Janet Heiliger

Madison/Cambridge- Janet Eisele Heiliger, 91, passed away peacefully of natural causes on October 5, 2014. "Rosie" as she was fondly known by many, was born (Janet Martha Monsen) May 2, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois to Myron T. Monsen and Jeanette (Bratson) Monsen. After graduating from Nicholas Senn High School in 1941 she attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where in 1942 she pledged and became an active member of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority, for which she subsequently received a crescent badge for 50 golden years of membership in Gamma Phi Beta. She later served on the Pan Hellenic Council and in 1986-87 was the local Gamma Phi Beta Alumni President. At the UW she met her future husband Karl A. Eisele, Jr. and they were married in Boise, Idaho in 1944 prior to his flying overseas as a bombardier/navigator on B-24s.
Following WWII he returned to Madison where they raised five boys in a loving family. They had many good friends and good years together, with the family enjoying summer vacations on Lake Ripley and she always was there to support her sons. Following the death of Karl in 1988, she married Howard Heiliger of Fort Atkinson in 1993. She had known Heiliger as a teenager spending summers at Lake Ripley in Cambridge and they enjoyed 18 years together and spent the summers at Lake Ripley and the winters at Fountain Hills, Arizona until his death in 2011. Janet was a member of the Lake Ripley Country Club and a member of Oakland-Cambridge Presbyterian Church. In 2011, Janet moved to Sebring Assisted Care in Madison.
She was preceded in death by her parents Myron and Jeanette Monsen, her brothers Myron, Jr. and Gordon Monsen, her husband Karl A. Eisele, Jr., her second husband Howard B. Heiliger, and her son Todd P. Eisele.
She is survived by her sons Timothy (Linda) Eisele, Thomas (Sandra) Eisele, Theodore (Shelley) Eisele, and T. Michael (Karen Janousek) Eisele, and nine grand-children and two great grand-children, and the three children of Howard Heiliger (Patricia Parker, Michael (Roxanne) Heiliger, and Gail (Greg) Vorlob).
Janet Eisele Heiliger was an energetic, well-loved wife and mother who supported her five sons, and finally "had girls" when she gained wonderful daughters-in-law. The family acknowledges the caring staff at Sebring Assisted Care Memory Care Center and Agrace Hospice.
A funeral service will be held at OAKLAND CAMBRIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 313 East Main St, Cambridge, on Friday, October 10, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. Visitation will be held at CRESS FUNERAL HOME, 3610 Speedway Rd., Madison, on Thursday, October 9, 2014, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. and at church on Friday from 10:00 a.m. until the time of service. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the American Macular Degeneration Foundation, the South Central Wisconsin Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, or the Todd P. Eisele Scholarship at UW-Stevens Point College of Natural Resources.

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