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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271510
Title: Janice "Jan" Kitzan
Date: 1/1/1944-4/27/2016
Creator:
Inscription/Marks: 1/4/1944
Summary: Janice “Jan” Kitzan, 72, Bismarck, ND, died April 27, 2016, in a Bismarck Care Center.  Services were held May 2, 2016, at Century Baptist Church, Bismarck, with Rev. Dave Gallagher officiating. Jan was born January 4, 1944, in Dickinson, ND, the daughter of George and Bertha (Hasenmaier) Reetz. She grew up on the family farm north of Hebron, ND.  She attended country schools and Hebron High School. Jan moved to Bismarck where she was employed as a ward clerk in pediatrics with Bismarck Hospital. She endured the March of ’66 blizzard working three days straight at the hospital. Jan married Warren Kitzan on June 13, 1966, in Hebron at St. John’s Church.  The couple moved to Grand Forks, where Jan worked at a local hospital while Warren finished college.  In the spring of 1967, they moved to Portland, OR, for two years and Jan worked as a secretary  In June 1969, they moved to Dickinson, ND, where Warren and Jan purchased apartments which Jan managed. In August 1987, they moved to Bismarck where Jan assisted with Warren’s tax service. Jan enjoyed baking and would make goodie boxes for the grandkids; embroidery, and knitting, and would knit sweaters for the grandkids. When Melanie developed food allergies, Jan published a recipe book with substitutes for various items causing the allergy. She also taught Sunday School and AWANA. She was a member of the Good Sam Camper Club, and really enjoyed camping and fishing.  Jan is survived by her husband, Warren, Bismarck; two children, Cory (Laurie), Woodinville, WA, and Melanie Kitzan, North Bend, WA; seven grandchildren, Alex, Andrew, Emily, Ryan Kitzan, and Lydia, Claire, and Audrey Haindfield; her brother, Gary Reetz, Hebron; and her sister, Karen Peterson, New Salem. She was preceded in death by her parents.
Red ID: FND_I_79006 Image ID: 523770 Image Notes: FND001 271510

Collection: FND001 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Date: -

Summary: The North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program is sponsored by the North Dakota Funeral Directors Association. The life stories of deceased North Dakotans are featured in an archvied collection. Current partners in the project are Eastgate Funeral & Cremation Services, Bismarck Evans Funeral Homes, Carrington and New Rockford Everson-Coughlin Funeral Home, Williston Fulkerson Funeral Home, Tioga Fulkerson Funeral Home, Watford City Fulkerson Stevenson Funeral Home, Williston Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck Springan Stevenson Funeral Home, Stanley Stevenson Funeral Home, Dickinson These funeral homes provide recent obituaries to the Foundation, where staff and volunteers format, edit and archive each memorial. The memorials are posted, and copies are sent to the family for their input and approval. The listing currently features more than 13,000 memorials, and is constantly updated as new memorials and histories are received.

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