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Robbie Janes, 66, started WHS soccer program

January 23, 2020

Robert Glenn Janes Jr. of Hagley Estates, a retired teacher, died Jan. 17 at Waccamaw Community Hospital. He was 66.

Known as Robbie, he was born March 25, 1954, in Fairmont, W. Va., the son  of the late Dr. Robert Janes and Maronee Fleming Janes Wroe. He was educated in Marion County Public Schools and graduated from Fairmont Senior High School in 1972. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from Davis & Elkins College in 1978 and later earned a degree in education from Coastal Carolina University. 

He was remembered as a true scholar who had a passion for teaching others. He spent 32 years teaching English, speech and drama at Marion High School, Georgetown High School, Waccamaw High School, Bennettsville High School and Carvers Bay High School. He started Thespian Societies at Georgetown High and Waccamaw High.

He considered the 3,500 students he taught over his career as his own children, his family said.

Mr. Janes also established and coached the soccer programs at Georgetown and Waccamaw High. He started the Can-Am matches at Waccamaw, which continued to be  part of the program for many years.

He loved his West Virginia roots but also enjoyed the beaches and weather of the Lowcountry.

He is survived by his wife of 37 years, Christine McLennan Janes; his sons, Robert Glenn “Trey” Janes III and McLennan Stewart “Lenny” Janes (Amanda Howard); his, siblings Pamela Janes Snyder, Judge David Robert Janes, Anne Elizabeth Janes and Thomas Fleming Janes; and many nieces and nephews. 

He was a camper at Peterkin Conference Center, an Episcopal Church facility, for eight years and a Peterkin counselor for two years. He requested that memorials be made to the center, 286 Clubhouse Rd., Romney, West Virginia 26757.

There is a guest book at mayerfuneralhome.com.

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