er M.A. in elementary education supervision. Janet's husband always had a great deal of respect for her motivation and independence in working her way through college as a single woman. She was employed about a year at a time as a waitress at Dayton's Sky Room in Minneapolis, as a clerk in the Birth and Death Records in the Minneapolis City Hall, as a "girl assistant" with a Minneapolis Doctor's Family, and as a telephone operator in Waterville, MN. After her teaching career, Janet was united in marriage on June 11, 1960, to Samuel Wesley McAllister Jr. at First Presbyterian Church in Iowa City, IA. She and her husband were members of the Asbury First United Methodist Church in Rochester, NY. Janet worked as a kindergarten teacher for the Cedar Rapids School District for six years, where she always loved working with the younger children. Janet enjoyed playing the piano and participating in modern dance. She had a habit of always connecting the year of her birth (1928) with the same year (1928) Walt Disney created the famous cartoon character, Mickey Mouse. Thus her attraction to Disney World in Florida and various Disney-type clothing and memorabilia. During her 58 years of marriage, Janet was a "stay-at-home mom" with their children while participating in community activities and while following her husband's career as the City Manager's wife in Iowa City, IA; Moberly, MO; Bloomington, IL; Sioux City, IA; Jackson, MI; Casper, WY; East Detroit, MI; and Eastpointe, MI. The couple then retired for ten years to live closer to their daughter and granddaughters in Rochester, NY, before returning in 2010 to her husband's hometown of Conrad, IA, for her nursing and hospice care at Oakview Nursing Home. Janet is survived by her husband, Samuel (Wes) McAllister Jr., of Conrad; son Thomas Henderson McAllister of Jackson, MI; daughters Ann Schuyler McAllister-Thomas of Rochester, NY, and Michele (Matt) Hodges of Grosse Pointe Park, MI. She is further survived by four granddaughters, Sylvia and Josephine Hodges and Gracie Schuyler and Priscilla Jane Thomas; ten nieces and six nephews. Janet is preceded in death by her parents, a son, Samuel W. McAllister III; brother James (Barbara) Pratt; three sisters, Priscilla (Max) Higbee, Vera (Leo) Moser, Laura (Blaine) Burright, and one nephew.