Janice Ann (Utt) Hoag

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the First United Methodist Church.

Visitation will be 3 to 8 p.m. Friday at Swisher-Taylor & Morris Funeral Home, with the family greeting friends from 6:30 to 7:30.

Memorials are to Winfield First Baptist Church Endowment Fund or to Shiloh Christian Children’s Ranch, P.O. Box 606, Shelbina, MO 63468-9900.

Condolences may be sent to [email protected].

Jan was born May 29, 1935, in the rural Hoosier area of Cowley County. to John Bernard and Beatrice Adeline (Hall) Utt. The family purchased a farm between Cambridge and Dexter in 1941. She attended school at Gospel Ridge for first through fifth grades and attended school in Cambridge from sixth grade until graduation from Cambridge High School.

On Dec. 23, 1953, she married Stuart Hoag at the First Baptist Church in Dexter. They lived in Texas, Maine, Nevada, Mississippi and Europe before Stuart retired from the United States Air Force.

Jan retired from Kelly AFB, San Antonio, Texas, in 1990, but continued working as an annuitant through Operation Desert Storm. During her career with the Air Force, she worked at Keesler AFB, Miss., Stead AFB, Nev., Laredo AFB, Texas, Lackland AFB, Texas, Randolph AFB, Texas, Kelly AFB, Texas, and Ramstein AB, Germany. She worked in the electronic training center, military, personnel, transportation and supply and worked extensively in human resources in staffing of positions, classification of positions, labor relations, resource management, training of employees and employee relations including awards, discipline and customer service.

She worked extensively as a management consultant in court cases at both the local and national level. For several years, she worked for Hq USAF in the Logistics Career Program where she helped draft processes and procedures for career programs and for identifying and training high potential employees for senior leader positions.

She served on the team that worked with universities and colleges throughout the United States to identify high achiever candidates for federal employment. In this capacity, she interviewed and hired engineers, analysts, management information specialists and various other logistic trainees and made several recruiting/interviewing trips to Wichita State University.

While working within the Logistics Career Field, she served as a quality assurance supervisor and again was in the Wichita area dealing with AF contracts with Boeing and with GE repair services at Wellington.

Her final assignment prior to retirement was in the Aircraft Directorate which did maintenance and repair of B-52s and C-5s plus acquisition of the C-17, special programs to bring on the new Fighter/Trainer/Bomber aircraft, and servicing of the Foreign Military Affairs contracts with allied nations contract aircraft. She was responsible for the budget, personnel, supplies and facilities to support the Aircraft Directorate.

After retirement, she worked as a volunteer with the Federal Women’s Program to develop training sessions to identify women in low paying jobs with potential for upward mobility and to train mentors to work with these women to establish career goals and career paths to achieve those goals. She continued to conduct training session in interviewing techniques and dressing for success. She was active in her Homeowner Association where she recruited volunteers for the many tasks associated with maintaining a large number of common amenities for over 750 homes/families. She was instrumental in publishing a directory of residents/phone numbers and in fundraising to finance the association.

In 1995, the family moved to Winfield. Jan continued to be active in community affairs, working on political campaigns of local candidates, and working on a variety of projects in her church and taught her Sunday school class at First Baptist Church. She worked for several years in education. She helped cook for Boy Scout dinners, the Second Baptist Church annual picnic, Cambridge alumni, Winfield Arts and Humanities Council special events and many other special projects.

She has been on the board of directors for the Winfield Thrift Shop and has been active in support of the Salvation Army. She was a member of First United Methodist Church and a member of the Anna Ruth Circle. She enjoyed quilting, working in stained glass, music, drama and her many friends and family.

She attended St John’s College, University of Maine, University of Southern Mississippi, St. Mary’s University and received a bachelor of arts degree in management from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. She was a member of Delta Mu Delta. She was a life member of National Association of Retired & Active Federal Employees (NARFE), Air Force Association, Federal Employees Association and Kelly Heritage. She was a life member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and active in the local Peleg Gorton Chapter. She was especially close to her Red Hat card-playing group.

In addition to her parents, Jan was preceded in death by her brother, Charles “Rick” Utt.

Survivors include her husband, Stuart Hoag; son, David Hoag, and wife, Lucy, Gilbert, Ariz.; daughter, Teresa Hoag, Callao, Mo.; 13 grandchildren, James and Elizabeth Hoag, Brandy and Wyatt Cornwell, Lyda Marie, Frank and Yancey Dryer; Neil, Shawn, Joyce, Sandra, Leyna and Mandy O’Quinn; seven great-grandchildren, Janice Angellina Hoag, Sagen Stanley, Kaden and Carter Wood, Ray Snyder, Ava and Jude O’Quinn; special friends, Paul and Sally Zuniga, and children, Laredo, Texas; former daughter-in-law, Lori Hoag; brother, Gary Utt, and wife, Julie, Winfield; sister, Nancy “Jody” Odell, and husband, Bob, Winfield; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.