Jane Talley, age 81 of Bottineau formerly of Minot, passed away on Tuesday, January 2, 2024 at her home in Bottineau.  A memorial service will be held on Thursday, January 4, 2024 at 1:00 pm at the Nero Funeral Home in Bottineau.

In lieu of flowers the family requests that memorials be given to the Lutheran Braile Workers C/O Our Savior's Lutheran Church or the Bottineau Family Crisis Center

Jane Louise Henderson Talley was born March 22, 1942 to Ruth Frances Stanley and Bryce Fitch Henderson at Trinity Hospital in Minot, ND…She was probably one of the only babies whose mother was driven to the hospital by the delivering physician. The eldest of five children, Jane grew up on a farm outside Sherwood, ND, until her family moved into town during her school years. She graduated from Sherwood High School and then attended Trinity School of Nursing in Minot before she began her life's calling as a nurse, first at Trinity Hospital and eventually as a pediatric nurse for 20 years at Medical Arts Clinic in Minot.

Jane married Rolland Adrian Talley July 14, 1967, in Sherwood. Her daughter Joanne Rae was born in 1968 and son Wade Rolland came the following year. They lived in Minot for a few years and then settled in Glenburn, ND where the children attended junior and senior high school. After Joanne and Wade graduated from high school and left for college, Jane and Rolly moved to Wyoming where she worked in a dialysis unit. They moved to Delaware in 1992 and where Jane again worked in a dialysis unit.

Jane and Rolly enjoyed their years in Delaware, traveling to various historical sites and other areas of interest along the east coast. Family and friends also made several visits to see them and enjoy their hospitality. They bought a cabin on Lake Metigoshe while visiting North Dakota in the summer of 1993 and eventually retired to their cabin in 1999. Thus began the many summer visits from the grandkids for frigid swims in the lake and hot towels from the dryer, late night movies (later than the grandkids ever admitted) and even later morning marathons of Sponge Bob cartoons and mounds of homemade caramel pull-aparts.

Jane and Rolly enjoyed summers at the lake and winters in town. They worked on the house and yard together… Rolly in the garden and Jane on the flower beds. They supported their community through volunteer work with the Bottineau Family Crisis Center and Lutheran Braille Workers at Our Savior's Lutheran Church.

Jane loved birthdays, holidays, sporting events and any reason to gather with family and friends. She was always up for a board game or a card game with the grandkids, though all social activity stopped in time to catch the day's episode of Jeopardy (sometimes several days' episodes if she had recorded them while away from home).

Though contentedly settled amongst family and friends in North Dakota, Jane and Rolly fed their adventurous souls on their extensive travels. She and Rolly wandered the green countryside of the Emerald Isle, meandered the rivers of Europe and gazed upon the Great Wall of China. Jane gathered many things she counted as precious during her travels including stamps from the ND parks, discarded decks from area casinos and fridge magnets from all of the 50 states.

Eventually the travels were limited to shorter trips, mostly to visit family though she did get to a few casinos in 2023. The last several months she stayed home and Rolly became the nurse, patiently and faithfully caring for her needs. Now her family and friends travelled to her. We all counted it a blessing to have these months to see her and talk with her, even though she could not see us. We all hugged her, told her our latest adventures, put the babies in her lap. She could not see her loved ones with her eyes, but she was certainly able to see them with her heart. She cuddled the grandchildren, even the last little baby whom she held in her arms just before Christmas. A few days later, January 2, 2024, Jane passed away in her own bed at home as she had desired.

The home Jane left, the one she had made for her family, is filled with travel mementos, & figurines, with Hummel figurines inherited from her mother, and Santas from her husband. The walls are nearly covered with artwork and paintings, with cross stitch wall hangings that count off the hours she spent in their stitching as well as cards and drawings by and from her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

And then there are the photos. The pictures on the walls, pictures in photo albums, pictures not yet printed and still in their negatives sleeves. The pockets of the photo albums bulge with duplicate and triplicate copies of the many pictures she could not bear to part with.

I understand why she kept each and every one of these pictures, these mementos, these trinkets. These aren't memorabilia…they are memories. And her walls, shelves and drawers don't hold her collections. They house her connections, her memories, the loves of a life she treasured, filled with people she treasured.

Jane was a collector; a collector of love for her family. And now even though she is gone, they can still look around and see what she saw: the memories of a sister, an aunt, a friend…the love of a Great-Grandma, a Grandma, a mother, and a wife.

Jane was preceded in death by her parents and her sister Judy Hurdelbrink. She is survived by her husband Rolly, her daughter Joanne (Jeff Seifert), son Wade (Dawn), Grand daughters Kate (Ethan Rodgers) and Charlotte; Grandsons Samuel (Cristina), Benjamin (Megan), Matthew (Karli), Jeremiah (Sylvia) and Theodore, Daniel Zieske and Ryan Seifert; Great Grandchildren Eva, Oliver and Amelia Rodgers, Sophia Talley and Asa Talley; Brothers Bruce (Jan), David (Gail Heller) and John (Nanci); Brother-in-law Dennis Talley; Sisters-in-law Janice Talley, Linda Erickson-Talley and Joan Meyer.

Arrangements were with Nero Funeral Home in Bottineau.  Friends may sign the online register book at www.nerofuneralhome.net

Jane's service will be livestreamed at https://www.youtube.com/@nerofuneralhome6627/streams.com