Janet Mary Whiston

Born in Woburn, Massachusetts, May 11, 1931. After completing high school in Stoneham and following the death of her father, Frank Whiston, she and her mother, Isadore Eleanor (nee) Hathorne and aunt Viola M. Hathorne, moved to St. Petersburg, FL. Janet was graduated from St. Petersburg College in 1977 with an AS in accounting and worked as Data Entry Manager at Maas Brothers in Tampa, from where she retired after 38 years.

Besides her parents, Janet was preceded in death by her brothers: Norman Hathorne Whiston (Eleanor Humphrey), Frank Whiston, Jr. (Margaret Sell), Bruce Stuart Whiston, Charles Frances Whiston, Gordon Ronald Whiston, and Donald Whiston. Surviving family included nieces Mary Whiston (Alan Weiner) and Janet Anne Whiston (John A Hassinger), and nephews David Phillip (Sandra) Whiston, Jay Peter (Becky). Whiston and Glen Allen Whiston and their respective children and many other nieces and nephews.

She and her close friend of 36 years, her sorority sister, Janice Dietrich, resided in Brooksville, FL.

Episcopalian by faith. Member of Epsilon Sigma Alpha International Sorority and Daughters of the American Revolution. Her interests included traveling, photography, reading and numerous philanthropic endeavors. And, her cats!

A Celebration of Life will be planned for a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting in kind memorial donations to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital or consider becoming a Lions Club Eye Bank donor, as Janet was.