Janet Mayo

Retired social worker

FRANKLIN - Janet (LaPlante) Mayo, 76, died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Jan. 31, 2010.

She was born on Oct. 31, 1933, in East Andover, the daughter of the late J. Benjamin and Dorothy (Hersey) LaPlante. She attended East Andover schools and was a graduate of Franklin High School and the University of New Hampshire. She earned a master's degree from Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

She was a clinical social worker in Cincinnati.

Janet was a longtime member of Knox Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati.

Janet's church and community activities included the Women's City Club, Community Healing Circle, Marriage Encounter, the Mt. Washington community association as well as writing social work columns for the Forest Hills Journal, Smith College and the newsletter for the Women's City Club.

Family members include her beloved husband of 50 years, Alton R. Mayo; daughter Laura Polster of Gahanna, Ohio; her husband, Marc, and their three children, Leah, Ethan, and Anna; son A. Kent Mayo of Bethesda, Md.; his wife, Ann, and their three children, Emily, Guy, and Will; four sisters, Helen Duchesne of Bristol, Irene Hoffmann, Indianapolis, Ind., Margaret Paquette, Laconia, and Rita Norander, Westford, Mass.; and one brother, J. Benjamin LaPlante Jr. of Boscawen.

She was predeceased by her sister, Eleanor Kehoe of Norwich, N.Y.

Family and friends were received at a memorial service at Knox Presbyterian Church on Saturday, Feb. 6. The Elden Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Memorials may be sent to the School for Social Work, Attn: David Brown, Building Lilly, No. 103, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063.