1940
Janice
2014
Janice Marie Renfree
June 20, 1940 — September 29, 2014
Passed away peacefully in her home in Roseburg, Oregon, on September 29, 2014, surrounded by loved ones, at age 74.
Jan was born in Grants Pass, Oregon, on June 20, 1940, to Herman Lawrence Tooley and Evelyn Alpine LeClair. After graduating from Shasta High School in a Redding, California, she entered the Air Force, receiving the highest score in the statewide entrance exam. She served in Europe and Asia for nearly ten years in active combat zones and received the Air Force Commendation Medal with One Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster. During the heart of the Cold War she led special operation missions in such far flung locations as Morocco and Burma. In addition, she played on the European, female all-star basketball team.
Jan returned to Sonoma County, California, in 1968 to be close to her parents and siblings. In 1973 she married William Thomas Renfree of Redding, California, and had her only child, Walter Lawrence Renfree, in Santa Rosa, California on October 23, 1974.
Jan enjoyed a long career in hospital administration, working for many years in Spokane, Washington, Fall River Mills and Redding, California, before retiring in Roseburg, Oregon. She had a great love for the outdoors and the adage, "I'd rather be fishing", certainly fit her perfectly.
Jan is survived by her spouse Nancy Peterson of Roseburg, son Walter Renfree of Basel, Switzerland and her second' mother Doris Tooley of Redding California, as well as 5 siblings, Richard Wilde of Yuma, Arizona, Jeannie Sawtell of Sutherlin, Oregon, and Edie Geist, Gerald Horner and Bobby Horner of Redding, California. She was preceded in death by her beloved sister, Phyllis York of Kennewick, Washington.
Memorial Services will be held at Roseburg Memorial Gardens, 1056 NW Hicks St, Roseburg, Oregon, at 11 a.m. on Saturday October 4th. Flowers may be sent directly to the Memorial Gardens.
Jan was born in Grants Pass, Oregon, on June 20, 1940, to Herman Lawrence Tooley and Evelyn Alpine LeClair. After graduating from Shasta High School in a Redding, California, she entered the Air Force, receiving the highest score in the statewide entrance exam. She served in Europe and Asia for nearly ten years in active combat zones and received the Air Force Commendation Medal with One Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster. During the heart of the Cold War she led special operation missions in such far flung locations as Morocco and Burma. In addition, she played on the European, female all-star basketball team.
Jan returned to Sonoma County, California, in 1968 to be close to her parents and siblings. In 1973 she married William Thomas Renfree of Redding, California, and had her only child, Walter Lawrence Renfree, in Santa Rosa, California on October 23, 1974.
Jan enjoyed a long career in hospital administration, working for many years in Spokane, Washington, Fall River Mills and Redding, California, before retiring in Roseburg, Oregon. She had a great love for the outdoors and the adage, "I'd rather be fishing", certainly fit her perfectly.
Jan is survived by her spouse Nancy Peterson of Roseburg, son Walter Renfree of Basel, Switzerland and her second' mother Doris Tooley of Redding California, as well as 5 siblings, Richard Wilde of Yuma, Arizona, Jeannie Sawtell of Sutherlin, Oregon, and Edie Geist, Gerald Horner and Bobby Horner of Redding, California. She was preceded in death by her beloved sister, Phyllis York of Kennewick, Washington.
Memorial Services will be held at Roseburg Memorial Gardens, 1056 NW Hicks St, Roseburg, Oregon, at 11 a.m. on Saturday October 4th. Flowers may be sent directly to the Memorial Gardens.
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