Class of 1958
1958 Maroon Spotlight
Janice Starr
Band 55-56; Annual Staff 55-56; Homeroom Secretary-Treasurer 55-56.
1958 Graduation EditionPerry Daily Journal
Janice Kay Starr is the 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Smith, 1314 Fir avenue. She was born July 18, 1940, in Lucien. She plans to enroll at Oklahoma State university after graduation from PHS. Janice Kaye has attended schools in Chickasha, Lindsay, and Perry. She has been a member of the band, student council, glee club, Red Hots, and band queen attendant, and a homeroom officer. Home economics is her favorite subject in school.
Janice Kaye (Starr) Dolezal
July 18, 1940 – June 3, 2021
Janice Kay Starr Dolezal, 80, passed away June 3, 2021, in Tyler, TX. Born July 18, 1940, she grew up in Perry, Oklahoma, and was a graduate of Perry High School.
She attended airline school in St. Louis and upon graduation was hired by Frontier Airlines in Oklahoma City as a flight attendant. After receiving her one-year pin with Frontier, she married her high school sweetheart, best friend, and the love of her life, Dick, on September 3, 1960. They made their first home together in Pratt, Kansas, before Dick’s career with Halliburton led them to Tripoli, Libya, living there for 12 years before moving to Longview, TX, in 1977 and eventually retiring in Tyler, TX, at their dream home, The Farm, in 2004.
Jan was an incredibly gifted artist and craftswoman who took pleasure in creating and making things beautiful. She loved spending time in her garden, had a passion for genealogy, but most of all loved and took care of her family as our beloved Matriarch, our GeeGee. Her fierce devotion to her husband, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren is something we will carry with us always.
She is survived by her husband, Richard “Dick” Dolezal; her children, Rebecca Perkins, Angela (Mark) Collins, Julia Martin, and Douglas (Lisa) Dolezal; her grandchildren Seth (Marissa) Kasper, Maren (Jeff) Taylor, Skye Sutton, Courtney Martin, Alexandra (Hayden) Ashcraft, Brooke Perkins, and Brandon Martin; and her great-grandchildren, Tanner Taylor, Cooper and Henley Kasper, Sutton Dolezal, Sylvia Martin, Chloe and Titus Ragan, and Lilliana Ashcraft. She joins in heaven her father, Edmund Arthur Starr; mother, Loreita Smith; stepfather, William T. “Bill” Smith; and her sister, Jerri Pat McCracken, who preceded her.
A private gathering will be held by her family.