Warren Nathanial (Bud) Jenne, 92, Bridgewater VT

It's with great sadness the family of Bud Jenne announces his peaceful passing on January 4 ^th , 2022, at the Jack Byrne Center for Palliative and Hospice Care in Lebanon, NH. Bud, the youngest of two children, was born May 15 ^th , 1929, in Fitchburg, MA, to Eva Mae Brown Jenne and Frank Nathanial Jenne. Their family lived on Milk St, which would prove to be serendipitous in his life.

In his youth he spent summers on the Jenne Farm in Reading, VT. His experience working and learning about dairy farming from his uncles on the Jenne Farm planted the seeds for his love of farming. In his own memoir, Bud tells of discussing it with his father, and when he was in high school the family moved from the city of Fitchburg to rural Bridgewater Center, buying a farm with an established milk route. The Oak Chapel Dairy Farm operated for many years. The family shared chores, Bud and his sister Thelma bottled the milk, and Bud helped with the milk route. He learned to drive a team of draft horses to gather the sap during maple sugaring season; and he learned the breeding and feeding of, and caring for, their registered Holstein cows. His memoir includes the happiest memories of deer and rabbit hunting, and fishing, with his father, as well as hiking the hills around the farm.

Bud met Joan Paige at Woodstock Union High School, and after they graduated, they married. They built their home on a piece of farmland given by his parents, logged the land, and milled the lumber from the trees on the land. Many happy years of family activity came along after David, Sandi, and Greg were born. Bud's memoir recounts that the farm was not enough to support three generations, so he looked for a business to buy. As luck would have it, a business in Bridgewater was for sale. He bought a garage and fuel oil business on Rt. 4, which became Jenne's Arco and Home Heating Oil, and later Jenne's HOCO. Bud took what he knew and reinvented himself, offering auto mechanic services, gasoline and an oil route. And that wouldn't be his last business. He partnered with friend Dean Fraser to create Cobb Hill Enterprises, a logging operation.

Joan had kept the books for the oil business until her cancer diagnosis. Joan passed away in 1983, leaving Bud broken hearted. But he found love again with Mary Booth Hazen Jenne, and they enjoyed many years of traveling first via RV, and then abroad. They saw much of the US, including Alaska, Honduras, Panama, Cuba, Germany, and Thailand, to name just a few countries. They built homes with Habitat for Humanity, were active members of the Church of Our Savior at Mission Farm in Killington, VT, and enjoyed lake time in North Hero as well as camp in Chateauguay. They were rarely separated, and loved one another deeply.

Bud's lifelong interests included alpine and cross country skiing, snowmobiling, woodworking in his shop, sugaring, gardening, and hiking. Although he made friends wherever he went, he was most comfortable in the woods, whether he was hunting or marking property lines with yellow paint. Even in the last months of his life he liked to go for rides, and if he happened to be on the backroads of Bridgewater he would exclaim, "God, I love Bridgewater".

He is survived by his wife Mary Jenne; daughter Sandi Simonds (Jack) of Bradenton, FL; son Greg Jenne (Wendy), of Bridgewater Corners, VT; three stepdaughters: Jennifer Meservey (Geoff) of Hingham, MA; Kim Lovo (John) of Rotonda, FL; and Linda Hazen of Rutland, VT; several beloved grandchildren and great grandchildren. Bud was predeceased by his first wife Joan Jenne, parents Frank and Eva Jenne, beloved son David, sister Thelma Jillson, sister in-law Joyce Paige Winslow, and two brothers in-law, Raymond Jillson and Peter Winslow.

A celebration for Bud Jenne's life will be held at the Church of Our Savior Mission Farm in Killington on Saturday August 6, 2022 beginning at 1:00pm.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association Vermont Chapter, 75 Talcott Road, Suite 40, Williston, VT 05495.