Elenore Neese

It is with profound sadness that we announce the August 16, 2022, death in Vero Beach, Florida of our wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, Elenore Neese, at the age of 96.

Elenore was born the fourth of eight children in Kamp-Lintfort, Germany in 1926 shortly before the start of WWII. At 19, she walked to southern Ger­many to enter the American sector after the war to find work. She was lucky enough to find a position there as a cashier at the American Commissary in Garmisch. Several years later, she met her husband of 70 years, Marlin Neese, a first lieutenant in the US Army. Marlin fell in love with Elenore and they would dance the night away at the Post Hotel in Garmisch. They married in 1953 at the US Army chapel in Garmisch and Elenore returned with Marlin to his next assignment at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. During their military career, Elenore would follow Marlin to many exotic ports of call including Hokkaido, Japan and Taipei, Taiwan. While in Taiwan, Elenore worked for the Department of State managing the US Embassy shops located across the island. She was a favorite of the US Embassy crowd and attended events with President Chiang Kai-Shek and his Madame Mei-ling. In 1976, Elenore and Marlin left Taiwan and settled in Melbourne, Fl. There, Elenore co-founded, with her daughter Delores Genow (predeceased), the Attic Corner Antique Shop. They imported and sold antiques from England, France, and the Netherlands and grew the Attic Corner into one of the largest Antique Shops in central Florida. Elenore also volunteered her time at the Tambourine Shop of Vero Beach for almost 10 years. Elenore loved playing hand and foot and eating chocolate with almonds and pickled herring, but above all, she loved her family. We will love and miss her forever.

Elenore is survived by her beloved husband, Marlin Neese, her daughter Dianna and son-in-law John of Vero Beach, her son, Michael Neese of Houston, Texas, her grandchildren, Christina Reed, John Chianis, Patrick, Rebecca, and Laura Neese, and her great grandchildren William and Mat­thew Reed and Amelia Chianis.

In lieu of flowers, we request that her friends donate to the Tambourine Shop of Vero Beach at JICSL, 4455 N. Hwy. A1A, Vero Beach, FL  32963 or https://www.jicsl.org/tambourine-shop/ or to the VNA Hospice, 1110 35th Lane, Vero Beach, FL  32960 or https://www.vnatc.com/hospice/

Arrangements are by Thomas S. Lowther Funeral Home & Crematory, Vero Beach.