Greta Arlene Jewett

Age 85
Lived a Life Filled with Love and Luck

Greta was born Thursday, Jan. 2, 1936 and died June 18, 2021. Greta lived all of her life in Kennett Square, PA with her family of grandparents, her mom, aunts, uncles and cousins. She attended Kennett Square High School where she graduated in 1954. Greta always was proud of that accomplishment.

Upon graduating she got a job at NVF in Kennett and worked along side her Aunt Hazel and Cousin Charles until her retirement in 1991 after 35 years.

While at NVF she had a devastating accident written up in the local papers on Jan. 09, 1956 when a two foot steel rod broke off her machine and pierced her head 8 1/2 inches into her skull downward into her neck. She never lost consciousness, never complained and walked to an employees car with her Aunt and they drove to Chester County Hospital fast over icy roads. In West Chester the car broke down and they called the police and she had to walk to their car to complete the trip. The surgeons operated and said less than a quarter inch either way and she would have died. Miraculously she survived with no permanent injuries, no blindness or disfigurement. Greta had just turned 20!

Even with the accident Greta always considered herself lucky (by surviving) and in 1983 she hit the PA Instant Lottery for $1,000.00 a month for life and has been receiving payments for 38 years. After moving nearer to the Kennett Square Senior Center with her Cousin Charles in 2000, she attended Friday night bingo and continued her winning ways. She loved the Senior Center and attended almost every day it was open morning, noon and evening along with many sponsored day trips. And every chance she got she went to Atlantic City or Delaware Park and always won frequently at slots!

She finally had to enter Pocopson on April 17, 2015 and she tried to adapt by going on day trips to Longwood Gardens and nearby Chester County as well as her frequent bingo playing times and she discovered she had a talent for poker and though she might have been the only woman playing, she enjoyed beating the men and receiving her Award Certificates she proudly displayed. She did enjoy going to Lenape Park and nearby Nixon Park where she won many medals for various sport activities and had dozens hanging in her room. She even got to attend two Kennett class reunions, the last on July 14, 2018 at Jenner’s Pond. She went to several Christmas and New Year’s Eve parties at Mendenhall and The Farm to see her old Senior Center friends. She never completely accepted her final place, where her mother had spent many years before she died, but she did the best she could under the circumstances she found herself in her later years. Greta was always single and unique in her own way.

Greta is truly the last of the Malin family. She was predeceased by her grandparents, Arthur and Annie Malin; her mother, Ethel Malin Jewett; her aunts, Ruth, Hazel and Blanche, all Malins; and her cousins, Janet Malin and Charles Malin, with whom she lived almost her entire life together in Kennett Square.

She is survived by only two (non-Kennett) cousins, Roy (Sam) Thompson and Doug Thompson. A cousin Ronnie chose to retire to Hawaii many years ago and she always asked about him but never heard anything.

The funeral will be held on Saturday, June 26, 2021 at Kuzo Funeral Home, 250 West State St., Kennett Square, PA 19348. Viewing will be from 10:00AM to 11:00 AM and burial will be at New Garden Friends Cemetery, Newark Rd, New Garden Township, PA where she will be united with all of her Malin Family.

Online condolences may be made by visiting www.kuzoandfoulkfh.com.

Services

Visitation
June 26, 2021 10:00AM to 11:00AM
Kuzo Funeral Home
250 W. State Street
Kennett Square, PA 19348

Graveside Service and Interment
June 26, 2021 Following Visitation
New Garden Friends Cemetery
875 Newark Road
Toughkenamon, PA 19374

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