Janice Kay Anderson (“Jan”), age 74, passed away peacefully March 14, 2022. Jan was born and raised in Ottawa, Illinois. She graduated from Marquette High School and shortly after married her high school sweetheart Richard (“Rich”), with whom she would celebrate 55 years of marriage in April. In 1988, they moved to Hayward, Wisconsin where they owned/operated a corner store, followed by a six-room motel. They retired a few years ago and have been living their best life visiting family and friends, going fishing, and spending the winters in Texas with family.
Jan loved sweets (especially chocolate – Halloween was her favorite time of year), playing cards (family Euchre games were quite rowdy), talking on the phone for hours with her sister, playing nickel slots at the casino, going to her exercise classes, spending time with her grandchildren, cooking, and cleaning (we’re still not sure why she liked to do that). She was a life-long fighter who survived a hysterectomy, melanoma surgery, breast cancer surgery, a rare form of muscular dystrophy, a leg amputation due to vascular blockage, and vascular dementia. Last summer she began having symptoms from a rare and aggressive form of leukemia that ultimately won the battle. She had a big heart and was loved by many.
She is preceded in death by her parents Ervin and Anna Fullerton (Ottawa, Illinois). She is survived by her husband Richard Anderson (Hayward, Wisconsin), daughter Tammy Hartmann and her husband Gary (Houston, Texas), first-cousin/daughter Adine Hartmann and her husband Michael (Chicago, Illinois), adult grandchildren Erin and Gabe Hartmann (Houston, Texas) and Michael and Ashley Hartmann (Chicago, Illinois), sister and best friend Joyce Roalson and her husband Larry (Ottawa, Illinois), brother Jerry Fullerton and his wife Jan (Roseburg, Oregon), and brother Ervin Jr. Fullerton and his wife Rita (Ottawa, Illinois).
She was laid to rest in Oakwood Memorial Park, in the Garden of the Last Supper.
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