Martha Janine Golliher Neal

March 26, 1953 – September 24, 2008

Janine Golliher submitted this narrative to our 1971-1991 Panther Tales:

I have been married for 14 years – living the majority between Boulder and Ft. Collins, making Ft. Collins my permanent home. I have 2

children, Tristan, age 10 and Travis, age 7. We’ve all enjoyed growing together and enjoying life fully. Bob, my husband, is employed with Hewlett Packard in Loveland as a software engineer. I’m volunteering 5 or more hours a day at my children’s elementary school as a teacher aide and really loving it. I’ve had some great experiences with all the different children.

We’re still working on our home and acre lot when we get free time. Like everyone, the work is never done. Hope to keep the family strong and together through all the future years. Hope to travel Colorado more.

Fondest memory: Meeting and making some terrific classmates and friends. Worst memory: Losing contact with some terrific classmates.

This is a reprint of Janine Golliher’s obituary:

Martha Janine Golliher Neal of Fort Collins, formerly of Boulder, died Wednesday September 24, 2008 at her home after valiantly fighting ovarian cancer since her diagnosis in 2005.

Janine was born March 26, 1953 in Boulder to Willa Jean and Kenneth Golliher. She graduated Boulder High in 1971. On February 19, 1977 she married Robert Neal and they moved to Fort Collins to raise their family. Janine is best known in Fort Collins for working first as a volunteer, and then as a paraprofessional at Johnson Elementary. Janine enjoyed making jewelry, reading with her granddaughter Ada, and walking her dog Kenny.

She is survived by her husband, her daughter Tristan and her husband Casey Lee and their daughters Ada and Ruby; by her son Travis and his wife, Lynn, all of Fort Collins; also, by her brother K. William Golliher and his wife Ellen of Longmont; her brother Douglas Golliher and his wife Janeane of Mead.

Janine was a good wife, mother, grandmother, in-law, neighbor and friend and will be missed by many.