| 3.20.2003
Jude Henault, 37; a source of inspiration
Jude Henault sensed when friends were feeling down or struggling with
a problem, and to lighten their load she would often send them funny or
inspiring e-mails.
Friends described the mother of three, who looked younger than her 37
years, as sensitive and spiritual.
"If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it," she
wrote to Dorothy Everett in the last e-mail her friend received from her.
"I felt she was my friend, not my supervisor," Everett said
as she described the woman she worked with at Foxwoods Resort Casino for
the last several years.
"You felt the first time she walked into the room, you could talk
to her. She never stood on ceremony. And she had the prettiest blue eyes."
"You could just ask her anything, and she'd do it for you,"
said coworker Ellen Scott. "You could count on her lifting up your
spirits."
Jude was a dedicated employee who sometimes brought her two younger children,
Rachel, 12, and Andrew, 10, to the income audit department when she stopped
by on her days off to do even more work.
Jude also worked in the general cashier and coin department for several
years before joining the income audit office as an accountant about two
years ago.
"Some people are aggressive when they start a job, then they level
off," said coworker Fred Barning. "She never leveled off. She
was dedicated to getting it right."
Photographs of her three children and examples of their artwork adorned
her office.
Jude felt proud when she helped pay for her oldest daughter's wedding
last fall, when Angela, 19, married Michael Boggs, of New London, Conn.
She loved to cook seafood and bake homemade bread in the Lisbon, Conn.,
home she shared with her boyfriend, Samuel
A. Miceli Jr., and her two youngest children.
They lived near a pond, and Jude enjoyed the wildlife there, particularly
a swan she and her family helped nurse when it was injured.
Jude and Sam liked live music. They won tickets to the Great White show
at The Station that Thursday night from a New London radio station.
Both died in the blaze.
-- Jennifer D. Jordan
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