Janet Nicklas

Janet was very social and had many, many friends through the years. She enjoyed painting, knitting and crocheting. Janet was a fighter who survived a quintuple bypass, broken ribs/collarbone in one fall, a broken femur in another fall, skin cancer, and COVID. She was born April 12, 1923 in Syracuse, NY to Gladys Dorothee (Lemp) Fink and Peter Thomas Fink as the oldest of three siblings. As a child she moved often (21 times in 21 years) which taught her to make friends quickly. She graduated from Bennett High School in Buffalo, NY and worked as a telephone operator. She married her husband, James Phillip Nicklas of Buffalo, NY, on September 9, 1950 and they built their first house in Buffalo themselves. Her daughter, Janice, was born in 1953. The family moved to Woodland Hills, CA in 1959 for the warmer weather. After her daughter went off to college, Janet worked as an executive secretary for several years and also worked as a volunteer at the local hospital running the gift shop. Janet was married for 60 years to Jim, who pre-deceased her in January of 2011, and after his death she moved to an assisted living facility near their home in Woodland Hills. Janet was predeceased by her sister, Mary Margaret Anne (Fink) Kelley and her brother Gordon Peter Fink. She is survived by her daughter, Janice A. Nicklas, and two grandchildren, Evan and Krysta Dummit, her niece Donna (Janet’s brother Gordon’s daughter) and her family, her niece Susie and her four sons, Tim, Sean, Erin and Ryan and their families as well as many more nieces and nephews and their families on Jim’s side of the family