HANOVER – Celina Ann (Couture) Jodrey went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, April 6.

She was born in Rumford to Clement and Ruth (Vickie) Couture on July 27, 1961. She grew up in Hanover and graduated from Rumford High School in 1979. She graduated from the University of Maine at Orono with a Bachelor’s degree in early Childhood Education. While attending UMO she was a majorette.

She owned and operated Bethel Daycare for 15 years. Many children in the Bethel area were nurtured and loved under her care.

For the last two years she was employed in SAD 43 as an Ed Tech. She worked for the past two years to obtain her teaching certificate and was looking forward to getting a full-time position as a teacher. She was enrolled in a Master’s Program at the University of Maine. She devoted her time to a majorette program for High School and Elementary School girls.

She was an avid reader and gardener and a hard worker, often working her day job and working as a waitress on weekends.

She was a loving mother to her two sons, Danny and Austin. They were her greatest pleasure.

She was married to Michael Arlan Jodrey on Aug. 1, 1992, and together they built their dream home on Vernon Street in Bethel.

She had a love of life and an infectious laugh and touched the hearts of everyone who knew her.

Survivors include her mother of Hanover; her husband, Michael of Bethel; her two sons, Danny Koris and Austin Jodrey; one brother and his wife, Spencer and Linda Couture of Rumford Point; two sisters and their husbands, Claudia and Angelo Nardone of Springfield, Va., Adrianne and David Gallant of Rumford; a sister-in-law and her husband, Becky and Ross Swan of Bethel; her loving in-laws, Arlan and Eleanor Jodrey of Bethel; many nieces, nephews, grandnieces and nephews.