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Lyla “Jean” Hadden, age 90, of Janesville, WI joined her husband, Richard on March 6, 2017, in heaven at Star Number 045-460. Richard was gifted a star upon his death. Jean was born in Poynette, WI on November 29, 1926, where she met and married her life-long friend, (since grade school), Richard “Dick” Hadden. They were married for 66 years. She was the daughter of Lyle and Minnie (Schmidt) Rose. Jean was preceded in death by her husband, Richard, her parents Lyle and Minnie and two sisters, Carol (Bill) Howard and Sally (Charlie) Schultz. Jean spent almost 10 years in a courageous battle with Parkinson’s and Leukemia. She graduated from a prestigious school of business and spent her working career as an accountant. She worked in her native born Wisconsin to pay for her husband’s education at the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated with a double degree. They moved to Illinois in 1949 and she took a job heading the accounting department for Stone Container Corporation for 27 years, loving her job. They both retired in 1985, Jean six months after Dick, but only because he forgot to pick her up from work one night until 7:00 p.m. (Something they laughed at years later). Otherwise she’d probably have worked another several years with the numbers she loved so much. Once retired she was very happy with the decision. She was a voracious reader, consuming two or three books per day since her childhood. She once confessed to reading every book in her small-town school library of Poynette, WI. Her mother called her a “Blue Stocking”. Shortly after her marriage she read an entire set of Encyclopedias. Jean was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, enjoyed community service and was a humanitarian who helped and donated to many. She and her husband were totally devoted to their family and were very loving, with all-forgiving natures.
Jean was blessed with two daughters, Suzanne and Diane, who share very fond memories of all the camping trips they took every year when camping was exactly that … a tent and a little gas stove or a fire to cook over. No “glamping”. They mapped out each trip in advance and over the years, except for Alaska and Hawaii, drove through every state and most of the Canadian provinces. Jean loved traveling with Dick and after their camping trips stopped, they went to many countries around the world visiting Europe eighteen times. One of Jean’s favorite trips was aboard a boat on the Yangtze River in China enjoying all of the wonderful sights before the Three Gorges Dam was built and the area was flooded. Beyond travel her greatest journey was enjoying her grandchildren and great-granddaughter, Lyla. When Jean’s health began to fail she was greatly encouraged by frequent visits from her grandchildren. Jean was never idle (unless reading) and was a girl scout leader for years, worked for the census which supplied many entertaining stories, cooked and kept her home, covered furniture, wallpapered, painted and made clothing for her then young children when sewing was popular. Jean loved being a Sunday school teacher and was volunteer as well as the church accountant for many years in two states of residence. She helped with ECHO lunches and also delivered Meals on Wheels. Jean kept up with the times by taking night classes; one being a computer language class for the ”new” computer which was very novel at the time and you needed to know “Dos” a now primitive computer language to run simple programs. She knitted and sewed and even knew how to tat which is the lost art of making lace. She had an enterprising family history, including a meat market, a farming business and a poultry enterprise which was modeled after a University of Wisconsin Study. Jean saw and participated in many great industrial changes. She saw farming with horses change to machinery, outhouses to plumbed bathrooms, party lines to cell phones, walking seven miles to school uphill both ways in a blizzard, to a man landing on the moon. In later years she had an avid interest in her family tree, something her daughters will continue to pursue. She had a huge stockpile of information, personal stories, letters, photographs and original documents of immigration, marriages and graduations dated as old as 200 years. Many family stories are recorded including building houses and then letting the pigs run rampant in the old house enjoying the wallpaper.
She is survived by her brother, Willard (Esther) Rose, daughters, Suzanne (Gene) Oakley and Diane (Claude) Lewis, four grandchildren, W.C. Ryan Lewis, Richard Lewis, Perry Lewis and Tatianna (Luke) Jenson and one great-granddaughter Lyla Jenson, her special cousin Linda Packard plus many more cousins, nieces and nephews.
Jean will be forever dearly missed by her family and friends for her compassion, wit and kindness. She had unconditional love for her family and will be remembered by all as a woman with special humor and generosity.
Services will be at 12 Noon Monday, March 13, 2017 at Trinity Episcopal Church, Janesville with Rev. Kathy Monson Lutes officiating. Visitation will be at the church on Monday from 11 a.m. until the time of services. The family is being assisted by Henke-Clarson Funeral Home. (608-741-1713).
