Janice Button Shafer

Pasadena, CA – The Shafer family is deeply saddened to announce the death of Janice Button Shafer on October 13, 2026, one month after her 95th birthday. She died peacefully from natural causes in the presence of family in Pasadena, CA. She was an amazing woman and a powerful force who impressed everyone she met. We will miss her energy and hearing all her stories, but she will never be forgotten.Janice was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 13, 1931, with her twin sister Judy Button Harmon, to mother Anita Wolever and father Charles T. Button. Inspired by her engineer father, she studied Engineering Physics at Cornell University at a time when there was one woman student for every 500 men in engineering.

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