OBITUARY
Jennifer Davis Clair was born on March 22, 1961 in Wellesley MA, to Richard Clair and Claire (Acly) Clair. She grew up in Wellesley MA, and ran track and played in the marching band at Wellesley High School. She was a scholarship student at the University of Pennsylvania in nursing. After working as a nurse in the Boston area, she completed her M.S. degree in nursing in the field of Women’s Ambulatory Health at Boston College, and shifted to the infertility field. She worked as a nurse practitioner in the field of infertility treatment in both the Boston and Atlanta areas for over three decades. She embraced this field because helping couples achieve their dreams of parenthood was the greatest joy of Jennifer’s life.
Jennifer was an avid tennis player who played on so many teams that her husband Pete referred to himself as a tennis widower. He used this as an excuse to ride his motorcycle to her away matches and sit in the stands cheering her on. Unfortunately, this led to significant concern by the away team regarding motorcycle gangs in the gallery. She was a talented runner who still holds the family record for the best 10K road race time, and proved in an overnight trail relay that she could still run at night, in the forest, in the rain and in four inches of mud.
Jennifer had a profound love of animals and had cats and dogs as pets for her entire life. In her later years she fostered and helped people adopt dogs from Mutt Maddness, a no-kill dog shelter in the Atlanta area. See CHARITIES for information on donating to Mutt Maddness.
Jennifer’s academic success and dedication to medicine inspired her daughter Miranda’s own pursuit of science and medicine as a biomedical engineer. Her dedication to women’s health and the helping diverse communities realize the dream of parenthood continues to energize Miranda to use her engineering skills help people. Jennifer inspired her son Dylan to think more rationally and not get so worked up about things over which he has little control, and taught him the value of education and physical fitness.
In 2019, Jennifer was diagnosed with fronto temporal demetia (FTD). Watching Jennifer’s memory and cognitive function slowly disappear over the last seven years was acutely painful for her family and friends to watch until it finally claimed her life. Given her lifetime dedication to medicine, she embraced the value of medical research. As such, see the CHARITIES page on how to donate to support research and advocacy for FTD.
Jennifer is survived by her children Miranda Claire Ludovice, Dylan Wright Ludovice, and her husband Pete Ludovice. She is also survived by her older sister Cindi (Clair) Kaplan, who has previously seen the passing of their parents and their younger brother Stephen Whitney Clair, who died at the age of 23 in a tragic bicycle accident.
Memorial services will be held in the Atlanta Georgia area on Thursday August 7th, and in the Wellesley, Massachusetts area on Saturday August 9th. See SERVICES for detailed information.