Janet Keazer was 'good people'
To the Editor:
I read last week that Janet Keazer passed from this life on Dec. 7. Too often these days my reading of the Record brings news of the death of an acquaintance or neighbor of mine in those years when Marion was my home.
Janet and Harold Keazer and their children were neighbors of ours as we lived at 620 Hudson.
Many summer days and evenings were spent playing in their front and back yard with all the Enseys, Goods, Pankratzs, and other neighborhood kids, doing what kids did in those days, playing hide-and-seek, kick the can, football, you name it. I remember Janet as a very kind mom to all of us, patient with the chaos of kids running all over the place evening after evening.
Her son Jim was some years younger than me and I remember in my four-block walk up to Hill Grade, Jim as a little guy would often try to follow me, sometimes escaping from the house in his diaper and bare feet. I'd take him back, knock on the door and Janet would retrieve him with an "O my" and a smile.
Janet's husband Harold, was a co-worker of my dad, Fred Hayen, at the Marion Post Office. Harold also was a pretty fair baseball player, I think I remember.
They attended the old EUB church down in the valley with my family. These were good people as I remember them. Those days get more vivid and warm as I grow older. I hope today's kids in Marion are building similar memories which will have meaning for them in the time ahead.
Have a great Christmas.
Jan Hayen
Lenexa
