Janice Arleen Schachterle was born in Denver, Colorado on January 18th 1947 to parents Pastor Raymond and wife Margaret Schachterle. After birth she came home from the hospital to meet her sister Marjorie (Reid) and brother Gene Schachterle.
She went to Jesus’ House from Cox South on August 22, 2020 at 4 p.m. She is survived by one sister, Marjorie Reid and one brother, Gene Schachterle.
For the last many years she made her home at Maranatha and greatly loved this place and you people.
Gene’s Story
Janice grew up in a church start called Glad Tidings Tabernacle in Denver, Colorado. The growing congregation opened their arms to our whole family. The children were “adopted” and loved by the church family. There are no stories of rejection by the church. We flourished under them. All of us children were saved, water baptized and then baptized in the Holy Spirit as we grew in the Lord. All of us have ministered in various places. Janice spent two years of her life in Bangladesh doing God’s work.
She travelled in a gospel trio.
Her main occupation, from which she retired, was at AT&T.
I’m not sure what she did. She tried to explain it to me. She was somehow involved with keeping projects viable. There were a lot of people going and coming, constructing and fulfilling the plans at AT&T.
Janice was taller than most of her public school friends. She had a serious under-bite, solved by inserting a long silver tooth as one of the two front teeth. She was growing fast, so at times her skirt was sometimes short. That set off a song by her classmates: Silver tooth short skirt! In the process of time, we moved to another house in a different school district. NO “Janice” SONGS were sung there! She was received well and her academic life improved.
Her list of places she studied is long:
Ozark Bible Institute
Central Bible College
Rockmont College
A/G Theological Seminary
Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary
Parks School of Business
Janice was fascinated by tools. There were plenty of them because Dad and the church men constructed most of the church by hand. She knew how to fix things.
Love of people
Great love for music
She had a thirst for knowledge.
She loved to laugh and joke around.
She loved animals.
And she wanted to help people find new life in Christ.