Kelly Marie Janke- Prichard

Kelly is an amazing person, here on Earth and in every realm. Her love and kindness for her students and friends are limitless. I will always remember and cherish the positivity and love exudes from her whole being she generously shared with each one of us. With my prayers for her precious soul, her husband, son and all of loved ones.

Mrs. Janke was such an amazing teacher and person. I always looked forward to going to her class. To this day, Kelly is the only teacher I remember vividly from high school. Her positivity and encouraging personality brightened everyone’s day, and she was truly a light. I am sending many prayers and much love to your family during this time ❤️

Mrs. Janke made me love school, learning, and homework. I hated math before I was in her junior year trigonometry class and from there I ended being her TA for her senior class the following year not inly because I loved math, but because Mrs. Janke was my #1 supporter and friend. I hung out with her before school and during lunch and enjoyed her company. She lifted me up during the hard times and motivated me to work hard and dream big. She would get bagels for every one of her classes and she would order kids lunch if they didn’t have any. She devoted so much love, hard work, and time into her job as a teacher but also as a mentor and friend to her students. She had so much empathy and love in her heart and believed in every single student, even when they didn’t believe in themselves. Mrs. Janke made the world better. I am eternally grateful that I got to have Mrs. Janke in my life.

Ms Janke was one of the few teachers that believed in me & my potential my last years of high school at West. I remember my senior year I was playing "catch up" on my credits and struggled bad with my online math class. Ms Janke allowed me space in her classroom to work and ask for help even if I felt like things were so simplified. Because of her help I was able to pass my math class and walk the stage with my class(2017) and for that I am FOREVER grateful for help, patience and encouragement! Ms Janke, you will be greatly missed!❤️

Ms. Janke was the best teacher any of us students could have asked for. She always brought a smile to everyone’s face, and helped any and everyone she could. She had a level of empathy and understanding for different students life situations to be able to meet them where they could meet her, and build them up from there. I’m so grateful to have had such an inspiration teacher. A person who embodied kindness, all the while always making everyone laugh with her spunky humor. She always bought food for students as well which just made everyone’s day, bagels in class, donuts, pizza, you name it she would get it for us. Thank you for the memories, ms Janke. Rest easy.