Weare, NH

Virginia (Ginny) Dow Brennan, 90, of 37 Quaker Street, died December 13, 2010, at her home surrounded by three generations of her family.

Ginny was born in Weare on May 1, 1920, the daughter of Harry Dow and Gladys (White) Dow.

She grew up in North Weare Village and attended Weare schools. Ginny was an outstanding athlete and graduated with a degree in Physical Education from UNH in 1942. During World War II she worked as a quality control supervisor producing aircraft instruments in Hartford, Connecticut.

After the war, she and her husband Walter (Joe) Brennan built a dairy and poultry farm in Weare. They raised four children on the farm and Ginny made many other children welcome with skating parties, baseball games and swimming trips to “The Reservoir” where she kept hawk eyes on her own kids and everybody else’s. She presided over weekly family “Friday Fiasco” suppers right up to the end.

Her family includes her husband, Joe Brennan, who died in 2002; one son, Arthur Brennan and his wife Nancy of Weare; a daughter, Jean Stafford and her husband, William (Bill) Stafford of Weare; a daughter, Joan Brennan Boyle and her husband, Gary Boyle, of Littleton; and a daughter, Jane Brennan of Weare. Grandchildren are Molly Brennan of Chicago, Illinois; Kate Brennan of Jackson, Wyoming; Mike Stafford of Weare; Jenny Gordon and her husband Josh Gordon of Bow; Connor Boyle of Boston, Massachusetts; Kerry Boyle of Woodsville; Cavan Boyle of Boston, Massachusetts; River Clegg of New Haven, Connecticut; and Mariah Brennan Clegg of Williamstown, Massachusetts. Great-grandchildren are Logan Gordon and Ally Gordon of Bow; and Diana Stafford and Haley Stafford of Weare. Ginny was predeceased by her sisters, Rosamond (Rosie) Colburn of Weare, and Rebecca (Becky or Bec) Moore of Weare. Ginny also had many nieces and nephews and grandnieces and nephews.

Ginny enjoyed time with her extended family and friends; catching hornpout for the annual fish fry up on Craney Hill with her sisters; reading and sports, particularly the Boston Red Sox, the Celtics and the Patriots.

A public get-together in Ginny’s memory will take place at The American Legion Post #65 in Weare Center at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 19.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Concord Regional VNA Hospice Care, The Slusser Center, Development Office, 30 Pillsbury Street, Concord, NH 03301.

The Holt-Woodbury Funeral Home & Cremation Service Henniker, NH is in charge of arrangements. For more log on to www.holtwoodburyfh.com

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