Janice K. Huber – Estelline

Aug. 23, 1942 – March 3, 2017

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Janice K. Huber, 74, of Estelline, died  Friday, March 3, 2017, at the Estelline Nursing and Care Center after a short bout with leukemia. 

Funeral services are at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Estelline School Gymnasium. Visitation is from 5  to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Geise Funeral Chapel in Estelline.

 Janice “Jan” Kay Freesemann was born on Aug. 23, 1942, in Watertown to John and Ann (Tuin) Freesemann. 

 Jan attended Estelline High School and graduated in 1960. In 1966, she married Terry Rodman in Watertown. One year later they moved to Weisbaden, Germany, for Terry’s service in the Air Force.  In 1970, the couple moved to Jasper, Minn., where they owned a welding and machine shop. They had three children: Shannon, Shawna, and Jason.

  Jan and the kids moved to Estelline in 1984.  After a chance meeting in an aisle of Ward’s Grocery Store, Jan married Herman Huber in 1987 in Watertown.  

Together, they bought and ran the HiWay Café in Estelline for 11 years, until they sold it in 1999 due to Herm’s declining health.

 Jan retired from her daycare in 2005 to take care of Herm, who died in 2006.  She spent the last 11 years in Estelline doing the things she love – baking for friends, keeping up her flower gardens, and attending her grandchildren’s events. She had a kind word and a smile for everyone she met.

 Jan helped raise many of Estelline’s children in her 20-plus years as a daycare mom, loving her daycare children as her own.  She made friends wherever she went and loved to bake for others, many of whom raved about her chocolate cake.  She loved to flower garden and work in her yard, always making sure her mowing lines were perfectly straight. More than anything else she enjoyed being a grandma.

 She is survived by her daughter, Shawna (Scott) Vomacka of Bruce; son, Shannon (Lisa) Rodman of Belgrade, Mont.; son, Jason (Emily) Rodman of Seattle; seven grandchildren; two step-children, Cindy (Dale) Foster and Scott (Lori) Huber and their children; one brother, Ron (Arlene) Freesemann of Castlewood and their children; sisters-in-law, Betty Freesemann and Joyce Wermers; Terry Rodman and his wife, Kris; her very special friends, Abby Licht, Ellen Hansen and Barb Mohrer; and many nieces and nephews, relatives and friends. 

Jan was preceded in death by her husband, Herman; two brothers, Jerry and Jim; and an infant daughter.

 Condolences may be sent to the family through www.geisefuneralhome.com.