Janice Marie Duffy
28 Summit Ave.
" . . . We have a chance to find the sunshine . . . let's keep on looking for the light" . . . "Dynamite" . . . Remembers being college material . . . Lancelot and Galahad . . . S.J.C. and the sailors at the Science Museum . . . Chemistry with Mr. Reilly and Modern History with Mr. Frank.

Obituary

DUFFY, Janice Marie Janice Marie Duffy passed away at home on December 22, 2022, at the age of 64. She died as she lived - enjoying a cup of coffee and winning at the Wordle. Janice grew up in Melrose with her late mother and father, Janice and George, and her beloved brothers and sisters.

She excelled in school, though she held a lifelong grudge against geometry, the only flavor of mathematics to ever give her any trouble. Janice graduated with a bachelor's from Brandeis University, and a JD from Boston College Law School. During her time at BC, she contributed to the Boston College Law Review journal. She worked as an attorney for many years at Bingham, Dana & Gould, where she excelled handling the senior debt aspect of many large and complex leveraged buyouts of notable companies across a range of industries, representing longtime client, The First National Bank of Boston. She next served as Assistant General Counsel of State Street Bank in its securities lending/custodial area. She also spent time working in retail and food service, during which she became a favorite of her coworkers due to her generosity and her absolute refusal to take any crap from rude customers.

Janice loved her children and accepted each of them as they were. She allowed them to pillage her belongings for middling in-house theatrical productions. She loved Christmas. Every Christmas Eve, she gifted her kids a new set of cozy pajamas. A very stylish person herself, her choices were sometimes bewildering but always cherished. She was a devoted mom of many beloved pets, including Puff, Tigger, Nikki, Sasha, and Benji, who filled her days with antics and laughter. She loved The X-Files, Bruce Springsteen, Bernie Taupin, Disney, Cumberland Farms coffee, Anne Rice, Jeff Goldblum, social justice causes, AM radio at the lowest volume, impressionist painters, The Beatles, finding sand dollars on the shore, and dunking on foolish people on Facebook. She read every book she could get her hands on often on the porch of the Duffy house at Hampton Beach and spent long hours working on jigsaw puzzles and cross-stitch patterns. She enjoyed seeing films and theater performances with her family and never pulled any punches in her critiques - describing one local production, she was heard to say, "I've seen this one before. I thought it was supposed to be funny." Her wit and wry sense of humor brightened the days of her friends and family. She could transform the mundane, like Benji wandering out of the yard, into an odyssey. She was a loving woman and a crucial ally in all things. She was the beating heart of our family and her loss will impact us for years to come in ways we do not yet understand. She was all at once the best mother a cat, dog, or human could ever hope to know. She is survived by her children, Lindsay, Amelia, Lucas, and Elena, as well as her sisters, Judith and Barbara, her brothers, William and Kevin, her beloved nieces, nephews, grandnieces and nephews, her husband, Steve Eimert, and her current crop of favorite little furry buddies, Iggy, Izzy, Kitten, Shenanigans, Reggie, Sonny & Cher (even if she never fully approved of the latter two names). We'll miss her forever.

Family & friends cordially invited to a public viewing from 2-5 pm on Monday, January 2, 2023 at the Campbell Funeral Home, 525 Cabot St., Beverly. Interment of her ashes will be in the spring, when a service celebrating her life may be held please check her Facebook memorial page for details. We ask that if anyone is so inclined, they donate funds to Fair Fight or Northeast Animal Shelter in her memory. Information, directions, condolences at www.campbellfuneral.com