Janice Lenore Schierhorn

Janice Lenore Schierhorn, resident of KentRidge assisted-living facility and a long-time teacher and administrator public schools in Michigan, died Monday (Sept. 6, 2010) at the age of 91. Mrs. Schierhorn had been a resident of Kent for just more than a year. She moved to Kent by be near her son, Carl, in 2009. Mrs. Schierhorn had moved to Kent from Milwaukee, Wisc. She had lived there with her twin sister, Jean Carroll, for 21 years. Before that, she was a second-grade teacher and director of the Head Start Program for most of her 26-year career in the Adrian Public Schools in Adrian, Mich. Mrs. Schierhorn was born in 1919 in West Liberty, Iowa, daughter of Warren and Mabel Pulse. She graduated from high school in suburban Chicago, and from Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Ill., in 1941. She and her twin were the first members of her family to graduate from college. Mrs. Schierhorn also was the first member of her family to receive a master's degree. She is survived by her sons, Carl, a professor of journalism and mass communication at Kent State University, his wife, Ann, also a KSU professor of journalism, and her granddaughter, Karen, a fashion designer in New York City; and Paul, a professor of theater arts at Mars Hill College in North Carolina, his wife, Maria, an actor and acting teacher, and her grandson, Will, a high school student. Her husband, Barney, died in 1966. Services were private. Donations may be made to the Discovery Eye Foundation Macular Degeneration Partnership through its Web site at http://www.amd.org/ways-to-give.html or by mail at Discovery Eye Foundation/AMD Macular Degeneration Partnership, 6222 Wilshire Blvd., #260, Los Angeles, CA 90048.