrote a warm thank you card to the doctor who delivered him.


I loved being around you and the kids. What fun we had. You and I would just talk and laugh and that was the best time in the world for us. We didn’t have to be doing anything.


My heart broke the day you moved to Georgia. I hated the thought of not having my sister with me. I had you everyday and then you were so many states away.


But distance could not separate us. We laughed in its face if it thought it could. I would go and visit your beautiful home and had so much admiration for how beautiful you made everything there.
You did so much:
You cared for and healed sick animals
You loved animals so much you became a vegan
You understood the spirit, the soul and nature
You had great intuition and you would warn me of things, you knew when people were honest and my most favorite was you always could correctly tell the sex of a person’s baby before they knew.
You were an extremely talented writer and artist.


I relied so much on you for advice. Everything you said was comfort and magic for my heart.


The last year had been so hard for you. I wanted to move mountains and fight whatever battle I could so you could be in a happy place with the people that loved you so much. It was going to happen but we just ran out of time.


I know you are in a place where you can look after us all in your special way until we can again be together.

I’m so sorry we didn’t have more time my Beautiful Loving Sister
Holly
Syrno wrote at September 11, 2009
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Thank You Steven! This means the world to me...Syrno:crying:
Syrno