Janet Engelbart

Janet Engelbart, 86, died Thursday, July 31, 2025, at Pinicon Senior Living.

Funeral services will be held 1:00 Saturday afternoon, August 16, 2025, at the Wayne Zion Lutheran Church rural Monticello, with interment in the Wayne Zion Cemetery. Friends may call after 11:00 on Saturday at the church. Goettsch Funeral Home has taken Janet and her family into their care.

Surviving are 2 sons, Jeff (Teresa) and Russ (Penny), 7 grandchildren, Ashley (Chad) Rohdy, Jennie (Lucas) Meyer, Amy (Ryan) Humlick, Jacklyn (Andrew Quinlisk) Engelbart, Katie Grassi, Anthony Engelbart and Jacob Engelbart and 6 great-grandchildren, Blakelyn and Mackson Meyer, Ellory and Everett Rohdy, Hayes Humlick, and Christian Quinlisk, her sisters, Betty Hartman (Charles) and family and Shirley Borkgren and family. She was preceded in death by her parents, Otto and Berdina (Harms) Steuri, her husband, Galen, Daughter Connie and husband Gary Grassi, brother-in-law Ron Borkgren, and her committed partner, Chris Holmes.

Janet Arlene Steuri was born October 19, 1938, at John McDonald Hospital, Monticello, Iowa, the daughter of Otto and Berdina Harms Steuri. Janet attended the Center Junction Schools and graduated from Olin High School. She grew up just outside of Center Junction on a farm with early mornings milking cows before school. Her one allowed sport was basketball after school. She married Galen Engelbart on November 18, 1956. She then went to work at Collins Radio in the White Room, where she spoke often of the white gloves and sterile environment. The couple started Lasso E RV by renting out their pick-up camper they owned for additional income to supplement the farm. Lasso E Camper Sales officially started operating in 1960 where Janet could be found both wiring up, loading, and selling campers. Janet continued to work at Collins Radio until 1963, when she went full-time at the camper sales. Galen and Janet then operated the business with the help of their 3 children raising 3 generations. Later in life, she worked at Kum and Go in Monticello and Cascade Die Mold.

Janet was very active at Wayne Zion Lutheran Church, serving on the church council, part of the Quilters group and helped organize the giving tree. Janet enjoyed helping with the Harvest Festival where she would prepare and donate 200 pounds of sweet corn every year. Her children, grandchildren, sister Shirley and nieces enjoyed helping her pick, cook and prepare buckets of corn with her every year. Janet loved coming to the church to cook the corn and help in the kitchen for the event. Janet spent many hours sewing and made all of her grandchildren wedding ring bearer pillows for their future wedding. She was a member of the Amber Domestic Engineers and served as Grand Chief of the Pythian Sisters.

Janet loved to play Euchre and taught all her grandchildren to play. She enjoyed baking (her famous kolaches) and being outdoors, hunting, fishing (especially trips to Lake Pepin with family) She loved to garden, and watch the bird and wildlife. Janet was always active and a do-it-yourselfer. She would drive tractors, trucks and pull campers. Janet could cook anything and make it taste great. She raised chickens, ducks, caught snapping turtles. She taught all of the grandchildren how to clean wild game, tend to the gardens and orchard. She fed wildlife, attended barn dances, hosted many family gatherings preparing large family meals. She enjoyed the adventure of floating the river, riding motorcycle and snowmobiles. She traveled many places including a bucket list trip to Alaska. Janet could often be seen on her John Deere 5-wheeler working on her acreage. Janet was a huge supporter and attended many of her grandchildren's school activities at Anamosa. She will be dearly missed and remembered as a woman of God/servant, mother and grandmother, outdoorswoman, community member, and friend.

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