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FRANCIS W. JENNESS

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20050304
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Francis Ward Jenness, a well-known jingle writer and a distant relative of author Stephen Crane, died Feb. 24 in a nursing home in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. He was 94. He wrote jingles for Tatham-Laird & Kudner, now Euro RSCG Worldwide, from 1946 to 1956. He worked with teams that created jingles for Ovaltine and the clothing store Robert Hall. Mr. Jenness graduated from Harvard University in 1933 and attended Harvard Law School. He served in the Navy during World War II. Mr. Jenness had many passions, from sailing on Casco Bay to doing impressions of Katharine Hepburn and W.C. Fields. He was a ...

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