Janice Marie Rosback was born in Oak Park, IL and was the first child of Donald & Geneva Rosback (both deceased). She has a sister Jean (deceased) and a brother Thomas (Salida, CO).

Janice was married to her college sweetheart (Alan Gillespie) and together they have 2 sons – Scot Gillespie (Kodak, TN) and David Gillespie (Glenview, ll) and their adopted fur-friend Phineas. Together she & Alan enjoyed over 57 years of loving and joyful times together.

She loved her health care profession and had a successful career as a Registered Nurse specializing in Emergency care & Trauma. She retired in 2017 as the program manager of the Trauma program at Loyola University Medical Center in Illinois.

Her interests included her family – her sons, her grandchildren (Christopher, Elizabeth, and Jessen) and her great granddaughter (Adaline). She had a strong Christian faith and was very active in her church. Another interest was American history being a long time member of a national President Lincoln education group and was a founding member and officer of the Cumberland Mountain Civil War Round Table organization.

Janice will be sorely missed by her family and many friends and was surly welcomed at her arrival in Heaven.