Gone Too Soon: A Community Gathers to Celebrate the Life of ‘Miss Jenny’
By Paul Sylvain
On Aug. 3, scores of family members, friends, and even strangers, packed the Rose M. Gaffney gymnasium in record numbers for a fundraiser to help Jennifer Lee (Green) Fenney in her courageous battle against cancer. Just a short 85 days later — on Oct. 27 — many of those same people filled the Bay Ridge school gym in Cutler to celebrate the life of a much-loved woman, taken much too soon on Oct. 23. She was 49.