Jan was a dedicated wife, mother, and children's educator. She was a lifelong advocate for children’s reading programs and a librarian at Falmouth Elementary School in Maine for many years. An active member of First Lutheran Church in Portland, she volunteered as a Sunday School teacher and served on numerous committees.
Despite having Parkinson's for 12 years, Jan never allowed that diagnosis to define her. She enjoyed hiking, bargain hunting, boxing, and furthering children’s literacy in any way she could, often anonymously.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson's disease and to ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with Parkinson's today. The Foundation is the world's largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson's research, with more than $800 million in high-impact research funded to date.
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