Janet LaVonne Thias 1933-2009
DAVIS, SVEBAKKEN, THIAS, GANSEN, NORMANN
Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 9/26/2009 at 20:21:54
Janet LaVonne Thias
Janet L. Thias, 76, of rural Lansing died Saturday, September 12, 2009 at Gundersen Lutheran Hospital in LaCrosse, WI. Funeral services will be held Thursday, September 17 at 11 a.m. at Rossville Presbyterian Church in Rossville, with Pastor Tom Buresh officiating. Burial will be at Maple Hill “Bigfoot” Cemetery, rural Rossville.
Friends may call from 4-8 p.m. Wednesday, September 16 at Martin Funeral Home in Waukon, and for one hour before the service at the church Thursday.
Janet LaVonne Thias was born August 10, 1933 in Waterville, the daughter of Clarence Oscar and Doris Loretta (Davis) Svebakken. She was baptized and confirmed at Old West Paint Creek Lutheran Church. Janet graduated from Waterville High School in 1951, where she played basketball and made two trips to the state tournament with her team. Following school, she moved to Waterloo, where she worked as a transcriptionist at Allen Memorial Hospital.
She returned to northeast Iowa, where September 19, 1953 she married Eugene Wesley Thias at the Old West Paint Creek Church. Janet and Gene farmed together for many years in the “Bigfoot” area near Rossville. During this time she also spent 35 years working for Capco Products. The past eight winters, Janet and Gene have enjoyed spending time in Alamo, TX, where they regularly connected with many of their local friends.
Janet loved the farming life and spending time outdoors. She enjoyed hunting mushrooms and deer, Sunday outings on the Mississippi River with family and friends, and had a passion for fishing. She was an accomplished seamstress and did many crocheting and quilting projects. Following the Iowa Hawkeye basketball team and playing cards were other favorite pastimes. Janet was a member of the Bigfoot Study Club, and since her marriage, Rossville Presbyterian Church.
Survivors include her husband Gene of rural Lansing; three children, Wendy (Leo) Gansen, Jr. of Epworth, and Deanne Normann and Bill (Cindi) Thias, both of Clermont; a special nephew, Danny (Patty) Beisker of Leola, PA; 13 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and a brother, Roger (Llonamae) Svebakken of Spring Valley, MN. She was preceded in death by her parents; a grandson, Justin Thias; and a son-in-law, David Miller.
Casketbearers are Damien and Terry Miller, Eric and Andrea Gansen, Jimmy, Mike, Heather, Kristina and Daniell Normann, and Morgan Thias.
A Waukon, Iowa newspaper, THE STANDARD, September 16, 2009.
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