Eulogy for Jan Henshall
10/8/1945 – 14/1/2015

Jan, A great character, generous, kind and always good humored. Her frequent and bountiful luncheons were memorable and will be sorely missed.

Her love of Spain and the Spaniards was life long and endeared her to the native population. She was immensely devoted to ways of helping the planet survive and grew ecological fruit and vegetables on the farm she worked with her partner Richard.

Jan always had a spare room for her various friends from different countries and her hospitality was legend. 

She leaves a lovely family of a son, a daughter and two very young grandchildren.

She was a quiet but immensely strong influence on her wide circle of friends and we all wish she had stayed bit longer.

I think a phrase from the end of her favorite novel Middlemarch by George Eliot can be appropriately applied to her character:  “…the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

We miss you, Jan!

Anna DiGesu