Jan Marie Amundson

Jan Marie Amundson, 66, of Grand Island, died on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. A Memorial Service will be 10 AM on Friday, April 4, 2025, at Apfel Funeral Home in Grand Island, NE with Derek Apfel CFC officiating. Burial will be in the Grand Island City Cemetery at 10 AM on Saturday, April 5, 2025. Online condolences may be left at www.apfelfuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers memorials are suggested to Willow Rising, https://www.willowrising.org/donate, or a charity of choice. The Memorial Service will be livestreamed with more details to come.

She was born on April 20, 1958, and graduated from Wood River High School in 1976. She earned a Bachelors of Science in Nursing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and continued her education with an ARNP and MSN from University of Nebraska Medical Center. After retirement as a nurse practitioner, she opened a hypnotherapy clinic. She spent her life as a health care provider, caring both for her patients and family with love.

Jan loved sharing her art and hobbies with her children and grandchildren, spending many hours sewing, painting, quilting, and making pottery in her home studio. She loved learning new things, acquiring new hobbies, and sharing that joy with others. Jan married Bob on June 9, 2012 amongst Jan’s carefully curated gardens. Together, she and Bob traveled the world, enjoying 13 years of marriage together. She will be remembered for her kindness, the strength she showed, and for how proud she was of all of her children.

She is survived by her husband, Bob, and her daughters Paige (Angela) Amundson, Lindsay (Jim) Clark, and sons Dean (Heather) Amundson and Dave (Tia) Wenzl. She is also survived by her mother, Ruby (Rickert) Harders, her brother Robert (Laurie) Harders, her grandchildren, Lyra, Taylor, Madison, Emersyn, Reese, Bostyn, and Robert, as well as several nieces and a nephew. She is preceded in death by her father, Delbert Harders, brother Phillip “Phil” Harders, and paternal grandparents (Otto and Marie Harders) and maternal grandparents (Joe and Florence Rickert).