Janet Rogers Enzmann was born in Springfield, Mass. on Oct. 14, 1925 to Frank Rogers and Gertrude Ward Rogers.

After her father’s death in 1931, she and her mother moved to nearby North Wilbraham, where her mother served as manager of the local telephone office.

Janet attended high school in Springfield, graduating summa cum laude in 1943. She graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1947 and returned to Springfield, where she received a master of education degree from Springfield College in 1949.

Following graduation, she was employed as a teen-age program director in the Providence, R.I. YWCA. She moved to Seattle in 1951 in the same capacity.

In 1953 she was briefly a policewoman in the juvenile division of the Seattle Police Department until her marriage in 1954 to Boeing engineer George Enzmann. The family moved up and down the West Coast in response to aircraft contracts. George retired in 1990 when they returned to the Northwest, settling in Coupeville in 1991.

Janet was an active member of the League of Women Voters for many years. She also served as both a paid and volunteer elementary school librarian. She had been active in Friends of the Library in all her places of residence. Her love of books and history led her to volunteer work at the Island County Historical Society Museum in Coupeville where she ultimately became its librarian/archivist. She was a founding member of the Genealogist Society (WIGS) and published several books tracing her Irish ancestry, as well as her husband’s German ancestors. She was active in the Coupeville Festival Association, especially with the Craft Booth Committee.

Janet is survived by her husband George; daughter Heidi Ontiveros; son Edward Enzmann; and granddaughter Celia Ontiveros.

Janet died of colon cancer in her home on Aug. 16, 2010, with her family at her side.

Arrangements are entrusted to Burley Funeral Chapel, where family and friends may go online to www.burleyfuneralchapel.com to sign a guest register and leave memories for the family.