Our Homecoming Queen

Jane M. McCanney (Grove)  - known to us as Janie.  We asked her husband, Al Grove, to write about the loss of our beautiful homecoming queen:

"I'm writing on behalf of Janie McCanney, your 1958 Homecoming Queen.   As many of you will sadly remember, Janie died in January of 1991 of ovarian cancer.  It was an enormous loss for many of you who were such good friends to her.  I was very lucky.  I was privileged to be married to Janie for 28 years.   I know how important her high school years were to her and how much you, her girl friends and boy friends and classmates, meant to her.  After her high school graduation, she graduated from the University of Minnesota, where incidentally she was a Delta Gamma like her sister Mary.  She then taught 2nd and 4th graders at Westview Elementary School in Hopkins.  Were Janie writing this, she would quickly tell you how proud she was of her boys and she would also let it be known that she was a decent tennis player.  (But because I'm writing this, I can tell you she was far better than "decent")  About the boys, Chris is now 40, and Pat is 37 (in the year 2008).  Both graduated from St. John's University, both graduated from William Mitchell School of Law, both are married, and both are practicing law in the Twin Cities.  And both are as different as night and day.  Chris has two children (15 and 12) and lives in Burnsville.  Pat and his wife live in Minneapolis.  How very proud Janie would be of both her boys.

May your memories of Janie be warm and may you celebrate her life; though too short, it was a life well lived."

Al Grove

Janie was survived by sons Christopher & Patrick and sister Mary Gergen & husband Ken; niece and nephew, Lisa Gebhart & Michael Gebhart, all of Philadelphia, PA.  Janie is interred in Lakewood Cemetery.