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Janice June (Hirst) Allmon

1937-2025

HANOVERTON — Janice June (Hirst) Allmon, 87, peacefully transitioned to heaven early Monday, Feb. 3, 2025 at her home, surrounded by her loving husband, son, and daughter.

Janice was born June 4, 1937 at her family home in Fox Township, Ohio, a daughter of the late Jim and Pauline (Metts) Hirst, and had lived all of her life in the Salineville-Guilford Lake area. In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by her brothers, Harold and Eugene Hirst, and by her sister, Evelyn (Hirst) Smith.

A 1955 graduate of Carrollton High School, Janice worked 18 years with the Citizens Banking Company in Salineville and also in home daycare where she had helped raise many children in the area. She was a member of the Bethesda Presbyterian Church in Hanoverton, taugh Sunday School, sang in the choir with a beautiful soprano voice and always enjoyed singing in the Easter and Christmas Contata’s.

She was a member of the Gideon Auxiliary; Eastern Star; and was a wonderful cook and baker, especially her pies. Janice and her husband, Tom, enjoyed traveling throughout the country and overseas to visit their son and family wherever he was stationed and her daughter and family while in Florida, but most of all she treasured spending time with all children.

Janice is survived and will be dearly missed by her loving husband, Tom Allmon, whom she married Sept. 9, 1955, and shared a living example of love and commitment to one another for 70 years; her two children, Tom (Sheree) Allmon of Richmond Hill, Ga., and Lori (Mark) Allmon Hogue of Medina, Ohio; her sister, Helen Bondurant of Eden, N.C.; her six grandchildren, Allison (Josh) Allmon Dixson, Lyndsey Hogue, Katlyn (Danny) Allmon Rabideau, Lizabeth Hogue, Thomas Allmon, and Matthew Hogue; her six great-grandchildren, Saige Hogue, Finley Allmon Dixson, Beckett Hogue, Maggie Allmon Dixson, Callen Allmon Rabideau and Evolette Hogue; as well as many nieces, nephews, and other family members and friends.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025 at the Eells-Leggett-Stauffer Funeral Home with Pastor Phil Bartholomew officiating. Burial will follow at the Mechanicstown Cemetery.

The family will receive guests from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Young Life organization, which Janice and Tom have supported since inception in Columbiana County at Young Life- Columbiana County, 37853 State Route 39, Salineville, OH 43945 or to the Gideons International, where she was a member of the Auxiliary and her husband is a Gideon at www.gideons.org.

Friends may also view Janice’s memorial tribute page, share a memory, and leave condolences at www.eells-leggett-stauffer.com.

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