Jeanne Loftus Kukulka, 90 A loving and thoughtful wife and mother who instilled a spirit of adventure in her family, intellectual curiosity in her children and a desire to experience the larger world, passed away on August 14, 2013, at Danbury hospital in the company of her son John and daughter Kathryn. Jeanne was born in Hartford, CT, on October 3, 1922, the only child of John L. Loftus, Jr. and Clara (Devine) Loftus who died when Jeanne was five years old. Raised in Enfield by her father and his unmarried sister Mame, she attended St. Joseph School and graduated with honors from Enfield High School in 1940. After graduation, she worked in the insurance industry before enrolling in the St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing in Hartford where she graduated in 1945. During her senior year, she was assigned to the US Army Convalescent Hospital at Camp Edwards Massachusetts as a member of the US Army Cadet Nursing Program where she worked in the psychiatric unit with returning veterans. Following graduation as a Registered Nurse, she worked in Springfield for a psychiatrist for five years during which time she married her long-time beau, Edmond F. Kukulka, in 1948. Upon the birth of her first child she took a ten year leave from her nursing career to raise three children during which time she organized camping vacations that took the family from Montreal’s Expo 68, to Washington, DC, Florida, Chicago and many trips to Cape Cod. Returning to nursing in the mid-1960’s, she worked in various medical situations from industrial nursing at Hamilton Standard, to skilled nursing care at the Parkway Pavilion in Enfield, and finally spending the last 20 years of her career as a nurse at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford where she retired in 1985. She continued her long standing association with the hospital as a member of the St. Francis Hospital Medical Center (SFHMC) Alumni Association and the Retirement Club. In retirement, she and her husband lived in Redding, CT, with their son, Walter and his family for eight years and subsequently returned to Enfield in 1995 where they continued to travel and visit their three children who lived throughout the country. Jeanne was predeceased by her husband Edmond in 2009 and her son Walter in January 2013 and is survived by her son John W. Kukulka and his wife Elizabeth Hanson from Ridgefield, CT, her daughter Kathryn M. Kukulka and her partner William T. Haebler from Laguna Beach, CA, and her four grandchildren – Ian in Boston, Jocelyn and Charmagne in New York City, and Whitney in San Francisco. Calling hours will be held at Browne Memorial Funeral Chapel, 43 Shaker Road on Wednesday, August 21, 2013, between the hours of 9:30 and 11:00 followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at St. Martha’s Roman Catholic Church, 214 Brainard Road, Enfield. The burial will take place immediately following the Mass in St. Patrick’s Kings Street Cemetery.