JEANNETTE MAYER MIDDLEBURY Jeanette Mayer, 81, passed away on Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury. She and her twin sister Jeanne were born on October 28, 1932 in Shoreham, Vermont. They were the seventh and eighth of ten children borne to Edmond and Elie-Anna Mayer. Except for a few short trips out of state she spent all of her life in the Middlebury area where she enjoyed the company of her family. She worked for many years at the Van Raalte sewing factory in Middlebury and in her later years at Calvis ice cream shop and at the Bakery Lane Bakery (Now Middlebury Bagel & Deli). In retirement she and her twin sister, Jeanne, cared for and doted upon many children in their home including nieces, nephews and grandnieces and grandnephews. She had a fondness for the Game Show Network, listening to the Middlebury police scanner and curling up with Fluffy the cat. She is survived by her four sisters Peggy St. George, Pauline Welch, Lucille Smith and Jeanne Ciemniewski, three of her brothers Paul, Rael and Raymond Mayer, and was predeceased by two of her brothers Fernand and Rene Mayer. A longtime parishioner at St. Marys Church of the Assumption, a service will be held there at 11am on April 25, 2014.