Janet D. Lopiccolo, 94, of Pensacola Beach, FL, left us on Sunday, March 9, 2025, after suffering a medical emergency.

She was born Janet Demsky in Brooklyn, NY, where she grew up and met her husband Anthony (deceased 2013). She lived a long, productive life that centered on her family as they frequently moved in connection with Anthony's work with the US Naval aviation program. She was ahead of her time as a woman in getting a college education and in trying to "have it all", meaning both a family and a professional career, before that term even existed. To that end, she pursued and completed advanced college degrees even while raising her family and working as an elementary school teacher. Her career and education progressed as she became a reading specialist and eventually the reading department supervisor for the local county school district, from which she ultimately retired.

Janet was a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was generous with encouragement to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, who called her bobcie which is an Americanized version of the Polish babcia. She would frequently take her grandchildren for a "bobcie day" which could be a visit to a museum, a visit to a park to climb trees, or a visit to the beach… but whatever it was, it would always be fun. As the grandkids grew up, she shared with them her life wisdom that you have to "choose to be happy", a motto that she always lived by.

In retirement, she took up art along with Tony and painted many excellent watercolors featuring beautiful gulf coast scenery. She always had a sunny disposition and a positive attitude, despite living through serious hardships like Hurricane Ivan in 2004, which rendered their house unlivable for over a year, and the daunting effort to put it all back together again. Her positive outlook again proved valuable as she cared for her beloved husband during his protracted illness. That positive disposition continued in her later years as she moved to a local assisted living facility where she could always be found with a book or a crossword puzzle in hand and a twinkle in her eye… that would change to the world's brightest smile the moment any of her family arrived for a visit. Nothing gave her more pleasure than seeing and being with her family.

Janet is survived by her sons, Raymond of Germantown, MD and Richard (Tawn) of Pensacola, FL; granddaughters, Elizabeth and Katie; grandson, Micah; and great-grandchildren Jude, Samantha, and Leaf.

A Graveside Service will be held at 9:30am Friday, March 21, 2025, at Barrancas National Cemetery, a police escorted funeral procession will leave at 9:00am sharp from Harper-Morris Memorial Chapel, 2276 Airport Blvd., Pensacola, FL 32504.