Janet Marie Semrad-Lehmann

She was born January 20, 1939, in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, to the late Edward Joseph and Leone (nee Love) Semrad. Janet attended Edgewood High School in Madison Wisconsin.

In 1958, Janet met and married Richard A. “Dick” Telvick. They were a handsome couple. In 1965, the couple purchased a bucolic 66-acre working farm near Deerfield, Wisconsin where their family flourished. Janet and Dick were married for twenty years and raised six children before divorcing in the late 1970s.

Janet was an intelligent woman who was ahead of her time. She practiced organic gardening beginning in the 1960s. She fed her children goat milk and fresh meat from the animals they raised on the farm. She took on ambitious DIY projects with her husband. They expanded their farmhouse dramatically with wood and field stone materials harvested directly from their farm.

Janet was also a breeder of championship Golden Retrievers. She founded Hammerlock Kennels and later Tamarack Kennels where her dogs excelled in field trials, obedience trials, and conformation shows. Janet's dogs were essential to assist pheasant and duck hunting to feed her family. Frequently having puppies around delighted her children. Janet was a voracious reader, an active tennis player, and a lifelong lover of nature, gardening, and animals of all kinds.

In 1984 Janet met and married John P. Lehmann. Janet had moved from Madison to Delafield, and she worked at the State of Wisconsin Ethan Allen School for Boys in Wales, Wisconsin where she had met John, who worked there as a counselor. The couple later relocated to the Phoenix, AZ area where they lived beneath the Superstition Mountains in the dry, hot weather that Janet so preferred over the Midwest.

Janet loved to travel domestically and to write home long essays about her travels. In 2003, she purchased a 1995 Ford Airstream B190 camper and traveled everywhere, often alone as she preferred, or with fellow adventurous members of the RVing Women Travel Club. Janet traveled to Alaska. She caught and smoked salmon in Montana. She assisted a Habitat for Humanity home build in New Mexico. She thoroughly enjoyed touching a whale while in a small boat off the coast of the Baja peninsula. Janet traveled in her RV for more than 15 years until her travels were restricted due to health concerns.

Janet is survived by her children Shari Telvick, Cindy (Phil) Statz, Christina (Gary) Nordick, David (Lorna) Telvick, Marlena (Joseph Santel) Telvick, and Patricia (Roland/Skip) Kraiss; sister and closest friend Patricia Maier and six of her seven children; four grandchildren, Michelle, Krystina, Ben, and Alaithaia and two great grandchildren, Marissa and Kei.

Janet was preceded in death by her parents, brother Keith, former husband Richard Telvick, second husband John Lehmann, and infant twin child, Kari.

Per Janet’s wishes no burial services will be held. Janet’s ashes will be interred next to her mother’s grave at Resurrection Cemetery in Madison, Wisconsin. Online condolences may be made at Mariposa Gardens Memorial Park & Funeral Care (dignitymemorial.com).