Jennifer Rahel Conover

Jennifer Rahel Conover died at her home in Ft. Lauderdale, FL on July 27, 2019 of a heart attack. Born in New York city she was the daughter of Rahel Davies Walker Fitch Broun, of Washington, D.C. and Brigadier General Burdette M. Fitch of San Francisco. General Fitch served on the staffs of General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing and General Douglas MacArthur in the South West Pacific Theater in WWII and was awarded the Legión D’Honneur for his service during WWII. She had an older half-sister, the late Suzanne Whitham Walker King Wright. Her grandfather was the Honorable Joseph E. Davies, Ambassador to the USSR and envoy of FDR, her uncle was Senator Millard Tydings, and her recently deceased first cousin, Senator Joseph D. Tydings.

She graduated from Holton-Arms School (where her mother, aunts, and daughter attended) and attended Briarcliff College and American University. She modeled briefly before working as an interior designer at Rablen Shelton in Ft. Lauderdale (decorating the Nixon San Clemente and DC residences). She was a talented artist who painted in various mediums. She published a book “Toasts for Every Occasion: Warm, Wise, and Witty Words Collected from Around the World” and travelled to every continent, writing for travel magazines and newspapers. She was a skilled yachtswoman—always welcomed as a crewwoman on any size boat. She was a member of The Explorers Club, the Ft. Lauderdale Junior League, the Royal Rogues Yacht Club, and the CSYC of Ft. Lauderdale. Fiercely proud of her Welsh heritage, she often contributed pieces on Welsh culture and had started learning the language when she died.

Her marriages to Francis Xavier Crowley of Ft. Lauderdale and Aristides I. Moleón of Washington, DC ended in divorce. She was happily married to Theodore Max Conover for 36 years. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Conover is survived by daughter Rahel Crowley and son-in-law Gregory Janetos of Mill Valley, CA; grandchildren Isabel Janetos of Washington, DC, Lucas Janetos of San Francisco, and Emlen Knight Janetos of Mill Valley; and beloved goddaughter Nola Black Murphy of Tampa, FL. Her family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the American Cancer Society.