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Eudora Kean Teacher Jan Dunn Dies at 63

Nov. 10, 2006 – Jeanette Rita Roasi Herrmann Dunn, 63, died at her home in Estate Lerkenlund Tuesday evening. Dunn, known to all as Jan, was born in New York City to the late Claudio and Rina Roasi. She was predeceased by her first husband, Raymond Jacob Herrmann, affectionately known as "Charlie Brown", and her second husband, Thomas Joseph Dunn III, both of St. Thomas.
Dunn graduated from the College of Notre Dame in Baltimore, Md. and later worked on Wall Street as an actuary for the firm of Johnson and Higgins.
She made St. Thomas her home in 1968 and established the well-known bar and restaurant, Fat City, with her husband, Ray Herrmman, and other local investors. Subsequently, she was the owner of the award winning restaurant The Green Parrott located at the Magens Point Resort. She later obtained her teaching credentials at the University of the Virgin Islands and became a teacher at Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic School.
At the time of her death, Dunn was a math teacher at Ivanna Eudora Kean High School where she enjoyed working with her students over the past ten years.
Dunn had a lifelong passion for art and was known for her oil paintings and island scenes in a style reminiscent of 19th and 20th Century American Impressionists. She studied on St. Thomas with Tom St. Vincent and won blue ribbons at several Caribbean Colour shows. She exhibited at both Fort Christian and the Pissaro Gallery on St. Thomas.
Jan Dunn is survived by her sisters, Adrienne and Leah Anne Roasi of New York, N.Y. and many friends.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Jan's memory to the St. Thomas Humane Society, Post Office Box 8150, St. Thomas, VI 00801. A memorial service at Morning Star Beach will be held in December on a date to be determined. Her husband Tom's memorial service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, at the St. Thomas Reformed Church. Funeral arrangements are by Davis Funeral Home, 774-1464.

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