Shirley Jan, 86, passed away on Dec. 1, 2017, from natural causes after a courageous multi-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease, at the Annapolitan Assisted Living Center in Annapolis, Maryland.

She was born to Corrie and Ruth Bagley Hanson on May 9, 1931, in Austin, Minnesota. She graduated from high school in 1949, and took a one-year x-ray technician training at Minneapolis General Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She received her certified chiropractic assistant training at Johns-Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. On Sept. 9, 1951, she married Lloyd V. Jan in Austin.

After spending a year as an x-ray technician at Anchor Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, Shirley, the mother of five and wife of a U.S. Army Green Beret, traveled the globe for 20 years, living at numerous Army bases across the U.S., France and Japan.

She worked as a certified chiropractic assistant in Severna Park, Maryland, for nearly a decade, and completed her career as a medical record transcriptionist in Annapolis.

She enjoyed cooking, quilting, needlepoint and sewing of all kinds, church choir, scenery and costume design for the Colonial Players of Annapolis, and traveling the world.

Shirley is lovingly remembered by daughters Lisa Jan of McHenry, Maryland, and MaryEllen Seehafer (Erich) of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia; son, Eric Jan (Deborah) of Annapolis; grandchildren, Bryan Jan, Lauren Hill, Reade Harbitter, Evin Harbitter, Roxanne Harbitter, 1st Lt. Ryan Jan, USAF, Ensign Kaitlyn Jan, USN, and Kelly Jan; five great-grandchildren; sister, Charlotte Braaten of Blooming Prairie, Minnesota; and her brother, Raeburn Hanson (Patricia) of Waltham, Minnesota.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Lloyd V. Jan, MAJ USA of Severna Park; her son, Kolin, CAPT USN of Ridgeway, West Virginia; daughter, Karen R. Jan of West Palm Beach, Florida; and her granddaughter, Jessica Hill of Lorton, Virginia.

Services will be held in May 2018 in Austin.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, online at http://act.al.org/goto/smjan1931.