Services will be held at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church on Friday, January 18, 2019 at 10:00 AM. Friends and family may call at the church one hour before mass.
Jeanette was a graduate of St. Joseph Academy and Clarke College. She interned in dietetics at Montefiore Hospital, New York City. She was employed as a dietitian for the Veteran’s Administration in Indianapolis and Madison. After her marriage to Richard Lewandowski, she worked for several Milwaukee hospitals and as a consultant dietitian at Methodist Manor Nursing Home.
After retiring and returning to Dubuque, she was a volunteer at Mercy Hospital.
Jeanette was born January 10, 1925 in Dubuque to Wilson Smith and Anne Rietjens Smith.
She married Richard Lewandowski on September 12, 1953 at St. Mary’s Church, Dubuque. They had a son and a daughter.
Jeanette is survived by her son Steven Lewandowski of San Diego, CA, her daughter Annie Dakin of Canton, GA, and her son-in-law Stan Dakin, who was her full time caregiver the past 20 months. Also, her grandson Jeffrey Snyder, his wife Katherine Snyder, three great-grandchildren, Madelyn, Jaxson, and Myla; her sister and brother-in-law, Bob and Betty Beecher, cousin Patsy Roesner, nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by her husband Richard Joseph Lewandowski and grandson Joseph Richard Snyder.
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