A Celebration of Life for Jean Allen Kemble (1925 - 2022) will be held Sunday, August 28, at 2 PM at the Kemble Family residence at 320 Macks Mountain Road in Peacham. The Kemble family would like to extend an open invitation to any members of the community who might wish to attend.

Jean passed away on January 30, 2022, in New York City, at the age of 96. While a committed New Yorker, Jean also harbored deep affection for the state of Vermont, and specifically for the village of Peacham, where her family purchased a summer house in 1931, when she was a young girl. She returned to spend summers in Peacham for the rest of her life. After her father's death in 1983, Jean maintained the house as a summer retreat and family gathering place. Although only a seasonal resident, she cared deeply about the village community, and many of the happiest days of her life were spent in Peacham.

Jean grew up in Cambridge, MA, as the second child of Edwin Crawford Kemble, a professor of physics at Harvard, and Harriet Tindle Kemble. She never married and had no children of her own, but she was a beloved aunt to five nephews and nieces, the children of her older brother Robert Kemble, who died in 2014.

Jean attended the Putney School, a private boarding school in Vermont, and earned her BA at Smith College in 1947. She earned an MA degree in political science at Mt. Holyoke in 1950, and a clinical social work degree from Columbia in New York in 1962. She studied psychoanalysis at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health in New York and maintained a private practice of psychoanalysis unto 2011. She taught at both the Postgraduate Center and at Smith College's summer sessions for many years.

For more information, contact Dave Kemble 808-497-9369 dbkemble@gmail.com

No flower or gifts, please. Donations can be made to the Peacham Historical Association.