Funeral services for 74-year-old Janice E. Ewing of Windom, Minnesota, will be held Sunday afternoon, February 23, 2014, at 2 p.m., in the chapel of the American Lutheran Church in Windom. The church is located at 906 Prospect Avenue.
Visitation will be at the church from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. the day of the funeral. Funeral arrangements are being handled by LaCanne Family Funeral Service in Windom.
Janice E. Ewing passed away on Wednesday, February 19, 2014, in Windom.
Janice Elaine (Johnson) Ewing was born on December 22, 1939 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, the daughter of Harm and Mary Anne (Henze) Johnson. She was baptized and later confirmed at the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mountain Lake. She attended Mountain Lake Public Schools and graduated with the Class of 1957. After high school, she moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota and then to Los Angeles, California.
On October 10, 1964, Janice was united in marriage to Wayne Odell Ewing at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Mountain Lake. After their marriage, Janice and Wayne made their home in Los Angeles, where Janice was a homemaker. Once Wayne retired, they moved to Tucson, Arizona where they continued to live until Wayne passed away in 2009. In February 2010, Janice moved to Windom to live with her sister, Carol Arndt, before moving into Mikkelsen Manor and eventually the Good Samaritan Society-Sogge Memorial in 2011.
Janice loved God and singing, especially at weddings and in the church choir. At the beginning of her marriage, she loved to travel. Janice had many health problems during the course of the past five years, but never complained. She will be remembered as a kind person and always giving.
Survivors include her mother, Mary Johnson of Windom; daughter, Julie Ann Ewing of Tucson; three step-children, Patty (Paul) Robichaud of Madisonville, Tennessee; Terry (Dan) Constant of California and Dennis Ewing of Florida; three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; five siblings, Ronald Johnson, Verona (Thomas) White of Waxhaw, North Carolina; Alfred (Cindy) Johnsonof Mountain Lake; Carol Arndt of Windom and Leann (Geoff) Johnson of Windom; several nieces and nephews and other relatives.
She was preceded in death by her father, Harm Johnson and husband, Wayne Ewing.