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[Brd̜erbund WFT Vol. 12, Ed. 1, Tree #4041, Date of Import: 22 Jun 1998]Stu wrote us on December 4, 1993. "With a sad heart....." he wrote to inform us of his daughter's death. He enclosed the following:
OBITUARY. JANET MARIE VENABLE HAD A SPECIAL SMILE. By Theresa Viloria, Staff Writer.
She was known as "Giggles" to her close pals, and others who knew Janet Marie Venable were always cheered by her smiles.
Venable was only 41 when she died Friday, but her father, Stuart Venable, said her life was always full of activity.
Venable was born in Alton, Ill., on October 4, 1952 with cerebral palsy. Her family moved to Long Beach in 1961, where Venable attended Tucker School, a special school for mentally and physically disabled children.
She was 18 when she graduated from Tucker , and she lived at home for 10 years before she decided to strike out on her own to live in Sylmar at a United Cerebral Palsy home.
A couple of years later, she moved to another United Cerebral Palsy home on 105th Street in Los Angeles.
"It was a marvelous sight to see her whizzing up and down the halls of that building," said her father.
"She drove her electric wheelchair with her chin, she typed with a special stick in her mouth, and she loved reading," he said.
In 1988, Venable learned to paint, and with a brush in her mouth, she won second place in a statewide competition.
She suffered some health problems in 1993 and eventually underwent kidney surgery, an operation from which she never fully recovered.
Venable spent her final weeks in a nursing home. But though her health was failing, she was able to give visitors the special smile for which she will always be remembered.
Venable is survived by her parents, Stuart and Betty Ann Venable; sisters, Barbara Olson and Nancy Van Goethen; brother, Stuart Jr.; nephews, Daniel and Bandon; and niece, Amanda.
Services will be held today at 10:30 a.m. at Forest Lawn Cypress in the Church of Our Fathers.