Janice A. Schulz, aged 88 of Granville, passed away peacefully on December 2nd, at Wesley Woods Retirement Community in New Albany.

Janice was born on October 14, 1937, in Garden City, Michigan to Mark and Rose Hearn. She attended Roosevelt high school in Dearborn, Michigan where she was a cheerleader, a class officer and where she met her high-school sweetheart, Gerald Schulz. They were married on September 8, 1956 and celebrated 68 years of marriage before Gerald passed in 2024. Janice was a homemaker and loving, Christian faith-based mother to her three boys. In addition to her dedication to her children, Janice also volunteered as church secretary and was an active volunteer to their different Church families. Janice enjoyed cooking, knitting, needlework, and was especially proud of her efforts to start and maintain her prayer shawl ministry. Her "pocket" prayer shawl concept has even been featured in a published prayer shawl ministry book. Janice has touched many lives with her kind efforts and loving dedication and she will be remembered and missed by those she touched.

Over the years, Janice was able to enjoy traveling with Gerry on business and in retirement, she and Gerry were able to travel internationally and made annual trips to visit each of their sons & families in North Carolina, Minnesota, and Michigan. They continued to live independently at their home in rural Granville until the spring of 2017, when they moved to Wesley Woods Retirement Community.

Janice was preceded in death by her husband Gerald Schulz; parents, Mark and Rose Hearn as well as her brother, Roy Hearn. She is survived by her sons, Mike (Jackie), Jim (Diana) and Tom (Marsha); grandchildren, Mathew, Emily, Meredith (Stuart Grant), Adam, Lexie (Tanner Sparrow), Elizabeth, Jack; and great grandchild Parker Sparrow.

No immediate funeral services are planned. A private family memorial service will be held at a later date.