Janet Ann Mattix

MIDDLETON-Janet Ann Mattix (nee Dederich), 92, passed away peacefully on May 15, 2011 at Clare Bridge, Middleton, WI. Janet was born April 23, 1919 in Marathon City, WI, the first of seven children born to Lawrence \"Ted\" and Grace (nee Thering) Dederich. In 1927 her family moved back to Sauk County where her father owned and operated the Cold Springs Cheese Factory. She attended the Loretto one room school, St. Luke\'s Catholic School in Plain and graduated Spring Green High School in 1936. That fall she enrolled in the accelerated teacher training program at Sauk County Normal where she met fellow student and her lifelong love Lloyd Mattix. They were married April 6, 1942 at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, MO. She was an office employee with various companies, including the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company, Mobile, AL, as Lloyd trained on various bases stateside. They moved to Middleton in 1951 and then to the rural homes Lloyd built in the Town of Springfield. She taught in several Sauk County one-room schools, was employed in the payroll office with University Extension and skillfully managed the books for their construction business. Janet played fast-pitch softball into her 50\'s, and later golf. She pitched the State Championship winning game for Reedsburg at the 1939 Wisconsin State Fair. She and Lloyd took up golf in their 60\'s and enjoyed playing various courses around the state and Florida. She loved to golf, won a championship at Blackhawk Country Club and scored a Hole-in-One. Janet loved animals and her family was blessed with horses, cats and dogs growing up. She was fabulous at bridge, an avid reader and never stopped learning. Her homemade pies and jelly were out of this world. She was kind and loving, had a great sense of humor, loved to laugh and most of all a great person. Janet is survived by Lloyd, her loving husband of 69 years, children Tim (Mary) Mattix, Cross Plains, Susan Mattix, Madison and Robert Mattix, Cross Plains, 8 grandchildren Jessica Mattix, Katie (Justin) Blanchar, Timothy, Sarah and Laura Mattix, Benjamin (Sara) Braydon, and Allison and Janna Mattix, two great granddaughters Carlyn and Autumn Blanchar, two brothers Carl (Georgia) Dederich, and Gerard (Pat) Dederich, a sister Joan (Harry Gwynne) McArthur, sister-in-law Virginia \"Ginny\" Dederich, as well as many nieces and nephews, relatives and friends. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by a daughter Jennifer Scott in 2008, brothers Paul (Irene) and Lawrence \"Lorry\", a sister Dorothy Dederich, parents-in-law Ralph and Josephine \"Sophie\" Mattix, brother-in-law Richard (Edith) Mattix and sister-in-law LaRetta (Ralph) Hearn. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at ST. BERNARD CATHOLIC CHURCH, 7450 University Ave., Middleton, at 11:00 AM on Friday, May 20, 2011, with Monsignor Douglas Dushack presiding. Burial will be in St. Patrick\'s Catholic Cemetery in Loreto, WI. Visitation will be on Thursday, May 19, 2011 from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM at the GUNDERSON WEST FUNERAL AND CREMATION CARE, 7435 University Ave., Middleton and also on Friday from 10:00 AM until the time of the service at the church. Cemetery: Burial will be in St. Patrick\'s Catholic Cemetery in Loreto, WI Visitation: Visitation will be on Thursday, May 19, 2011 from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM at the GUNDERSON WEST FUNERAL AND CREMATION CARE, 7435 University Ave., Middleton and also on Friday from 10:00 AM until the time of the service at the church Service: A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at ST. BERNARD CATHOLIC CHURCH, 7450 University Ave., Middleton, at 11:00 AM on Friday, May 20, 2011, with Monsignor Douglas Dushack presiding.