Janet Gay Vincent Aston

Janet Gay Vincent Aston was born on January 29,1940 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

She passed away peacefully at home on August 7, 2026. Thank you to the incredible team at

Dixie Hospice. She loved you!

Janet was the third of Ross Tyler Vincent and Naomi Tolman’s adored daughters. Janet was 

the caboose-seven years after Carol. Despite the years between them, Janet and Lois were very

close. “Lois and I have the same sense of humor. If one of us started to laugh, the other one did

too. We would have these laughing streaks. Tears ran down our faces. More tears, more

giggling.”

Janet was named after her mother’s favorite movie actress, Janet Gaynor. Janet didn’t like her 

middle name, but gaiety truly described her beautiful soul- joyous, vivacious and cheerful. She

once quipped: “I have always been a happy person because I never had enough sense to know

any different.”

Janet was the apple of her father’s eye. She was the son he never had. Her Daddy enjoyed

peasant hunting and she was his bird dog. She would walk ahead of him, make some noise and

scare up the birds for him. He also enjoyed watching football, and she just loved being with her

Daddy, so she spent many hours on the couch with him and developed a love of football 

herself.

Janet loved how her son complained on one occasion that this was the only house where the

husband falls asleep on the couch while the wife watches football.

She was determined and strong-willed soul. “Don’t tell me I can’t do something, ‘cause I’ll

show you.” In her youth she took dance, ice skating and swimming lessons. She learned to knit,

crochet, needle point and sew. She played sports, sang in the Acapella Choir as well as

participated in Pep Club and Senate Court in high school. In her adult life she took an oil

painting class and quickly learned she loved it. She also enjoyed reading and doing ‘puzzle

books’ later in life.

Janet met the love of her life in 5th grade. She took a sack lunch to school and Dale Aston

came to her classroom, to deliver the cartons of milk for lunch. After school, he would come 

over to her house. He took her for rides on the handlebars of his bike. They would sit on the 

grass and talk or on the swing on the back porch and even sneak a kiss occasionally.

Janet married Dale the end of her junior year of high school, on May 31, 1957. She was given 

permission to finish her senior year at Granite High School while Dale was serving in the 

Navy. They were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple on July 7, 1978. Over the years Dale & Janet 

went dancing, golfing, bowling, fishing, camping and traveling the world together. One 

unfulfilled item on her bucket list was to fly in an F-16 fighter jet. She said she didn’t even 

care if she had to use a barf bag to experience the thrill of it. She’s flying now.

Shaping of a career- when she was young her grandma Madsen lived next door. They would 

play ‘school’ when she would go visit. Janet practiced her cursive letters over and over. As a 

result, Janet had beautiful penmanship. Grandma Madsen made her a candy striper uniform 

out of her old nurse’s uniform and she would occasionally take Janet to work with her at the 

nursing home. When her mother would have to go into the office on Saturday to work, she 

would take Janet with her and let her play on the typewriter. Over the years Janet worked as 

a secretary for an eye doctor, in the organ unit of the hospital, and for an ear nose and 

throat doctor. Working for cardiac surgeon, Dr. Donald Doty, was the highlight of her career.

Janet loved her children Vicki (Lonny) and Steven (Cindy), six grandchildren, and fifteen great 

grandchildren. Even after suffering 10 years with dementia, her first question was always 

“how are the kids?”, when you talked to her on the phone. Despite her short-term memory 

loss, Janet coped so well with her problem-solving skills, quick wit and sense of humor. Those 

things never diminished. Neither did her love for her family. When dementia was first 

diagnosed, Janet was asked: “What one thing do you want your family to know?” Without 

hesitation, she replied: “I loved you to the very end-no matter what!”

No funeral services will be held.

Janet’s body will be laid to rest at Hurricane City cemetery.

Janet’s request: “When I go- NO CRYING! I don’t want anyone to be sad. I have had a good life.”

She lived her whole life by the motto: If all else fails….LAUGH!

“If I can laugh, I can get through anything.”

In lieu of flowers, you can honor Janet by living, loving and laughing.