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Janice E. McNannay

Janice E. McNannay, 81, of Grand Island, died Thursday, November 12, 2009 at Tiffany Square Center.

Service will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Pauls Lutheran Church in Grand Island.  The Reverend Randy Fett will officiate.  Burial of ashes will be in the Parkview Cemetery in Hastings.

There will be no visitation.  All Faiths Funeral Home of Grand Island is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. McNannay was born August 31, 1928, in Glenvil, Nebraska to Dick and Jessie Mensen. 

Survivors are her daughter and son-in-law, Cheryl and John Madison of Lead Hill, Arkansas; two stepsons, Dan Nitzel of Grand Island and John Nitzel of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Other survivors are two step grandchildren, Kari and Jeff Nitzel of Santa Fe.

Janice was united in marriage to Lloyd Jordan on January 24, 1946.  The couple made their home in Hastings where she was employed as a secretary for the Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Company for 17 years. 

She married Jeff Nitzel on November 21, 1973.  Mr. Nitzel died in 1979.  She was employed in the executive offices of J. M. McDonald Company and later for the Hastings Daily Tribune before moving to Grand Island in 1984.  She was employed at the Grand Island Daily Independent until retiring in 1990.

She married James R. McNannay on May 25, 1990 in Grand Island.  Mr. McNannay died in 1992. 

Mrs. McNannay was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church and Mary Circle of the Church.  She was a member of BPO Does Drove #147, the Platt Duetsch Ladies, the Grand Island Saddle Club, and the City James Club.  She was a Reach to Recovery Volunteer for the American Cancer Society and a volunteer at St. Francis Medical Center. She loved to travel and enjoyed dancing.

Memorials are suggested to be made to the American Cancer Society or to St. Pauls Lutheran Church.