Frances Dora Bishop Janzen

© Enid News and Eagle

11-2008

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

© Glenn

The funeral for Frances Dora Bishop Janzen, 92, of Fairview, will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008, at Fairview Mennonite Brethren Church. The Revs. Paul Bartel and Brad Penner will officiate. Burial will be in South Mennonite Brethren Cemetery. Arrangements are by Nichols Funeral Home, Fairview. Family visitation will be 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.

She was born Nov. 13, 1916, in Grand Island, Neb., to Edward J. and Minerva Anspach Bishop and died Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, in Wichita, Kan. She moved with her parents to Omaha, Neb., at an early age where she attended Walnut Hill Grade School and graduated from Central High School in 1934. She then worked as a comptometer operator in the accounting departments of Sears and Safeway. She also taught at the Felt and Tarrant Comptometer School and worked at the headquarters of Union Pacific Railroad. As a side job, she sang live commercial jingles for a local radio station. She was a member of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. She also was active in the choir at Omaha Gospel Tabernacle, the radio ministry, and the Sunday school department.

She married Wesley Eugene "Gene" Janzen Sept. 10, 1955. They lived in Omaha for two years. In 1957, they moved to the family farm near Fairview. She became a member of Fairview Mennonite Brethren Church and helped in the extension work at Longdale, taught and directed the young teen department and sang in the ladies' chorus and choir, worked in Pioneer Girls, was a Pink Lady at the Fellowship home for five years, taught a women's class and helped at the Longdale Community Church from 1970 to 1985. She taught music classes at Progressive, Isabella and Longdale schools as well as piano lessons at her home. She was a bookkeeper at Progressive School from 1968 to 1982. She also was a lifetime member of the Gideon ministry and was president of the local Gideon Auxiliary for three years, later becoming a Zone leader for three years.

Surviving are two daughters, Ellen Lasseter of Manvel, Texas, and Bonnie Schroeder of Goddard, Kan.; one brother, Jack Bishop of Omaha; and six grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Wesley.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home, P.O. Box 332, Fairview, OK 73737 to Gideon's International.

Condolences may be made online at http://www.nicholsfh.com/.

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