Norway – Jeannette Sylvester Knight, 86, of Waterford, died Tuesday, Oct. 14, at Stephens Memorial Hospital.

She was born in Roxbury, on Nov. 2, 1921, the daughter of Frances Downs and Aubrey Sylvester. The granddaughter of T. Lincoln Downs, who brought her up after the death of her mother when she was one-year old.

In 1939, she married Robley Chase, together they had one daughter. In 1955, she married Charles Knight, the love of her life, and they spent 46 years together. She and Charlie spent most of their life in the Locke Mills area until 1998, when they moved to Waterford to be with her daughter and grandchildren. She was a homemaker most of her life.

She is survived by her daughter, Marianne Gammon and her husband Leslie; grandchildren, Bruce Campbell and his companion Chris Ryan, Dianne Slicer and her husband Shane and Darlene McDougal and her husband Joel; stepgrandchildren, Joan McDaniel and her companion Charles, Patti Toothaker and her husband David and Linda Lenberg and her fiancé Peter; great-grandchildren, Christopher Henderson, Mark Henderson, Brandon and Katie Campbell, Blake, Cameron and Allison Slicer; many stepgreat-grandchildren; nieces and nephews; and a very special niece, Theresa Bouchard, who for years has written to her every week.

She was predeceased by her husband, Charles Knight; a brother, Walter Sylvester; and a sister, Anna Hafer.