Janna E. (Bellows) Paster, 30, of Foxboro, formerly of Leicester, died October 23, 2007 at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston. She was the beloved wife of Mark Paster.
Born in Worcester, the daughter of Jerelyn (Johnson) Bellows of Millbury, MA and Ed Norman Bellows of Granger, IN, she grew up in Leicester and was currently living in Foxboro.
Janna was a 1995 graduate of Notre Dame Academy and received her Undergraduate in Elementary Education from Providence College in 1999 and her Masters in Education & Administration from Providence College in 2002. Janna had been a 5th grade school teacher for Franklin Public Schools for the past 8 years.
In addition to her husband and parents, she was the sister of Ed Norman Bellows II of Leicester, the daughter in law of Richard D. and Nancy Paster of Westwood and the grand daughter of Winifred E. Bellows of Buckland, MA.
Her funeral will take place from the George F. Doherty & Sons Wilson-Cannon Funeral Home, 456 High St., Dedham, on Saturday at 9:00 AM with a funeral mass in St. Mary’s Church, Dedham, at 10:00 AM. Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend. Interment will be in New Westwood Cemetery. Visiting hours will be held on Friday from 4-8 PM at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made in Janna’s memory to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Stem Cell Transplantation Research, C/O Rob Soifter, 44 Binney St., Boston, MA 02115.