JEANNETTE “TEETER” GROSVENOR Age 95, died peacefully surrounded by loving family at Blossom Hill Care Center, Huntsburg Twp., on November 18, 2019. Born on Ground Hogs Day in 1924 at Sperry Hospital, Tilden Avenue in Chardon, she was raised on a farm on Claridon Troy Road, Claridon Twp. Her uncle, Ralph Sampson, served in France during World War I and learned a few French words. One of these was “Petite” which means small. Even though she weighed 8 1/2 lbs, she was called Petite. This very shortly turned into “Teeter”.

Elementary school was ¾ mile away and she attended grades 1 through 8, skipping grade 6. Freshman and Sophomore years were spent in Huntsburg, Junior and senior years in Burton, graduating in 1940.

Various jobs filled in the time until enlisting in the U.S. Coast Guard (SPARS) in February 1944. Boot camp was in West Palm Beach, FL, where she was assigned to Ellis Island in a Marine Hospital and then on to Washington, DC, being discharged in 1945.

The G.I. Bill paid for college at Oklahoma AM (now Oklahoma State) at Stillwater, receiving a degree in Bacteriology and a minor in Psychology. Neither had much to do with elementary education. The principal at East Claridon Elementary needed a teacher to finish the 1951-1952 school year and Teeter was hired. She spent four years at East Claridon, two years at Park Elementary in Chardon, then took a hiatus until November 1966, as a self-employed carpenter, specializing in kitchens. In November, she was hired at Hambden Elementary until her retirement, July 1981.

Genealogy and History became a passion in September 1969 when Teeter embarked on an ancestor search. This took her coast to coast and resulted in books of ancestors. In 1976, as part of the country’s bicentennial, she “read” the cemeteries in Claridon and Huntsburg townships. With the help of many volunteers, she read the 82 burial places in Geauga County and published A Monumental Work Inscriptions and Interments in Geauga County, Ohio, through 1983. Thanks to the work of many volunteers, these have all been put online. Teeter was also credited with acquiring the names of all the Geauga County Veterans on the Veteran’s Memorial.

Teeter served as the Genealogy Specialist at the Chardon Library and designed along with Anderson Allyn, the Anderson Allyn Room for Genealogical Research. She was awarded the Library Foundation for Lifetime Achievement as an Author, Genealogist and Historian. She received a plaque that read “Jeannette “Teeter” Grosvenor, Geauga’s Genealogist”.

Most recently, with the help of many volunteers, she helped organize and recreate the 1890 census for Geauga County, Township by Township, as it had been destroyed by fire in one of the Federal Buildings.

Teeter was a patron supporter of the Red Tulip Project of Geauga County and cut the ribbon for its opening, May 19, 2019.

Teeter became energized to see the Maple Museum come to life. She donated family artifacts from the sugaring operation and wrote family remembrances of sugaring in the Grosvenor Woods. Sugaring has always been her passion.

She is survived by her sister, Janice Grosvenor Stanek and brother, Ralph (Janet) Grosvenor, nieces Nancy Stevenson, Sherri and Donna Stanek, nephews Dennis (Dianne) Kellogg, Harold Kellogg and Clay (Terry) Stanek, and a loving collection of grand and great grand nieces and nephews. Teeter also leaves her lifelong friends Andrea and Dan Pollock, Mary Lou Morgan and Donna Vaccariello.

Family will receive friends on Thursday, December 5, 2019 at the First Congregational Church of Claridon, 13942 Mayfield Road, Huntsburg Twp. 44046, from 10:30 until 11:00, followed by the service at 11:00 AM. Private family burial will be held.

Donations are suggested to the church.