Janice Montgomery Kulbeth

Janice Montgomery Kulbeth, born Dec. 29, 1936, departed this life and went home on Dec. 23, 2014 in Monticello. In her early years, she was employed by Burlington Industries and retired from the United States Post Office with 25 years of service. She enjoyed fishing with Uncle Pete and was a very talented artist and seamstress. She had a love of flowers and gardening and was a competitive bowler for years and held many records and state titles. She had numerous friends and patrons through her many years of serving as a rural mail carrier and went above and beyond to make them happy. She was known best as "Aunt Jan" to all of southeast Arkansas as everyone in her many nieces' and nephews' lives also considered her to be family and she loved them as well, and she called herself "one of the twins." She was preceded in death by her parents, J.B. and Mary Effie Montgomery; four brothers, Louis Montgomery, Norman Montgomery, Hollis Montgomery and Bobby Joe Montgomery; six sisters, Lenora Cunningham, Reba Huskey, Jamie Trotter, Francis Mathis, Martha Jean Stephenson and her twin, Joyce Person. She is survived by a sister, June Stephenson of Brazoria, Texas, and a niece and her family that she considered her own, Toni Person and her children, Jonathan and Becca Greenwood and son, J.B. of the Valley Community, Sgt. Bobby L. Person and wife, Meagan of Okinawa, Japan, Jodi Person and fiancé, Jonathan Ash and children, Jayce-Allen and Josi Ash of Monticello and Bradi Shirey of Monticello. And, numerous generations of nieces and nephews that she loved dearly. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in her memory and in honor of her great-great niece Josi Ash to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 1501 North Pierce St. Suite, 114, Little Rock, AR 72207 as this was her wish. Funeral service will be 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 27 at Stephenson-Dearman Funeral Home, with burial in Andrews Chapel Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Online guestbook: www.stephensondearman.com.