Janice Ann Lundin

April 21, 1931 - January 2, 2017

Janice Ann Lundin, age 86, of Dassel, died Monday, January 2, 2017, at the Augustana Lakeside Health Care Center of Dassel. A funeral service will be held on Friday, January 6, 2017, at 10:00 a.m. at the Lamson Evangelical Free Church in Dassel with Pastor Mike Newsom officiating. The interment will be held following the service at the Dassel Cemetery. A visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the Lamson Evangelical Free Church on Friday morning. The Johnson Funeral Home of Dassel is in charge of the funeral arrangements. Janice Ann Lundin was born in Collinwood Township, Meeker County, Minnesota on April 21, 1930, to Gerhard "George" and Anna Elizabeth (Nelson) Lundin. She was baptized and confirmed and an active member all of her life at the Lamson Evangelical Free Church. She attended Collins School through the eighth grade and graduated from the Dassel High School in the class of 1948. In July of 1950, she received her Teachers Credentials from St. Cloud Teacher's College. From the fall of 1950 to the summer of 1952, she taught elementary school in Cokato. She then went to Trinity Seminary and Bible College. After completing her course work in 1953, she went to the Belgium Congo to teach missionary children of the Evangelical Free Church and the Mission Covenant for 3 ½ years. Upon her return she again studied at St. Cloud and completed her degree in 1961. In the fall of 1961, she began teaching elementary school in Mound, Minnesota. She retired in the spring of 1989, and made her home in Dassel. Janice had a great sense of humor, loved to travel and was a talented photographer. She was also a loving caretaker for her father, her aunt, Esther Lundin, and her cousin, Dorothy Latt until their deaths. She is survived by her cousins on both sides of the family. She was preceded in death by her parents and a baby sister.