Janice (Anderson) Horn

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Biography

Janice was born on July 16, 1935, in Sand Creek Wisconsin, the eldest child of John and Helen Anderson. She grew up on the family dairy farm in Sand Creek, and possibly surprised her parents by her determination to attend college.

She attended Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and then earned a masters degree in Library Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. There she met her future husband, Roger Horn. They were married in 1962, and remained together until his death in 2017.

Janice and Roger moved to Clarion around 1967 to work at the Carlson Library at Clarion State College (later Clarion University of Pennsylvania). At the end of her career, Janice retired as Head of Technical Services.

Janice and Roger both loved to travel, often driving around the U.S. to visit far-flung friends and family. In retirement, they also took trips to Alaska, Norway, and Baja California.

In Clarion, Janice devoted herself to many causes. She was a passionate defender of women’s rights, human rights, and our natural environment. She was active in the Clarion County League of Women Voters from the 1970s, and served on the state board for the League. She served many years with the Stop Abuse for Everyone (SAFE) organization, as a volunteer and as a board member, and she been an active member of the Mill Creek Coalition, which works to restore the water quality of the Mill Creek watershed.

In the past several years, Janice became a passionate proponent of a public park in Clarion Borough. In pursuing this goal, she became involved with the Blueprint Communities and the Bridge Builders Community Foundations. Janice was a founding member of the Clarion County Community Foundation, where she established the “Clarion Borough Community Parks Fund” to help create the park now in progress on Second Avenue.

Janice loved quilting in her free time, and made many amazing and intricate quilts for her home, her friends and family, and for donations. She enjoyed quilting with her friends in the Creekside Quilters group, and for Lutheran World Relief.

She spent many hours birding, both on her own and as a member of the Seneca Rocks Audubon Society.

In recent years, she became interested in gardening with a focus on native plants, and became a Master Gardener with the Penn State Extension.

Janice was predeceased by her husband, Roger Garland Horn, her parents, John and Helen Anderson, her brothers, Harlan Anderson, Glenn Anderson, Duane (Cintra) Anderson, and her sister, Mavis Anderson.

She is survived by her daughter, Claire Helen Horn (her husband, Kevin Sheridan), grandson, Nikolas Sheridan, sisters Carol Anderson, Norma (Bob) Klimpke, Sandy Anderson, and Corinne (Dennis) Koehler, sisters-in-law Lana Anderson and Margaret Anderson, as well as numerous nieces, nephews, and extended family.

She loved to spend time with family, and we will all miss her greatly.

Janice was an active member of Grace Lutheran Church of Clarion.

Sources

• Family knowledge. She's my mother.