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JANICE HOWE RAPER Janice Howe Raper passed away peacefully on Sunday, March 4th at Lenbrook Square in Atlanta. Graveside memorial services will be held 1:00 P.M. Saturday March 10, 2007, at the Roosevelt Warm Springs Foundation Cemetery in Warm Springs, Georgia. Mrs. Raper was born in Barbour County, West Virginia on September 12, 1908. Her parents were Inez Pepper Howe of Salem, West Virginia and Harry Howe, a native of England. She grew up in Gadsden, Alabama where her father owned a printing company. She attended Huntington College in Montgomery, Alabama and graduated from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1930 with a degree in Physical Education and a certificate in Physical Therapy which she earned while on the Peabody program with the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation's polio rehabilitation program in Warm Springs, Georgia. She held one of the first licenses for Physical Therapy in Georgia and was acquainted with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Warm Springs before he became President. While at Warm Springs she married Dr. Hal Stuart Raper, Sr. who was director of Internal Medicine for the Warm Springs Foundation and a native of Mississippi. The couple remained in Warm Springs until after Dr. Raper retired and moved to Atlanta in 1986 to be close to their grandchildren. Janice had a lifelong love for the woods and wildflowers and was often seen wandering the trails of Pine Mountain with her boxer dog looking for rare native plants. She was a collector of primitive antiques and was an early attendee of the Antiques Forum in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was a member of the Chapel at the Warm Springs Foundation and the First Presbyterian Church of Manchester, Georgia. In her later years she was a resident of Lenbrook Square in Atlanta where she lived with her devoted miniature dachshund, Mozart. She is survived by her son, Hal Stuart (Toby) Raper, Jr., DDS, her daughter-in-law, Cathy Childress Raper, and her grandchildren, Stuart W. Raper and C. Pepper Raper. In lieu of flowers donations may be sent to the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation (RWSIR) Development Fund, PO Box 1050, Warm Springs, Ga 31830 or the Trinity United Methodist Church, Atten: Betty Mitcham, 1897 Crowder Rd, Warm Springs, Ga. 31830. Smith-Steele-Meadows Funeral Home, Manchester, Ga., is in charge of arrangements. (706)846-3131.
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Sally Parker Gutzke
March 12, 2007
I wanted to let you know the fond memories I have of Mrs. Raper. My sister and I had polio and although I had little paralysis, she has been in a wheel chair from age 5. I can't remember the exact years, but my mother and I spend several summers renting rooms on the foundation while my sister had surgeries. We were from Birmingham.I have no idea how I met Mrs. Raper, but I remember her kindness to me. I must have been about 12 when I remember spending an afternoon at her house making brownies. She was so warm and friendly to me that I have this small memory still tucked inside. I turned 60 last month, so it was clearly a significant afternoon for me. If memory serves, I still have that brownie recipe. She was a special lady. I trust that the Lord will give you comfort in your loss.
Nina Joe and Mike Byrd
March 9, 2007
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Dr. (Toby) Raper and family at this time of sadness. Your mother was a very special lady. How we do remember Mrs. Raper and Dr. Pat too! It was one of those warm sunny Sunday afternoons in the spring time that three of us physical therapists were wandering through the woods where we lived on the grounds of the Foundation. Dr. and Mrs. Raper were in their back yard working with their flowers. We were greeted and engaged in a friendly chat. Of course we heard about their favorite son, Toby, the dentist. This association has lasted over thirty years. I'm glad were were able to keep in touch all these years. Mike and I remember other times of visiting when we would return to Warm Springs. It was if we were drawn to seek out their friendship. Just something about them we loved. Mrs. Raper will always be remembered as a very special lady in our hearts. God bless the Raper family.
Kevin Murphree
March 9, 2007
I would like to express my condolences to the Raper family.
Aunt Jan and Dr. Pat were our neighbors when we lived in Warm Springs from 1962 until we moved in 1975.
They were lovely kind people who embraced our family as their own.
God Bless Aunt Jan.
frank Longshore
March 8, 2007
I have been showing family and friends the Winter '07 issue of Raper's Remedies, with the item about Warm Springs and Hal's 98-year-old mother. I am saddened to hear that Mrs. Raper has since passed on. Please accept my condolences.
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Dr. and Mrs.A. Connor Higgins
March 8, 2007
Jo Ann and I would like for Toby and family to realize how much we loved Jan and Dr. Pat. Not only were they dear friends but also our next door neighbors at "The Foundation".We have such wonderful memories.She will always be in our hearts.
Connor Higgins
March 7, 2007
We lived next door to "Aunt Jan" and "Dr. Pat" for a number of years at the GA Warm Springs Foundation when my siblings and I were very young. My father came there as a Physiatry resident in 1962 and we were there until 1975). "Aunt Jan" and "Dr. Pat" always welcomed the Higgins family into their lives and home and we shared many wonderful Christmases and Thanksgiving celebrations on Oak Road. I'll always have fond memories of those times and the wonderful people that they were.
I'd like to express my heartfelt sympathy to the family at this very sad time. God Bless this especially dear and wonderful lady.
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