Janet Virginia Frey passed away Saturday, July 7th, 2018, at the age of 61. Born in Levittown, PA to the late Richard Frey and Virginia (nee Woodward), Janet always had a love for rocks. In college, she spent several months in Australia studying Geology and eventually graduated from Temple University with a Masters Degree in Environmental Science. Janet also enjoyed running, once completing the Boston Marathon, and loved the outdoors. She was an adventurous and passionate person in every endeavor she experienced from rock climbing to riding her motorcycle or her horse, Redneck.
Janet is survived by her loving children, Cassie (Jeff) Porrini and Ejeon Lemaitre, and her brother, Kenny (Debbie) Frey. She is also survived by several aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Family and friends are invited to Janet’s Life Celebration on Saturday, July 14th, from 11 AM – 12 PM, followed by her Memorial Service at 12 PM, at Emilie United Methodist Church, 7300 New Falls Rd., Levittown, PA 19055.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Malvern Institute.
Services provided by Beck Givnish Life Celebration Home, 7400 New Falls Rd., Levittown, PA 19055.
We gardeners miss Janet, she was a firebrand, a leader with conscience and grace, and she knew her stuff. She showed up a few years ago and basically whipped our laissez faire garden and gardeners into shape. But nicely. She was a strong woman and a role model to all who knew her. But she faced horrors in her private life.
That year in the garden was a seminal year, it was the year we plowed all of it and Janet was right there wrestling with the tough work of that job, she had a hand in helping to redesign the layout and carting logs to outline each of our growing beds, carting and spreading our soil implementation, she designed the way we would plant and re-plant, we learned about complementary plants together and had fun discovering the flowers that keep the bugs away from our organic garden.
We will miss her passion for life, her beauty, and her keen scientist’s intelligence.