Janet E. Reeves' Obituary
Janet Eileen Reeves, née Smith, 85, of Wesley Chapel, Florida, a retired legal secretary, beloved
mother and loving grandmother, died of complications from Alzheimer’s in the early hours of
Thursday, June 10.
Born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, to Horace and Carmen Smith, she emigrated with her family to
the United States in 1947, and grew up in Westfield, NJ. She was graduated from Westfield
High School and the Berkeley School of East Orange. She attended the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro. She married Harold Shillito Reeves in 1968, who passed away in 2002.
She is survived by her two children, Harold Smith Reeves, of Great Falls, VA, and his wife
Daniela Reeves, and Jennifer Anne Richard, of Wesley Chapel, FL, and her husband, Robert
Richard, and two grandchildren, Katherine and Lauren Richard. Arrangements are being
handled by Trinity Funeral Home.
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