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Janice died Thursday, February 19, Oklahoma City, after a courageous five-month battle with lung cancer.
Janice was born on December 1, 1942 in Oklahoma City. She graduated from Harding High School in 1960 and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in special education in 1964 from
the University of Oklahoma where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta Social Sorority. She received a Master of Science in Special Education from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1975. She married Tom Laughlin August 8, 1978.
Janice taught special education in the Oklahoma City School System for 27 years, 5 years at Shidler Elementary and 22 years at Capitol Hill High School. She touched many lives as her entire career was devoted to teaching students with learning disabilities from underprivileged backgrounds. Her cancer symptoms began just three weeks after retiring from the teaching career she loved so dearly. Janice had a special love for all children and for animals. Janice was very well read and loved to travel.
Her father, Comer Rollins, preceded Janice in death. She is survived by her loving husband, Tom Laughlin of OKC; mother, Gladys Rollins of OKC; daughter and son-in-law, Shellie and Don Greiner of Edmond; son, Jay Smith of OKC; brother and sister-in-law, Bob and Carlene
Rollins of OKC; brother and sister-in-law, Richard and Gloria Rollins of Edmond; sister-in-law, Linda Hill of OKC; grandchildren, Joseph, Simon and Mary Jesse Greiner of Edmond; four nieces and three nephews; and many other relatives and friends.
A memorial service was held Mon., February 23, at Belle Isle Community Church, 2600 NW 55th Place in Okla.City at 3:00 p.m.
"Twinkle toes" was truly a gift to all that knew her. She was the most genuinely sweet, sincere person any of us ever knew. She was an angel on earth who left us much too soon, and will be missed dearly by all of us.
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Sue Padgett (Schools)
Janice Rollins (Twink) was a mascot majorette in grade school ... an adorable little girl with a wonderful doll collection who grew into an adorable teenager with a sweet disposition and gentle, laughing attitude. We pledged Tri Delt at OU together and then lost contact. Jan Gill told me she died of cancer, too early, and left a husband who was inconsolable ... another gentle soul taken too soon.Sue Padgett Schools