About the Author

Jan Huntsinger experienced recently the lost of what she considered her best friend, her sister Donna.  In the days after losing her sister, Jan with four grandsons of her own realized that Donna’s grandchildren would never get to know their grandmother. She then remembered something that she and her sister had talked about doing and she decided the best way to honor her sister was to put into words the life they had lived so all their grandchildren would know what it was like in the 1950’s in Independence Missouri. Thus the idea of ‘Growing Up With My Best Friend’ was born. 

Jan’s entire life has been centered on her family, a loving husband of 41 years who passed in 2002, two daughters and sons-in-law and four grandsons. All of sudden her life was all new, with new thresholds to step though that would take courage and faith. She decided to leave the medical field where she worked for 30 years as a part of an office medical team. She has served as an Elder in her church for 11 years, served on the City Council, was a member for sometime of the Independence Young Matrons, a leader in both Girl Scouts and Campfire Girls when her girls where small.

So with her constant companion, an English Setter, named Hannah at her feet, she decided to be bold again and write her first book.