Jeanne (Harrison) Hauck was born in Passaic, New Jersey. She grew up in Glen Ellyn, Illinois and graduated from Glenbard High School. She became a wife and mother in Southern California, and moved as a widow to the Puget Sound.

Those are the facts. Here is the reality.

Jeanne was like a Mylar birthday balloon, bright, shiny, and full of…well, not helium, but life. She was someone who took big bites out of life. Who inadvertently insulted someone’s cooking because she always said, “My recipe is better.” And, of course, it was – she was a great cook. She was a warm hostess, whose home was always welcoming, whether in West Covina, Bellevue, or her little apartment here in Poulsbo. She had an artistic approach to everything — her greeting cards may still be on sale at the Port Gamble General Store, Poulsbo’s Central Market, and Town & Country on Bainbridge Island.

If you ever needed to know what was going on in and around Poulsbo, Jeanne would know the best and latest gossip because she knew everybody and kept in touch. She kept friends from all stages and locations of her life, kept them close, kept the details of their lives near to her heart. Jeanne was a good friend to many.

Jeanne never entered a room quietly. Her energy and loud voice turned any gathering into an event. She was full of life and laughter, shiny, bright and floating, like that Mylar birthday balloon.

Jeanne leaves behind two remarkable women: her daughter, Tamara Jean Moore and granddaughter, Cassandra Jean Phillips; and two brothers, Wally Harrison of Poulsbo and Bob Harrison of Eugene. And she leaves too many friends to count, whose lives are now less fun.