Janet Stegeman (237849219)
Suggested edit: Janet Allais Stegeman, 94, formerly of Athens, Ga., passed away Sept. 26, 2018, at her home of nine years in Stockton, Calif. A gifted author, poet and artist, Janet leaves behind a long legacy of fine works, not just on canvas and paper, but also in the lives and causes she championed.
Janet was born in Oak Park, Ill., on Oct. 18, 1923, to Elizabeth Spence Allais and John Robert "Bob" Allais. She lived her first six years in Wheeling, Ill., where her mother oversaw the Childerly Farm for Widows and Children. Her father, an executive for Sears, Roebuck & Co., moved the family to Atlanta when the department store company expanded into the Southeast. The move to Georgia was pivotal for Janet's future plans; at age six, she met a boy named John Stegeman and promptly decided that she would like to marry him someday.
John and Janet married in 1942, during the spring break of her freshman year at Northwestern University. Soon Janet moved with John to Decatur, Ga., where he was completing his medical internship at Grady Memorial Hospital. She worked as a lab assistant at Grady, on a research project studying war-related shock, and she conducted special teaching at Emory University.
The Stegemans moved to Athens, Ga. in 1949 and established Dr. Stegeman's medical practice. They had three children: Herman (Steg), Paul and Ann. Paul died in infancy.
In Athens, Janet quickly became active on many fronts, as artist, counselor, choir director, charity volunteer and patron of art and music. She was a member of Athens Junior Assembly, served as president of the League of Women voters, chaired Recording for the Blind and volunteered at the Heart Clinic. Janet was an original member of the Board of Directors of the Athens Boys Club, where she helped to organize the Boys' Club Choir and created a library for the children.
Janet helped launch Town & Gown Players, serving as seamstress, scene designer and director, as well as spearheading the effort to renovate an old canning plant into a theater for the group. She worked closely with the Art Association in both Atlanta and Athens and was selected Athens' Woman of the Year in Fine Arts in l966.
As an author, Janet's published work included two novels, Last Seen at Hopper's Lane and (under the pseudonym Kate Britton) Nightmare at Lillybrook. Several of her poems and short stories were printed in various literary publications, and she co-wrote, with her husband, the nonfiction book Caty: A Biography of Catharine Littlefield Green. Further demonstrating her love of the written word, Janet was a Great Books discussion leader at the Georgia Center.
Contributor: SBR (49039178)
Suggested edit: Janet Allais Stegeman, 94, formerly of Athens, Ga., passed away Sept. 26, 2018, at her home of nine years in Stockton, Calif. A gifted author, poet and artist, Janet leaves behind a long legacy of fine works, not just on canvas and paper, but also in the lives and causes she championed.
Janet was born in Oak Park, Ill., on Oct. 18, 1923, to Elizabeth Spence Allais and John Robert "Bob" Allais. She lived her first six years in Wheeling, Ill., where her mother oversaw the Childerly Farm for Widows and Children. Her father, an executive for Sears, Roebuck & Co., moved the family to Atlanta when the department store company expanded into the Southeast. The move to Georgia was pivotal for Janet's future plans; at age six, she met a boy named John Stegeman and promptly decided that she would like to marry him someday.
John and Janet married in 1942, during the spring break of her freshman year at Northwestern University. Soon Janet moved with John to Decatur, Ga., where he was completing his medical internship at Grady Memorial Hospital. She worked as a lab assistant at Grady, on a research project studying war-related shock, and she conducted special teaching at Emory University.
The Stegemans moved to Athens, Ga. in 1949 and established Dr. Stegeman's medical practice. They had three children: Herman (Steg), Paul and Ann. Paul died in infancy.
In Athens, Janet quickly became active on many fronts, as artist, counselor, choir director, charity volunteer and patron of art and music. She was a member of Athens Junior Assembly, served as president of the League of Women voters, chaired Recording for the Blind and volunteered at the Heart Clinic. Janet was an original member of the Board of Directors of the Athens Boys Club, where she helped to organize the Boys' Club Choir and created a library for the children.
Janet helped launch Town & Gown Players, serving as seamstress, scene designer and director, as well as spearheading the effort to renovate an old canning plant into a theater for the group. She worked closely with the Art Association in both Atlanta and Athens and was selected Athens' Woman of the Year in Fine Arts in l966.
As an author, Janet's published work included two novels, Last Seen at Hopper's Lane and (under the pseudonym Kate Britton) Nightmare at Lillybrook. Several of her poems and short stories were printed in various literary publications, and she co-wrote, with her husband, the nonfiction book Caty: A Biography of Catharine Littlefield Green. Further demonstrating her love of the written word, Janet was a Great Books discussion leader at the Georgia Center.
