Monday, January 13, 2025
Janet Florence (Gotz) Larsen, age 88, of Orlando, Florida passed away on Sunday, December 1, 2024. She was born in Auburndale, WI on January 9, 1936 to parents William and Alma (Kroh) Gotz. She moved with her family to Marshfield, WI when her parents purchased a dairy farm there. Janet graduated from Marshfield High School in 1955 and graduated from St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing in May, 1958. She went on to marry the love of her life, Howard Larsen, on April 30, 1960.
Most of her nursing career was focused on industrial nursing where she worked at the paper mill in Wisconsin Rapids, Northern Pacific Railroad, S&C Electric in Chicago and a construction company of high-rise office buildings in downtown Chicago Loop. After moving from Chicago in 1972 to Dallas, Texas and in 1975 to Orlando Florida she continued to work for businesses and corporations in including Lakeland Orange Growers and Marriott hotels. Her nursing career concluded with processing workmen’s compensation claims.
Janet is preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Howard Larsen; brother, Clarence Gotz; sisters, Helen Ivanoff and Mary Handrick; sisters-in-law, Theresa Gotz and Helen Gotz. She is survived by her daughter, Nicole Larsen of Orlando, FL; Sheela Schermetzler (James) of Spearfish, SD; brother, Ronald Gotz of Marshfield, WI; brother-in-law, Glenn Larsen (Mary Lou) of Seattle WA and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.
A remembrance service will be held at a later time. Cremation occurred at the A Community Funeral Home & Sunset Cremations in Orlando, Florida.
