Peters, Mo. She was nominated by her daughter, Karen Taylor, and Jane was surprised on the show with a crown, sash, and the promise of a royal New York weekend, including tickets to the Broadway play, ; dinner at , and a stay at , including a massage and facial at its spa. Do you know a special woman who deserves to be treated like royalty?
If only for one day, The Saturday Early Show would like to give her the celebration she deserves. It's time for you to write to us and tell us about her. Just send us an email at .
Please put "Queen For A Saturday" in the subject line and make sure to include a phone number where we can reach you during the business day. Is she a relative? A friend?
A co-worker? Is she a favorite teacher? Who knows?
She might be the one to wear our crown. Jane Van Boven was selected as Queen For A Saturday after her daughter, Karen Taylor, wrote the following email: "It would be my pleasure to nominate my mom, Jane Van Boven, to be Queen For A Saturday. "My mom is one of the most phenomenal, interesting people I know.
She lives her life in a true humanitarian way, always thinking of other people's needs and desires and selflessly obtains these goals. "While she lives on a "shoestring" budget, her very small apartment reflects her personality with the flare she has for life, design, and fashion. "She is diabetic, yet does not take medication, because of the strong will power to eat properly to remain living independently.
She lives in constant pain with motor sensory neuropathy but never complains. Although she must wear leg braces to walk any given distance to maintain her balance, the daily regime of either working or volunteering never slows her down. "She directs her energy toward helping someone each day.
She believes if you take the focus off of yourself and help someone else, you not only will be happier and healthier, but you are pleasing God as well as enriching the lives of other people. "She has a passion for helping seniors live independently, healthy, and happy. She has helped many seniors remain living independently in their apartments, getting them the help they need albeit financial or medical assistance, rides to their doctors or to the hospital for chemo or radiation, rides to the grocery store or pharmacy, providing planned meals for the ill, getting them involved in their own community, encouraging them to be active in some sort of physical way, encourages them to remain socially active, and last but not least, just good ole plain company by spending time with them, just listening.
"The legacy my mom leaves her children is the example by the way she fully lives her life by doing the very best she can for herself and the lives of others." Jane has been living in an apartment complex for senior citizens for about 10 years. Says daughter Karen, "She helps everyone there with everything," adding, "She has made that little senior citizen complex a family.
" In addition to what she does for her friends and the seniors who live near her, she works four days a week for , a regional nonprofit organization providing services and programs designed to break the cycle of poverty, one family at a time. The mission of CtS is to guide individuals and their families with a plan and necessary resources needed to rise to a level of independence and economic self-reliance. From its inception, CtS has focused on helping women and families in the welfare system overcome the many challenges and obstacles to achieving the quality of life they desire.
Jane watches The Saturday Early Show every week.
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