Janet E. Enarson was born November 29, 1942 in Des Moines, Iowa, the daughter of John and Dorothy (Denny) Scholes.  She graduated from Lincoln High School in 1959 and worked for Bankers Life for two and a half years.  She married Layton W. Vick of Spirit Lake and had four children.  Janet attended Iowa Lakes Community College in Emmetsburg and Iowa State University.
She moved to California in 1994 and met Richard Enarson and married in 1998.  They moved back to the lakes area so she could be closer to her children.
Janet helped organize the Dickinson County Citizen Band Emergency Radio Service (DC-CBERS) and served as their secretary.  She was a member of the United Methodist Church in Spirit Lake.  Janet joined the Spirit Lake Business and Professional Women in 1969.  She served BPW as finance chairman, BPW Week chairman, recording secretary, vice president and president and was named Woman of the Year in 1978.  She served on District and State offices.  She was also a member of the Rainbow Girls in High School, OES of Spirit Lake and a life member of VFW Ladies Auxiliary #4515 of Spirit Lake.
Janet passed away on August 17, 2008 at Lakes Regional Healthcare in Spirit Lake, Iowa at sixty-six years of age.

Survivors include her children, Paul Vick of Troy, Missouri, Layton C. Vick II and his wife Michelle of Spirit Lake, Elizabeth Vick-Hermann and her husband Rolf of Biel, Switzerland and LaRonna Opheim and her husband Tom of Milford, step-son, Mark Enarson of Antioch, California and step-daughter, Linda Enarson of Jacksonville, Florida; seven grandchildren, one great-grandchild; sister-in-law, Beverly Whitmer and her husband Warren of Tucson, Arizona; brothers-in-law, Bill Vick and his wife Rachel of Loveland, Colorado and Larry Vick and his wife Sue of Garland, Texas.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard; son, Robert William Vick; her parents and her brother, Jerry Scholes.

Seasons/Prospects Going along a dusty gravel road, on which a horse carriage is coming towards me. The dark veil, the black hat, even the striking of the hooves, I remain standing and raise my right hand to greet. Also today, in the middle of summer, my body is full of thoughts of the changing of the seasons. Where may they be, since the silence connects with the more lowly set sky? Presumably, I’ll likely write with ink again. The scraping noise of the feather, the growing words on ruled paper, as if I was standing in front of this sketch, which a friend gave me before departure. A frozen pond, a few unclear tree tops, and beyond, over the bare anticipating snow-covered hill, a thin, almost vibrating line under the cloudy heavens. Original German text by: Rolf Hermann English translation: Elizabeth Vick-Hermann

 

IN LOVING MEMORY

Janet (Vick) Enarson
November 29, 1941
August 17, 2008

SERVICES
United Methodist Church
Spirit Lake, Iowa
Friday, August 22, 2008   10:30AM

CLERGY
Pastor Lon Lewis

MUSIC
How Great Thou Art
Deanna Kuiper, organist

INTERMENT
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington,Virginia

Memorials may be made to:
Abben Cancer Center   1200 First Ave. E   Spencer, IA 51301