Janet Twiddy VanBelois

Beloved Janet Twiddy VanBelois passed into the hands of her Lord Jesus Christ on December 12, 2020, at age 71. Janet succumbed to complications following neurosurgical removal of a meningioma tumor of the brain.

Janet Lee Mainord was born on December 26, 1948, at St. Mary’s Infirmary in Cairo, Illinois, across the Mississippi bridge from her father, Milas Rex Mainord and her mother, Mildred B. Walters Mainord, beloved Centennial MRM Farm in East Prairie, Missouri, where she spent her youth and worshipped her Lord at First Christian Church. She graduated from East Prairie High School in 1966 and attended Munay State University and Southeast Missouri State University earning an Elementary Education Degree. She married Stephen Joel Wilson in 1973 and taught in the Missouri school system at Columbia, helping Joel attending Law School. The marriage ended in divorce in 1976. Janet moved to and taught in Memphis, Tennessee, where she married a widower, Marshall Hugh Twiddy in 1980 and adopted Hugh’s children, Matthew, age 4 and Arica, age 18 months old. They lived in Memphis for several years where Hugh owned an insurance agency before moving to Kitty Hawk in the outer banks of North Carolina in 1983, where Hugh work in insurance and then banking. Janet taught in the Kitty Hawk Elementary School for 5 years. In 1989, the incredible “Miss Janet” started her own Preschool for 3- and 4-year olds and also ran an afterschool and summer care program. Her love of teaching children was the joy of her life. In January of 2005, Hugh passed away. Friends introduced Janet to Dr. Harvard John VanBelois, Jr., and they married on January 2, 2006.

Janet worked with John, a retired Navy Captain Dental Corps Officer of 31 years in his Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery practice in the outer banks. They retired in April 2010 and split their time between their North Carolina home in Southern Shores and Snowbird home in the Eaglewood Community at Hobe Sound, Florida, where they moved to permanently in 2016.

Janet was a member of the choir at Hobe Sound First United Methodist Church and lead a Women of the Worth Bible Study at Jupiter Tequesta United Methodist Church.

She took up and loved golf at Eaglewood and served as President of Women’s 9 Hole Golf Association for one year. She loved all her WOW ladies and her 9 Holers.

Janet is survived by her husband of 15 years, John, as well as her brother, Milas Rex Mainord II and wife Barbara, sisters Karen Lay and Michael, and Laura Gay LaPlant and Fieldin, her children Matthew Twiddy and wife Katie, Arica, and Lance McCord,

Stepchildren Terrie McCrimmon and spouse, Neil, Betsy Stikeleather and Ben.

There are 5 grandchildren – Claudia, Carter, Claire, Sophia, and Samuel, and Richda Cordle, aunt of Matthew and Arica. All were dearly loved by Janet. Her love and faith in God and Jesus Christ, her Savior, were her priority then family and love of all people.

Memorials could be made to her favorite charity, The Methodist Home for Children of Florida. Memorial donations can be mailed to:

First United Methodist Church of Hobe Sound

10100 SE Federal Highway

Hobe Sound, FL 33455