Jennifer Fitzgerald Wilson
Jennifer Fitzgerald Wilson passed away on April 4, 2023. She was fifty-one years old and died from complications associated with Parkinson’s. She passed away at her mother’s home in Palm Springs. She was born in Orange, California on October 5th, 1971.
Jennifer graduated from Palm Desert High School in 1990, the first graduating class of students who had attended all four years since the opening of the high school in 1986. She was always interested in fashion and even as a senior in high school she was managing the Benneton store previously located in what was known at that time as The Palm Desert Mall. She went on to manage three BCBG stores and also worked for Trina Turk in Palm Springs. Later on, she got involved in politics and volunteered for Democrats of the Desert as the volunteer coordinator and hosted their awards ceremonies, and then she won our local district election to go as a delegate to the 2012 DNC in Charlotte, North Carolina. During her involvement with The Democratic Party, she met Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, and at a fundraiser Sean Penn.
She had a passion for travel and at the young age of 22 she went to Europe by herself and backpacked throughout Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, and Italy. She, along with her husband Neal, travelled extensively and in 2011 got married in lovely Positano, Italy on the Amalfi coast.
Jennifer was an amazing cook and decorator and she and husband Neal shared a love of dogs.
But the most important aspect of Jennifer was her generous heart. She was a moral, ethical person. She was a beautiful soul both inside and out. She is survived by her husband Neal Wilson, her mother Donna Fitzgerald, her uncle William Fitzgerald, her step-sister Rozalynd McCree and step-father Robert McCree, and her half-sister Erin Viegas Coelho. She had many close friends who miss her terribly.
In closing I wish to include these lyrics from Leonard Cohen’s song Going Home:
Going home without my sorrow
Going home sometime tomorrow
Going home to where it’s better to where it’s better than before
Going home without my burden
Going home behind the curtain
Going home without the costume that I wore
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