Contributor: SBR (49039178)
Janet Stegeman (237849219)
Suggested edit: Janet Allais Stegeman, 94, formerly of Athens, Ga., passed away Sept. 26, 2018, at her home of nine years in Stockton, Calif. A gifted author, poet and artist, Janet leaves behind a long legacy of fine works, not just on canvas and paper, but also in the lives and causes she championed.
Janet was born in Oak Park, Ill., on Oct. 18, 1923, to Elizabeth Spence Allais and John Robert "Bob" Allais. She lived her first six years in Wheeling, Ill., where her mother oversaw the Childerly Farm for Widows and Children. Her father, an executive for Sears, Roebuck & Co., moved the family to Atlanta when the department store company expanded into the Southeast. The move to Georgia was pivotal for Janet's future plans; at age six, she met a boy named John Stegeman and promptly decided that she would like to marry him someday.
John and Janet married in 1942, during the spring break of her freshman year at Northwestern University. Soon Janet moved with John to Decatur, Ga., where he was completing his medical internship at Grady Memorial Hospital. She worked as a lab assistant at Grady, on a research project studying war-related shock, and she conducted special teaching at Emory University.
The Stegemans moved to Athens, Ga. in 1949 and established Dr. Stegeman's medical practice. They had three children: Herman (Steg), Paul and Ann. Paul died in infancy.
In Athens, Janet quickly became active on many fronts, as artist, counselor, choir director, charity volunteer and patron of art and music. She was a member of Athens Junior Assembly, served as president of the League of Women voters, chaired Recording for the Blind and volunteered at the Heart Clinic. Janet was an original member of the Board of Directors of the Athens Boys Club, where she helped to organize the Boys' Club Choir and created a library for the children.
Janet helped launch Town & Gown Players, serving as seamstress, scene designer and director, as well as spearheading the effort to renovate an old canning plant into a theater for the group. She worked closely with the Art Association in both Atlanta and Athens and was selected Athens' Woman of the Year in Fine Arts in l966.
As an author, Janet's published work included two novels, Last Seen at Hopper's Lane and (under the pseudonym Kate Britton) Nightmare at Lillybrook. Several of her poems and short stories were printed in various literary publications, and she co-wrote, with her husband, the nonfiction book Caty: A Biography of Catharine Littlefield Green. Further demonstrating her love of the written word, Janet was a Great Books discussion leader at the Georgia Center.
Contributor: SBR (49039178)
Suggested edit: Janet Allais Stegeman, 94, formerly of Athens, Ga., passed away Sept. 26, 2018, at her home of nine years in Stockton, Calif. A gifted author, poet and artist, Janet leaves behind a long legacy of fine works, not just on canvas and paper, but also in the lives and causes she championed.
Janet was born in Oak Park, Ill., on Oct. 18, 1923, to Elizabeth Spence Allais and John Robert "Bob" Allais. She lived her first six years in Wheeling, Ill., where her mother oversaw the Childerly Farm for Widows and Children. Her father, an executive for Sears, Roebuck & Co., moved the family to Atlanta when the department store company expanded into the Southeast. The move to Georgia was pivotal for Janet's future plans; at age six, she met a boy named John Stegeman and promptly decided that she would like to marry him someday.
John and Janet married in 1942, during the spring break of her freshman year at Northwestern University. Soon Janet moved with John to Decatur, Ga., where he was completing his medical internship at Grady Memorial Hospital. She worked as a lab assistant at Grady, on a research project studying war-related shock, and she conducted special teaching at Emory University.
The Stegemans moved to Athens, Ga. in 1949 and established Dr. Stegeman's medical practice. They had three children: Herman (Steg), Paul and Ann. Paul died in infancy.
In Athens, Janet quickly became active on many fronts, as artist, counselor, choir director, charity volunteer and patron of art and music. She was a member of Athens Junior Assembly, served as president of the League of Women voters, chaired Recording for the Blind and volunteered at the Heart Clinic. Janet was an original member of the Board of Directors of the Athens Boys Club, where she helped to organize the Boys' Club Choir and created a library for the children.
Janet helped launch Town & Gown Players, serving as seamstress, scene designer and director, as well as spearheading the effort to renovate an old canning plant into a theater for the group. She worked closely with the Art Association in both Atlanta and Athens and was selected Athens' Woman of the Year in Fine Arts in l966.
As an author, Janet's published work included two novels, Last Seen at Hopper's Lane and (under the pseudonym Kate Britton) Nightmare at Lillybrook. Several of her poems and short stories were printed in various literary publications, and she co-wrote, with her husband, the nonfiction book Caty: A Biography of Catharine Littlefield Green. Further demonstrating her love of the written word, Janet was a Great Books discussion leader at the Georgia Center.
Contributor: SBR (49039178)
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