Janet Cameron O’Gorman, 94,  of Lincroft died Saturday, June 8 at home surrounded by her family. Treasured mother, grandmother and friend, she lived her life with faith, optimism and a determination many admired.

Born November 22, 1929 in Brooklyn, New York, Janet lost her hearing at age 5 from childhood illnesses. She became an extraordinary lipreader, reading lips sideways, upside down, on TV before closed-captioning. She graduated from Bay Ridge High School in Brooklyn and worked as a typist before marrying Neil O’Gorman in 1956. They met at a parish dance where it wasn’t until the third song did he discover Janet couldn’t hear. She told him she danced to the vibrations.

They raised their two daughters, Judy and Tricia, in Brooklyn. After years of being a homemaker, taking on DIY projects, crocheting and teaching herself to play piano, she returned to classes to become a keypunch operator and worked for the U.S. Coast Guard until she retired in 1994 and bid farewell to Brooklyn, moving to Red Bank. Four years later she decided she was not finished with Brooklyn and moved back. By 2006 she had resettled in Lincroft.

Janet was predeceased by her parents, Jack and Edna Cameron, her husband Neil, and brother Edmund Cameron. She is survived by her daughters Judy and husband Manuel of Lincroft, Tricia and husband Matthew Dunne, Hampshire, England and three grandchildren: Julia and husband Justin and a great granddaughter on the way in Neptune, Kathleen of New York City and Liam of Hampshire, England. She is also survived by her sister Karen Smith of Prince Edward Island, Canada, and several nieces and nephews.

Janet enjoyed reciting poems such as “Don’t Be a Quitter” and “The Face Upon the Barroom Floor,” and playing piano, learning through touch and vibrations. “Strangers in the Night” was one of her favorites. She enjoyed a baloney sandwich for lunch almost every day and a shrimp and broccoli Chinese dish on weekends. Her devotion to her Catholic faith only slightly wavered as dementia took hold.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 10:15 Wednesday, June 12 at Church of St. Leo the Great, 50 Hurley’s Lane, Lincroft. Janet will be laid to rest with her husband Neil, a U.S. Navy veteran, at Calverton National Cemetery.

In lieu of traditional remembrances, Janet’s family asks with gratitude that donations in her memory be made to St. Jude Children’s Hospital (www.stjude.org)

For messages of condolence, or to share a favorite memory of Janet, please visit her page of tribute at www.HolmdelFuneralHome.com