Julia Ann 'Jan' (Goode) (Meers) Fromm
Former Kenai resident Julia Ann "Jan" (Goode) (Meers) Fromm died Monday, Aug. 11, 2008, in Bartlesville, Okla. She was 88.
Services were held Tuesday, Aug. 19, at Memorial Park Cemetery in Bartlesville. Rev. Chuck McCarthy officiated.
Mrs. Fromm was born May 9, 1920, at Goree, Texas, to Edward and Effie D. (Stalcup) Goode. She married Burl Douglas Meers in 1939 in Haskell, Texas. After Pearl Harbor was attacked, Burl joined the Army Air Corp.
"Following the war, the family returned to Seymour, Texas where Jan was a devoted wife, a loving mother, and a hardworking partner on the family farm," her family said.
In 1960, the family moved to Alamosa, Colo., and operated a ranch. Jan was a homemaker, hospital volunteer and ranch hand. The couple became active in amateur radio and obtained their licenses in 1971.
In 1972 the Meers' moved to Kenai to be near their daughter. They moved to Anchorage in 1975. Mr. Meers died in 1976. Jan married Al Fromm on Aug. 29, 1977, in Anchorage. The Fromms relocated to Bartlesville in 1995.
"In 1982, Jan obtained her advanced class amateur radio license and was issued the Call Sign AL7FH. She loved her radio friends around the world and embraced modern technology from a very early age. She held life memberships in the American Radio Relay League and the Quarter Century Wireless Association," her family said. "Jan made friends with every merchant and neighbor where she lived. She purchased her first computer in 1983 and upgraded to a new PC last year. She was learning to use e-mail and the Internet for researching the many subjects that caught her interest. She will be remembered for her keen intellect, interest in world affairs and flashy style. As recently as June she gave music lessons to her daughter in Alaska with a Skype and speaker phone hook-up."
Mrs. Fromm is preceded in death by her parents; sister, Berniece (Pendleton) West; first husband; daughters, Sandra and Beryl Dene; brothers-in-law, Boyd and Floyd Meers; and sister-in-law, Lily Meers.
She is survived by her second husband; daughter, Sherry Innes of Kenai; step-daughter, Melissa Dawn Shehi; brothers, Jimmy Goode, of Houston, Gene Goode, of Buckholts, Texas, and Bob Goode, of Quitman, Texas; grandchildren, Scott Innes, of Soldotna, Rob Innes, of Seattle, Lisa (Innes) Robertson, of Seattle, Jan Kirby Medlin of Raleigh, N.C., Dena Kirby Lambert, of North Richland Hills, Texas, Kirsten Kirby-Barfield, of Keller, Texas, and Robert "Beau" Kirby, of Baton Rouge, La.; step-grandchildren, Christiaan David Shehi and Ashley Dawn Shehi; great-grandchildren, James and Juliette Innes, Brooke and Jake Robertson, Christian Holland, Holly Hart, Chelsea and Chaffy Lambert and Hannah and Brayden Barfield; sister-in-law, Ruby Meers; nephews, Boyd Lynn and Jerry Meers, Nicholas Goode and Jimmy Pendleton; and nieces, Kathy (Pendleton) Williams and Suzanne (Goode) Ausmus.
Arrangements were made by Arnold Moore Funeral Service in Oklahoma.