JANICE E. CRABB

Janice E. Crabb, age 79, a former longtime Sidney resident passed away Tuesday in Medford, OR, February 2, 2016.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:30 A.M., Wednesday, February 24th in the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Sidney with Father Jim Heithoff officiating. Inurnment will follow in the Greenwood Cemetery. There will be no Wake or Rosary Services. Friends may stop at the Gehrig-Stitt Chapel on Tuesday to sign Janice’s register book and leave condolences for the family. Memorials to the Arthritis Foundation, Nebraska Chapter or St Patrick's Church. Gehrig-Stitt Chapel & Cremation Service, LLC is in charge of Janice’s care and funeral arrangements.

Survivors include two daughters, Christine and Charles Aden, Medford OR and Barbara Crabb, Sidney NE. Four grandsons, Jay (Jessica) Aden, Terre Haute, IN, Joshua Ward, Sidney NE, Riley (Lori) Aden, Somerset, KY and Jordan Ward, Lincoln NE. One brother, Patrick Farnsworth and one sister, Joy Hoerler. Several nieces and nephews.

Janice Ellen Farnsworth Crabb, born January 4, 1937 at the family farm in Carroll, Wayne County, Nebraska. The second child, oldest daughter of Harvey W. and Bernadette (Shannon) Farnsworth. Moved to Sidney, Cheyenne County, Nebraska with her family in 1942 when her father came to work on the Union Pacific Railroad. She attended Kindergarten at north elementary and then attended and graduated from St Patrick's Academy in 1955. Lived in San Diego, CA for four years, and then returned to Nebraska in 1960 and to Sidney in 1969. Served as secretary for St. Patrick's Church from 1974-1981. She was a member of the Alter Society and Catholic Daughters. She moved to Florida to live with Christine in 2002. She then moved to Kentucky in 2010 and most recently moved to Medford Oregon in 2015. She is preceded in death by her parents and one brother, Donald Farnsworth.