Janet Elaine Markley's Obituary
Janet Elaine Markley, age 88, passed away peacefully on April 8, 2024, at the Northwest Arkansas Circle of Life Hospice Home in Springdale, Arkansas.
She was born to Carl Newton James and Margaret Elles James in Des Moines, Iowa on December 14, 1935. She attended West Side Church of Christ and Roosevelt High School until moving to Rogers, Arkansas with her family in 1952. There she graduated from Rogers High School then returned to Des Moines to live near her sisters. She married Charles Eugene “Bud” Kyle in 1956 and had four children.
Janet was a woman of great intelligence, charm, and wit. She loved medicine earning her Licensed Practical Nursing degree from Des Moines Area Community College in 1972 and worked at Mercy Hospital in Des Moines. To answer her father’s ancestry question Janet spent 20 years as a hobbyist in genealogy research. With her sister Mary Lou James Burnett she published a well-respected genealogy volume in 2002 titled Matthew James of New Hampshire and his Known Descendants: with the related families of Pugsley, Ivers, Wells, Davis, Rasmus, Alford and Weller. Finding three direct lineages to the American Revolution, Janet served as regent for the Daughters of the American Revolution, Jean Marie Cardinell chapter, in Des Moines. Janet moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas in 2018 to be near family.
Preceding her in death was her beloved husband John Harvey Markley of Des Moines, her parents, sisters Helen James McConoughey and Judith James Jackson Sangren, niece Susan Faye Jackson Capper-Bergeron, nephew Kenneth McConoughey, and Bud Kyle.
Janet is survived by her children Christy Kyle Pollock (Ben) of Fayetteville, Craig Robert Kyle of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Carla Dawn Kyle Thier of Imperial Beach, California, and Cary Charles Kyle (Michele) of Sanger, Texas; four grandchildren; and numerous great grandchildren to hold her memory.
She will be interred with the James family at McDivitt Grove Cemetery, Urbandale, Iowa. Memorial gifts can be made to the Northwest Arkansas Circle of Life Hospice non-profit at nwacircleoflife.com.
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