Janet Jenkins Prideaux

Janet Jenkins Prideaux, 87, of Johnston, passed away on October 11, 2023, at Ramsey Village.
Visitation will be on Friday, October 20, 4:00-6:00pm, at Iles Westover Funeral Home, 6337 Hickman Road in Des Moines. Funeral service will be held on Saturday, October 21, 10:00am, at First Baptist Church of Greater Des Moines, 8250 N.W. 62nd Ave. in Johnston. A luncheon will follow. Interment will be at Oak Grove Cemetery, Missouri Valley, at 2:30pm on Saturday.
Janet was born August 8, 1936, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the daughter of Glenn and Elva Dray Jenkins. She was a member of the 1954 graduating class of Thomas Jefferson High School in Council Bluffs and a 1958 graduate of Iowa State Teachers College (UNI). She earned her Master's Degree in Deaf Education at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Janet was a teacher of the deaf for 38 years, teaching at the Iowa School for the Deaf (Council Bluffs), Hope Haven School (Rock Valley), Crippled Children's Hospital and School (Sioux Falls, SD), and Des Moines Public Schools. She volunteered at church, at the VA Hospital, and for Heifer International.
She met Kenneth Prideaux (from Swampscott, MA) at church, and they were married in 1964. Janet was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Kenneth, and her daughter, Amy Prideaux. She is survived by her sons, Todd (Jodi) Prideaux (Des Moines), Corey (Amy "Brem" Bremers) Prideaux (Omaha, NE), her daughter, Michelle Prideaux (Windsor Heights), her granddaughters, Ashlea Prideaux, Rachel Prideaux, Hannah Prideaux, her grandsons, Trenton Prideaux, Micah Prideaux, Donovan Prideaux, and her great-grandson, Isaac Prideaux.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be directed to the Iowa School for the Deaf.
Janet's services will be live-streamed beginning at 9:55 a.m. at this link https://boxcast.tv/view/janet-prideaux-funeral-lhzndiu33xcnvofqw0fz
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