“I love you dearly”

Lyla “Jean” Hadden, age 90, of Janesville, WI joined her husband, Richard on March 6, 2017, in heaven at Star Number 045-460. Richard was gifted a star upon his death. Jean was born in Poynette, WI on November 29, 1926, where she met and married her life-long friend, (since grade school), Richard “Dick” Hadden. They were married for 66 years. She was the daughter of Lyle and Minnie (Schmidt) Rose. Jean was preceded in death by her husband, Richard, her parents Lyle and Minnie and two sisters, Carol (Bill) Howard and Sally (Charlie) Schultz. Jean spent almost 10 years in a courageous battle with Parkinson’s and Leukemia. She graduated from a prestigious school of business and spent her working career as an accountant. She worked in her native born Wisconsin to pay for her husband’s education at the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated with a double degree. They moved to Illinois in 1949 and she took a job heading the accounting department for Stone Container Corporation for 27 years, loving her job. They both retired in 1985, Jean six months after Dick, but only because he forgot to pick her up from work one night until 7:00 p.m. (Something they laughed at years later). Otherwise she’d probably have worked another several years with the numbers she loved so much. Once retired she was very happy with the decision. She was a voracious reader, consuming two or three books per day since her childhood. She once confessed to reading every book in her small-town school library of Poynette, WI. Her mother called her a “Blue Stocking”. Shortly after her marriage she read an entire set of Encyclopedias. Jean was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, enjoyed community service and was a humanitarian who helped and donated to many. She and her husband were totally devoted to their family and were very loving, with all-forgiving natures.
Jean was blessed with two daughters, Suzanne and Diane, who share very fond memories of all the camping trips they took every year when camping was exactly that … a tent and a little gas stove or a fire to cook over. No “glamping”. They mapped out each trip in advance and over the years, except for Alaska and Hawaii, drove through every state and most of the Canadian provinces. Jean loved traveling with Dick and after their camping trips stopped, they went to many countries around the world visiting Europe eighteen times. One of Jean’s favorite trips was aboard a boat on the Yangtze River in China enjoying all of the wonderful sights before the Three Gorges Dam was built and the area was flooded. Beyond travel her greatest journey was enjoying her grandchildren and great-granddaughter, Lyla. When Jean’s health began to fail she was greatly encouraged by frequent visits from her grandchildren. Jean was never idle (unless reading) and was a girl scout leader for years, worked for the census which supplied many entertaining stories, cooked and kept her home, covered furniture, wallpapered, painted and made clothing for her then young children when sewing was popular. Jean loved being a Sunday school teacher and was volunteer as well as the church accountant for many years in two states of residence. She helped with ECHO lunches and also delivered Meals on Wheels. Jean kept up with the times by taking night classes; one being a computer language class for the ”new” computer which was very novel at the time and you needed to know “Dos” a now primitive computer language to run simple programs. She knitted and sewed and even knew how to tat which is the lost art of making lace. She had an enterprising family history, including a meat market, a farming business and a poultry enterprise which was modeled after a University of Wisconsin Study. Jean saw and participated in many great industrial changes. She saw farming with horses change to machinery, outhouses to plumbed bathrooms, party lines to cell phones, walking seven miles to school uphill both ways in a blizzard, to a man landing on the moon. In later years she had an avid interest in her family tree, something her daughters will continue to pursue. She had a huge stockpile of information, personal stories, letters, photographs and original documents of immigration, marriages and graduations dated as old as 200 years. Many family stories are recorded including building houses and then letting the pigs run rampant in the old house enjoying the wallpaper.
She is survived by her brother, Willard (Esther) Rose, daughters, Suzanne (Gene) Oakley and Diane (Claude) Lewis, four grandchildren, W.C. Ryan Lewis, Richard Lewis, Perry Lewis and Tatianna (Luke) Jenson and one great-granddaughter Lyla Jenson, her special cousin Linda Packard plus many more cousins, nieces and nephews.
Jean will be forever dearly missed by her family and friends for her compassion, wit and kindness. She had unconditional love for her family and will be remembered by all as a woman with special humor and generosity.
Services will be at 12 Noon Monday, March 13, 2017 at Trinity Episcopal Church, Janesville with Rev. Kathy Monson Lutes officiating. Visitation will be at the church on Monday from 11 a.m. until the time of services. The family is being assisted by Henke-Clarson Funeral Home. (608-741-1713).
“I love you dearly”