Janet Halsten Grover, 74, a Foreign Service wife and real estate agent in Montgomery County, died Dec. 25 at the Wilson Health Center at
Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg. She had Alzheimer's disease.
She was born in Flushing, N.Y., and moved to the Washington area in the early 1940s when her father came to work as an accountant for
the Navy Department. The family first settled in Mount Rainier, and she lived on and off in the Washington area for 60 years. She was a
Bethesda resident for the last 35 years.
She graduated from McKinley Technical High School in 1948 and spent a year at the University of Maryland. She later became a secretary
at the Department of State, for the Exchange of Persons Program, which included the Fulbright Program.
In 1956, she met her husband-to-be, a new member of the U. S. Foreign Service. After their marriage, she accompanied him to Spain, Brazil
and four Andean countries over a span of 29 years. She also helped her husband during his studies at Tulane University and the Stanford
Business School. In 1973, she began a five-year career selling real estate in Washington.
After her husband retired in 1985, she became a real estate agent for the Kelley Company in Bethesda, working there until 1995.
Survivors include her husband of 48 years, Charles W. Grove of Bethesda; four children, Marisa G. Mofford of Altadena, Calif., Charles H.
Grover, also a member of the U. S. Foreign Service currently assigned to Charleston, S. C., Michael E. Grover of Jamaica Plain, Mass., and
Ellen M. Reber of East Douglas, Mass.; a sister, Diana Brockway of Laurel; and 10 grandchildren.
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