Elizabeth Marguerite WENIGER

Elizabeth "Betty" Marguerite (Weniger) Jackson, 91, of Honesdale, died on Saturday, March 23, 2019 at her daughters home in Bethany. She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter C. Jackson on March 24, 1998. The couple married on June 30, 1949. Born on November 11, 1927 in Honesdale, she was the daughter and last surviving member of the Charles J. and Mary E. (O'Brien) Weniger family. She was a graduate of Honesdale Catholic High School and in 1948 received her nursing degree from Mercy Hospital. For 40 years, she was a nurse at Wayne Memorial Hospital and a private duty nurse before retiring. She was well known to sing or hum to her patients while caring for them. Betty was a member of the Retired Nurses Association and the Private Duty Nurses Association. She was also a faithful member of St. John the Evangelist Parish in Honesdale and it's Altar and Rosary Society. She was an original participant in the Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel and a member of the Catholic Daughters of the America's Court St. Martin # 418. Betty loved her family and the time spent together. She started a family Easter Egg Hunt tradition that has occurred the past 40 Easters. She also enjoyed her time with friends and the "breakfast club" that would meet following the 7:30 Mass. Surviving are her five children; two sisters-in-laws. Also her fourteen grandchildren; nineteen great grandchildren; many nieces and nephews, two special cousins, Christina Enslin and Eileen Kennedy and many other cousins. She was preceded in death by her great grandson Christopher Ordnung on December 21, 1998; a sister Esther M. Weniger; brothers Donald F. Weniger, J. Bernard "Bud" Weniger and Gerald J. Weniger; infant siblings Dorothy and Charles. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday, March 29th at St. Mary Magdalen Church, Honesdale at 10 am. Interment will follow in St. Mary's Cemetery. Friends may visit Hessling Funeral Home, Inc., 428 Main St. Honesdale on Thursday, 4 to 7.

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