FORT ANN – Marjorie “Janice” Herrick, 89, a long time Fort Ann resident, passed away on Friday April 19, 2013, at the Glens Falls House of Grace on Henry Street in Glens Falls.
Born on November 3, 1923, in Glace Bay, Cape Bratan, Nova Scotia, Canada, she was the daughter of the late Carl W. and Enna May (Bisansion) Travis.
In 1929, Janice and her family moved to Fort Ann. She attended Fort Ann Central Scool and was the valedictorian of the class of 1941. She continued her education at Good Samaritan Hospital and in 1943 received her nursing degree.
In that same year, she married James Clayton Herrick at St. Anne’s Church in Fort Ann. Together they traveled all over the United States during World War II. Mr. Herrick died March 6, 1976.
Janice was a long time emergency room nurse at the Glens Falls Hospital.
Her church was very important to her. While living in Fort Ann, she was a communicant of St. Anne’s Church, where she served as a Eucharistic Minister. More recently, she was a communicant of St. Mary’s Church and was a Eucharistic Minister, a member of the Catholic Daughters and the RICA.
She is survived by her son and daughters, Judith Horn and her partner Joseph Williams of Ossining, James Herrick and his wife, Corrine of Concord, NH, Joan Gagliardi and her husband, John of Naples, FL, Jahnese Overton and her husband, Emanuel of Orlando, FL and Jean Stoddard and her husband, Jeffrey of Hudson Falls; her grandchildren, Lisa Pinsion and her husband, Mark, Sara Sepyrgiotis and her husband Alex, Nathaniel Herrick and his wife, Anita, Nicholas Gagliardi, Jessica Martinez, Daniel Stoddard and Andrew Stoddard; and eight great-grandchildren.
Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday at the Carleton Funeral Home, Inc., 68 Main St., Hudson Falls.
A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Thursday at St. Mary’s/St. Paul’s Church, on the park, in Hudsopn Falls with the Rev. Thomas Babiuch, pastor officiating.
The Rite of Committal will follow at Fort Ann Cemetery in the town of Fort Ann.
Janice’s family suggest that memorial donations in her memory be made to House of Grace of the Adirondacks, 33 Henry St., Glens Falls, NY 12801.
Online condolences may be made by visiting our Web site at www.carletonfuneralhome.net.
My Thoughts and Prayers are with all of her family members during this time….May you find peace, solace and comfort in your memories!
It was the summer of the landing on the moon when I first met her…
For these last 43 years, I have looked forward to every visit with her…
She was a great conversationlist…
Gracious, kind, full of wisdom..
… But for me…her most outstanding quality was her quiet faith…
Her life centered around her faith…
Her dwelling place, simple but comfortable and peaceful, a dwelling place displaying her faith, her hope, her love…
The fruits of her labor throughout life, most impacting my life, is the son she raised…my husband….
Who has learned her qualiities and lived them in his life…
Her life as a nurse and raising 5 children is a tribute not to be forgotten either…
May God welcome her into His Kingdom, this woman who chose to walk a simple life of faith after being widowed at an early stage in life.
My thoughts snd prayers go out to her family at this difficult time.
Sending love and remembrance of my mother’s treasured friend Janice. If my mother could be there, she would say that your mom gave her a lifetime of friendship, and she loved her very much. My mother was blessed to have your mother and father in her life.
I’m grateful that I had the opportunity to sit and chat with your mom last year. She never changed throughout the years. She was a lovely lady with a great spirit! We had a great laugh over things that I had long forgotten!
Coreen, your tribute was beautiful…
I will always hold the memories of my time with your family in my heart.
Val
Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Verna (Allen) Harvey was my grandmother who was Janices Aunt. My mother (June Harvey) new Janice from going to morning weekday masses at St. Mary’s.
John
To the Family of Janice Herrick,
My wife and I wish to send our sincere condolences to you the family
of Janice Herrick. Following my father Walter’s death in January 1946
I left Whitehall in January 1947 with mother Viola and brother Robert
moving to Nova Scotia where mother was born. The last time I remember
visiting Janice was at a summer family picnic with uncle Harry and
aunt Mary at Lake George. I have visited Whitehall and Fort Ann
several times over the past years however, I have never had the
opertunity to visit with Janice. Janice and my sister Marcia were very
close growing up.
Mother, Viola Balch, was sister of Mary, Anne, Arthur, Enna, Verna,
Verta and Roy. My sister Marcia and brother Robert have passed away
several years ago and my step brother John, 88, died in February 2013
so there are just my step sister Elizabeth (Beth), 87 an me left in
the family.
Our love to all,
Ann & Stanley Balch
[email:sbalch@nbnet.nb.ca], Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Dear Jeannie and family,
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. May the wonderful memories of your mom help you through this time of loss. I remember your mom when we were kids. I think of her as a tiny, sweet and strong woman 🙂
God bless,
Bonnie Lunt Collins