Janet Cantwell

CANTWELL, JANET E. Graveside services are scheduled for 10:00 am on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at South Park Cemetery for Janet E. Cantwell, age 84, of Port Charlotte, Florida, who passed away May 15, 2011.

Visitation will be held Tuesday, May 24, 2011 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Janet was born on August 22, 1926 in Detroit, Michigan to Robert and Ethel MacKenzie. They have preceded her in death.

Janet is survived by a son, James Murphy and his wife Mamie of Lakeland, Michigan, Grandchildren, Rebecca, Megan and Melanie and a daughter, Maureen Gardner and her husband Ray of Port Charlotte, Florida, Grandchildren, Patrick, Bradley, Elizabeth and Amanda Greatgrandchildren, Justin, Tyler, Jacob and Mackenzie.

Janet was raised and educated in Michigan, where she earned her B.A. degree in biology and chemistry at Kalamazoo College and a certificate of medical technology from Womens Hospital in Detroit. She and her husband, Herb Murphy, and two children moved to Albuquerque in 1955. In 1968 she moved to Roswell where she became a supervisor of the Income Support Division for the State of New Mexico Human Services Department. Janet was also a long time member of the Roswell Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 3187.

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