In Memory Of
Janet Rogers Wilkinson
1932
2014
Janet Rogers Wilkinson
January 6, 1932 — February 27, 2014
Janet Rogers Wilkinson, 82, a long-time resident of Tuxedo died on February 27, 2014 at the Episcopal Church Home in Rochester, NY after a long illness.
She was born in Sturgis, SD of Myrtle Lathrop and Walter Rogers, grew up in the Black Hills region of South Dakota, and married her high school sweetheart, John Wilkinson, upon graduating from high school there. She mothered their children and worked to help support the family during the four years that he attended the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Upon his graduating they moved to Minneapolis for five years where she maintained their home while he was employed as an electronics engineer in the early days of the computer industry and attended law school there, then moved east, first to Allendale, NJ for two years and finally settled in the Sterling Forest section of Tuxedo where they remained for 50 years while raising seven children and went into retirement.
She started college when their youngest entered kindergarten, obtained a masters in elementary education specializing in reading pathology from SUNY New Paltz in 1972, taught at the Pine Tree School in the Monroe-Woodbury Centralized School district for 31 years, and retired in 2003. Her interests included music, at which she played the trumpet and piano early in life, sang in choruses including Sweet Adelines, and enjoyed traditional jazz, the culinary arts, in which she excelled in Midwestern-style farm cooking but enjoyed her husband's coarse seafood concoctions, boxer dogs, of which they had seven through their marriage including a top-of-the-line brood bitch, travel and camping with family, and was a fan of the Muppets and Prairie Home Companion. She was out-going, warm hearted and bright, with a keen sense of humor, and will be greatly missed.
Survivors include her husband John Wilkinson, currently living in Rochester; her son Roger Wilkinson and Nannette Elizabeth of Harriman; daughter Jean Wilkinson and Gerry Ewing of Portland, OR; son Tom Wilkinson and Mary Daly of Corning, NY; daughter Sandra and Lorne Hayhurst of Toms River, NJ; daughter Susan and James Lacure of Rochester, NY; daughter Ann and Scot Houska of Grand Junction, CO, sixteen grandchildren and three great grandchildren. The oldest son, Ronald, passed away in 2008.
A memorial service will be held at Arrow Park, Orange Turnpike, Monroe, on March 7, at 6:00. Gifts in her memory can be given to Brain & Behavior Research Foundation: Schizophrenia, 90 Park Ave, 16th Floor, NY, NY 10016 (800) 829-8289
She was born in Sturgis, SD of Myrtle Lathrop and Walter Rogers, grew up in the Black Hills region of South Dakota, and married her high school sweetheart, John Wilkinson, upon graduating from high school there. She mothered their children and worked to help support the family during the four years that he attended the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Upon his graduating they moved to Minneapolis for five years where she maintained their home while he was employed as an electronics engineer in the early days of the computer industry and attended law school there, then moved east, first to Allendale, NJ for two years and finally settled in the Sterling Forest section of Tuxedo where they remained for 50 years while raising seven children and went into retirement.
She started college when their youngest entered kindergarten, obtained a masters in elementary education specializing in reading pathology from SUNY New Paltz in 1972, taught at the Pine Tree School in the Monroe-Woodbury Centralized School district for 31 years, and retired in 2003. Her interests included music, at which she played the trumpet and piano early in life, sang in choruses including Sweet Adelines, and enjoyed traditional jazz, the culinary arts, in which she excelled in Midwestern-style farm cooking but enjoyed her husband's coarse seafood concoctions, boxer dogs, of which they had seven through their marriage including a top-of-the-line brood bitch, travel and camping with family, and was a fan of the Muppets and Prairie Home Companion. She was out-going, warm hearted and bright, with a keen sense of humor, and will be greatly missed.
Survivors include her husband John Wilkinson, currently living in Rochester; her son Roger Wilkinson and Nannette Elizabeth of Harriman; daughter Jean Wilkinson and Gerry Ewing of Portland, OR; son Tom Wilkinson and Mary Daly of Corning, NY; daughter Sandra and Lorne Hayhurst of Toms River, NJ; daughter Susan and James Lacure of Rochester, NY; daughter Ann and Scot Houska of Grand Junction, CO, sixteen grandchildren and three great grandchildren. The oldest son, Ronald, passed away in 2008.
A memorial service will be held at Arrow Park, Orange Turnpike, Monroe, on March 7, at 6:00. Gifts in her memory can be given to Brain & Behavior Research Foundation: Schizophrenia, 90 Park Ave, 16th Floor, NY, NY 10016 (800) 829-8289
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