Janet Marshall

Janet Kay (Nash) Marshall, 79, of Ankeny, Iowa, passed away at Mercy Hospital in Des Moines on July 5, 2021 after a brief illness. A private interment will be held at Iowa Veterans Cemetery in Van Meter, Iowa. A Celebration of Life will be held at the Ankeny Lakeside Center on Sunday, August 1, 2021 at 1:00 p.m.

Janet was born to James and Evelyn (Stauber) Nash on December 6, 1941 in LeRoy, Iowa. Janet married Max Marshall on August 20, 1961 and together they lived nearly all of their adult life in Ankeny, Iowa.

Janet worked for nearly 30 years at the Heartland Area Education Agency, first in Ankeny and then in Johnston. Most of her time at the AEA was working in the agency’s lending library. Her love of books and reading was passed to her children and grandchildren.

She is survived by her husband, Max; son, Dennis (Terry) Marshall; daughter, Michelle (Michael) Neubauer; grandchildren, Nash, Holly and Kara Neubauer, Lorna (Frank) Sasso-Vansant, and Katie Holm; great-grandchildren, Frankie and Mya Sasso-Vansant; and sister, Beverly Lancaster. She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Terry and Larry Nash.

Donations in lieu of flowers may be sent to support child literacy through Iowa Center for the Book Foundation, c/o Nancy Medema at State Library of Iowa, 1112 East Grand Ave., Des Moines, Iowa, 50319.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.HamiltonsFuneralHome.com.

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