JEANNINE D. MORIN Artist, Teacher, Interior Designer WATERBURY ~ Jeannine (Duguay) Morin, 83, of Waterbury, found peace January 27th at Waterbury Hospital, after several years of persistent health problems. Jeannine was born December 16, 1925 in Waterbury, daughter of the late Martial and Marie (Grenier) Duguay, and was educated in Quebec Canada. In and after WWII, she worked for U.S. Time, Singer, Lux Clock, and Shoe Hardware. As a seamstress making draperies and slipcovers, she evolved her business into interior design, graduating from the New York School of Interior Design, serving many customers in the area for more than 50 years. For much of that time she taught painting privately to several hundred area children and adults. She received several awards for her art, which has been displayed in the U.S., France, Canada, and Life Magazine including 2nd place in the competition for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Stamp, with that portrait hanging in the Kennedy Library in Boston. She was a former president and vice-president of the Waterbury Art and Craft Association, and member of Artists and Writers of Connecticut, the Cheshire and Watertown Art Leagues, and of the Ladies of St. Anne, The Federation Feminine and a communicant of the Shrine of St. Anne. She leaves a son, Gary Morin of Waterbury, and a sister, Rose Marie (Duguay) Levesque, of Montreal, Canada, several nieces and nephews, and their children. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, January 31 at 10 am at Woodtick Memorial, 420 Woodtick Rd., Wolcott, leaving at 11 am for burial at New Pine Grove Cemetery. Family and friends may call at the funeral home on Friday from 5 to 8 pm.

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