Jean H. Hope

JEAN HELEN HOPE

JEAN H. HOPE OF WESTHAMPTON, NEW YORK, FORMERLY OF SAG HARBOR, NEW YORK, DIED ON NOVEMBER 22, WITH HER FAMILY AT HER SIDE, AT THE WESTHAMPTON CARE CENTER. SHE WAS 94.

BORN ON JUNE 21, 1931, TO KATHRYN AND JOHN MCGANN OF THE BRONX, NEW YORK, SHE WAS THE OLDEST OF TWO CHILDREN, HER YOUNGER SISTER, PATRICIA, WAS BORN TEN YEARS LATER. JEAN WAS BORN DURING THE DEPRESSION. HER FATHER WORKED IN CONSTRUCTION AND HER MOTHER WORKED AT CORNELL’S AS A SALESPERSON. HER FATHER LATER JOINED THE NAVY AND SERVED IN THE PACIFIC DURING WORLD WAR II.

JEAN GRADUATED FROM SACRED HEART CATHOLIC SCHOOL, EARNED A HIGHT SCHOOL DIPLOMA AND WENT ON TO WORK IN NEW YORK CITY WITH THE NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE AS A QUOTATIONS OPERATOR. SHE LATER WORKED WITH THE NEW YORK TELEPHONE CO. EVENTUALLY BECOMING A BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE FOR VERIZON AT THE TIME OF HER RETIREMENT IN RIVERHEAD.

JEAN MARRIED HER CHILDHOOD SWEETHEART, THOMAS PATRICK HOPE, IN 1951 AND THEY ENJOYED RAISING A FAMILY OF THREE CHILDREN IN FARMINGDALE, NEW YORK AND LATER, THEIR RETIREMENT YEARS IN SAG HARBOR WITH THEIR ADORED SCHNAUZER, MISSEY.  JEAN ENJOYED THE PROXIMITY TO HER TWO DAUGHTERS AND GRANDCHILDREN AND ATTENDED MANY LOCAL SCHOOL EVENTS. SHE ESPECIALLY WELCOMED TRAVELING WITH HER DAUGHTER, IRENE’S FAMILY ON FAMILY TRIPS AND LATER, DAILY PARTICIPATION AT THE SOUTHAMPTON TOWN SENIOR CENTER IN BRIDGEHAMPTON. SADLY, JEAN AND TOM, MOURNED THE LOSS OF THEIR MIDDLE CHILD, LORETTA HOPE, AND SOON AFTER MOVED TO THE VILLA OF WESTHAMPTON IN 2017. THEY HAD A FULL AND PLEASANT SOCIAL LIFE AT THE VILLA. HER LOVING HUSBAND DIED IN 2020 OF COVID.

JEAN IS SURVIVED BY HER DAUGHTER, IRENE HOPE GAZZA AND SON-IN-LAW, JOSEPH GAZZA, AND HER SON, THOMAS JOSEPH HOPE, AS WELL AS FIVE GRANDCHILDREN; JOSEPH ZACHARY GAZZA, BLAIR KATHRINE GAZZA GRAU AND MOLLY ANN GAZZA, AS WELL AS FIVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; WAVERLY AND GEORGIANA GRAU AND MASON, JAMES AND COLE DOYLE.

A PRIVATE CATHOLIC MASS WAS HELD AT IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24. 2025 AND INTERMENT WILL FOLLOW AT ST. CHARLES CATHOLIC CEMETERY AT A LATER DATE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE WERNER- ROTHWELL FUNERAL HOME IN WESTHAMPTON BEACH, NEW YORK. DONATIONS MAY BE ARRANGED IN JEAN HOPE’S NAME AT THE SENIOR SERVICES FOR THE TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON BRIDGEHAMPTON LOCATION BY CALLING (631) 537-3027.

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