Farewell To My Beloved Cousin

Jan Curran has passed away at 73. Jan was my second cousin, my father's first. Her blog, Jan Curran Events, inspired me to begin a blog of my own.

Jan was born in Walla Walla and graduated from Walla Walla High School, she went to the University Of Washington and met and married Alan Goldberg. Together they had 4 children. Jan and Alan divorced in the early 70s. She was briefly married to Donald Curran. Although she lived in California for almost all of her adult life, she would bring her children to Walla Walla every summer to visit the Grandparents, which is how I would meet Lee and Karen and later, Linda and Tod. Just about a year ago, she completed the book "Active Senior Living" a warm hearted comedy, based on life in a senior living center.

Through her blog, she was able to start what she called the "Jan Curran Fan Club", the idea behind it was for members to donate their old magazines and books to cancer treatment centers rather than throw them away. The Jan Curran Fan Club currently has a group on facebook with over one hundred members.

Click here for a wonderful article in the Desert Sun, the daily newspaper in Palm Springs.

Read Jan Curran's Latest

" ACTIVE SENIOR LIVING was written by my cousin Jan Curran. Jan moved from the Palm Springs area to a senior living center near LA a couple of years ago to be near her kids as she was going through cancer treatments. Like the Golden Girls, the hit TV show of the 80, it deals with the various problems that come with aging. It is a tender book that will pull at your heartstrings, yet will also make you laugh out loud. You can order Active Senior Living by clicking here.

Jan Curran's Novel Published

Jan Curran, my cousin and inspiration for this blog, has written her latest novel, Active Senior Living, a humorous fictionalized account of a Southern California writer and newspaper reporter, whose battle with cancer forces her to move into an assisted living facility. You can order Jan's book by clicking here.