Janet Christine May, a child of God, went home to her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Thursday evening, April 5, 2012 at 10:53 p.m. in the Indiana University Health–Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana. She was 61 years old and a resident of Marion, Indiana.
Janet was born in Plymouth, Indiana on July 8, 1950. Her father was Harold E. May. Her mother, who survives, is Pauline (Rains) Phillippe of Marion, Indiana.
Janet was a 1970 graduate of Myers Park High School in Charlotte, North Carolina where she excelled in Home Economics. She was a homemaker, caring for others, and dearly enjoyed crafting with ceramics, sewing and cooking.
She and her mother are members of the Brookhaven Wesleyan Church in Marion.
Janet is also survived by one brother, David L. (Diana) May of Marion, and two sisters; Cynthia L. (May) and her husband Mike Laughrun of Massanutten, Virginia, and Lorann Ruth (May) and her husband Donald Jennings of Tallahassee, Florida, along with several nieces and nephews. Joy May, her sister-in-love, of Capon Bridge, West Virginia and lifelong friend, Edna Keyser Wagoner of Plymouth also survive.
Her extended family includes members of the Maxine and Neil McLean Family of Plymouth and the Marilyn Kissinger Family of Walkerton, and the Ruth Rains Nelson Family of Oceanside, California and Tucson, Arizona.
She was preceded in death by an older sister, infant Judy May. Family and friends are invited to a graveside service for Janet to be held in the New Oakhill Cemetery Chapel on Tuesday, April 10, at 2:00 p.m. Burial will follow in the Oakhill Cemetery, Plymouth. Pastor Jackie Michaelson of Fairmount Friends Church will officiate.
Memorial gifts may be given to World Gospel Mission, Richard Adkins Special Africa Project 01090-005, P. O. Box 948, Marion, Indiana.