Janice Stephens Hinson

Mrs. Janice Kaye Stephens Hinson, 84, of Charlotte, NC passed Tuesday March 26, 2024 at home. Janice had been suffering with dementia for a number of years. Then, she was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer last spring. Fortunately, the dementia made her forget she had cancer. The family rejoices that her battles are over, and that she is now with our Lord and Savior in Heaven.

Born on October 2, 1939, in the textile community of Monaghan in Greenville, SC, Janice was the only child of the late William M. ''Bud' Stephens and Lucille Buff Stephens. Janice graduated from her beloved Parker High School in 1957. Some of her fondest memories were playing the bassoon and the glockenspiel in the high school band, and traveling to New Orleans to march in the Mardi Gras her senior year. Janice loved her Monaghan and Parker heritage and was always rounding up family members to blaze down I-85 to get to some type of shindig.

Janice met her husband, Colin, while carousing at the Carolina Drive In in Greenville, SC and were married for almost 60 years. Colin whisked Janice away to Charlotte where they built a house and a big garden, and raised two awesome kids. She left her job as a telephone operator for Southern Bell, and then went to work with Colin in 1969 in their newly founded, and later successful, appliance repair business, Crown Appliance Service. Janice kept the company books, and answered the company calls with the nicest temperament. The company serviced appliances for the likes of Billy Graham, Felix Sabates, John Crosland, and Dell Curry. Working from home allowed Janice to raise and supervise her kids as well as the neighbors’ kids, and to get them to ball practice, scouts, and piano lessons on time. Her kitchen was always open and she was always willing to add another potato to the pot. Once Colin retired from Crown Appliance, Janice went to work for an awesome group of people at Meletex in Charlotte. Besides answering phones and performing office duties, she and coworkers spent a lot of time eating.

She was a member at Hickory Grove United Methodist in Charlotte for around 50 years, a member at Blair Road UMC since 2015, and was attending The Road Church in 2023. Janice was a true servant and was active with Methodist Women, Girl Scouts, Music Makers, Prayer Ministry, Stephens Ministry, Church Choir, and the Cokesbury and Hannah Sunday School Classes. She attended innumerous boys, girls, and men's church sponsored softball and basketball games and practices due to either Colin coaching, or Scott and Susan playing. She loved to travel with Christian Tours, enjoyed water aerobics classes at the YMCA, liked working in her flower beds, and was fond of going to movies and out to eat. Her favorites were chocolate, ice cream, and hamburgers. She liked Pat Boone better than Elvis. And until they got a TV with a remote, Janice was Colin’s remote. She was a night owl.

Janice is survived by two children, Scott Hinson and his wife, Marcia, of Mint Hill NC, and Susan Fennell of Belmont, NC; a granddaughter, Sheridan Fennell, of Gastonia NC; and a grandson, TSgt Hunter Fennell, serving in the World’s Greatest Air Force.

Visitation will be Tuesday April 2nd from 12:30 to 2:00 at McEwen Funeral Home, 7428 Matthews-Mint Hill Road, Mint Hill, NC 28227. Pastor Mark Weekley will officiate. Interment will follow at Sharon Memorial Park.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to The Road Church, PO Box 690683, Mint Hill, NC 28227, or

The St. Jude Affiliate Clinic at Novant Health Hemby Children’s Hospital, 301 Hawthorne Lane, Suite 100

Charlotte, NC 28204.