Janice J. Caldwell, a longtime educator in Lake Forest School District, passed away on September 23, 2025. She was 90 years old.
Born July 2, 1935, to the late Carroll and Helen Johnson, Caldwell graduated from Lock Haven High School in 1953. She earned her bachelor’s in Elementary Education in 1957 and began teaching in Pennsylvania. After three years, Caldwell moved to Delaware and taught at Lake Forest Elementary School for 41 years before her retirement in 1998.
Caldwell and her late husband, Richard, who was also an educator, were members of the First Presbyterian Church of Milford where they both sang in the choir. Caldwell directed the Handbell Choir for several years. Music was a central part of her life as she also sang with the Milford Harmonette Chorus and was the bass in the Bayside 4 Barbershop Quartet.
A proud member of the Bayhealth Sussex Campus Auxiliary, Caldwell assisted with the hospital fair for many years and was on several fundraising committees. Since Lock Haven was the home of the Piper Cub, Caldwell loved airplanes. She and her husband volunteered at the Air Mobility Command Museum at the Dover Air Force Base and was the volunteer coordinator for the Milford Museum for 21 years. She enjoyed watching the big C-5s do “touch and goes.”
Caldwell and her husband attended many high school and college reunions. They also attended a luncheon in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, twice a year with a group of about 50 Penn Dell Group of Lock Haven Teacher Grads who taught in these two states.
“It is always good to keep in touch with so many friends,” Caldwell was known to say.
Caldwell was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, Dick Caldwell, her parents, her sister, Dolores (Ross) Thomas and her step-father, Robert Kniss. She is survived by a niece, several nephews, great nieces and nephews, great-great nieces and nephews as well as a great-great-great niece.
The family wishes to thank Judy and Garry Grier, Linda Irwin, Karen Roberts, John Bechtold, Mike Moyer and the many aides for all of their care and concern of Caldwell in her recent months.
Services will be held Monday, September 29 at the First Presbyterian Church, 101 South Walnut Street, Milford with visitation from 10 to 11:30 AM and a service immediately following. Interment will be at Milford Community Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks for contributions to The Old Church Fund at the First Presbyterian Church, 101 S. Walnut Street, Milford DE, 19963 or The Dunnstown United Methodist Church, 59 Church Street, Lock Haven, PA. 17745.
