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San Eugenio Church Pueblo Canario Playa Las Americas SERVICES
The first church to be used by Anglican
English speaking congregations in the south in Tenerife South in 1985/86.
The Chaplaincy was officially recognised by the Spanish Authorities in
1991. Since that time there has been uninterrupted Anglican worship in
this church, which is a truly ecumenical church, used also by the Roman
Catholics and the German Lutherans.
In 1995, after illness of both herself and her second husband, Kelly, they came to Tenerife to 'retire'. They were told by friends in the UK "Tenerife is only an island. You will see it all in a week and be bored", Jean and Kelly enjoy their life here. They are involved with the Swallows, the Royal British Legion, the Lions, the Masons and the Fishing Club. They have five children and eleven grandchildren between them. Jean was Treasurer for the Chaplaincy from 1998 to 2002, then took a year off to write a book (which is still in its infancy!!). She was re-elected to the council in 2003. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Jean
was born in 1948 in Burnham on Sea, Somerset. Following a move to
Radstock, near Bath, she attended Midsomer Norton Grammar School and
then went to college in Bristol to study for an Institute of Management
diploma. After marriage to Ralph, in 1969, she worked for a jeweller and
a contract cleaner, as well as helping her husband run his Limousine and
Taxi company and raising their daughter Helen. She then spent eighteen
years working for a national electrical distribution company, where she
stayed until 1995, continuing to run the family business after Ralph's
death in 1988. 
