{"id":35528,"date":"2019-11-16T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=374571"},"modified":"2019-11-16T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T22:00:06","slug":"obituary-donald-wallace-janes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/obituary-donald-wallace-janes\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Donald Wallace Janes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/obit-janes-sdn-111719-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/obit-janes-sdn-111719-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/obit-janes-sdn-111719-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/obit-janes-sdn-111719-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Donald Wallace Janes <\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>June 12, 1929 \u2013 November 3, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don was born in Kansas City, MO, to Heman \u201cBud\u201d and Leila Janes. He grew up in Kansas and got his BA, MS, and PhD (Kansas State) in zoology. He married Norma Lee (d,1978) in 1953 and studied and worked all over the midwest and in Austria on a Fulbright Fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>After 1963, they lived in Pueblo and Beulah Colorado while Don was a Professor and administrator at the University of Southern Colorado. He loved fun with the kids, hiking, music, bird-watching, skiing, bicycling, canoeing, climbing peaks, and genealogy.<\/p>\n<p>He married Janina Piorkowska in 1981 and they later moved to Breckenridge. He was an election judge, ski mountain guide, and was on the boards of the Breckenridge Music Festival and Silver Sheckel HOA. He later lived with friend Eleanor Quick in Frisco and then with his friend Edie Fisher in Loveland until his death.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by children Todd (Robin), Jeff (Kristie), Scott (Eileen), and Nancy (John Behrs) Janes, sister Katherine Streicher, six grandchildren, and many great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>No services will be held. Memories may be sent to the family at <a href=\"mailto:donMemories@whitewaterhill.com\">donMemories@whitewaterhill.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Memorial contributions may be made to Summit County Search &amp; Rescue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/obituary-donald-wallace-janes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Wallace Janes Courtesy photo June 12, 1929 \u2013 November 3, 2019 Don was born in Kansas City, MO, to Heman \u201cBud\u201d and Leila Janes. He grew up in Kansas and got his BA, MS, and PhD (Kansas State) in zoology. He married Norma Lee (d,1978) in 1953 and studied and worked all over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-04 03:17:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}