Services will be at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 14 at the Hilligoss Shrader Funeral Home, 705 South Main Street, Tuscola, with the Reverend Tony Crouch officiating.  Visitation will be held one hour prior to the  service. . Burial will be in the Tuscola Township Cemetery.

On July 16, 1924, Jeanette was born as Gladys Stella Broadway on a farm outside Franklinton, Louisiana, the daughter of Warren and Rebecca Ballard Broadway. She was the seventh of ten children. Jeanette's mother died young in 1930 resulting in Gladys and her four sisters being removed from the home. The five boys were kept on the farm. The Great Depression was underway and her poor dirt farmer father could not manage a large family. Mary Eunice Aly, the widow of a well-respected judge adopted Gladys, raising her as an only child renamed as Mary Jeanette Aly. That fall at age six, Jeanette was baptized at the Grace Episcopal Church in Lake Providence, Louisiana. Her adopted maternal grandmother, Cora Jeanette Griffin, lived in the home also. Jeanette recalled how Cora taught her about Jesus and what it was like to be loved. Decades later in 1984 thanks to research by oldest daughter Linda, Jeanette was reunited with four siblings in a trip to Louisiana.

Jeanette married Alex N. "Pete" Kelsey in Mattoon, Illinois, on May 21, 1947. He died on February 1, 1992, in Marion, IL. Jeanette relocated to Tuscola where she and Pete had founded Kelsey Furniture Store in the 1960's. Early in the marriage, Jeanette overcame tuberculosis while pregnant with youngest daughter Kathy. Jeanette is survived by step-son Robert (Bonnie) Kelsey of Mesa, AZ; two daughters, Linda (Charlie) Dobbs of Ocala, Fl., Kathy (Ed) Allen of Land O' Lakes, Fl; two sisters, Anna Hayman and Marjorie Delafosse of Louisiana; six grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.

Jeanette was a generous Christian, donating to many churches and charities.

Memorials may be made to the American Lung Foundation or the Alzheimer's Association.

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