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Robert Glenn Janes, M.D., born March 30. 1924, formerly of Fairmont, West Virginia, died Saturday, July 2, 2005 at Waccamaw Community Hospital. Dr. Janes was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, a son of Mary Rosella Linn and Glenn William Janes. He graduated from East Fairmont High School, attended West Virginia University and graduated fom Northwestern University School of Medicine. He was an Air Force veteran of WWII and a flight surgeon at the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base. He was a charter member of American Academy for Family Practice, a charter member of the Surfside Area Rotary Club, and a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International. Dr. Janes practiced medicine for fifty-two years, both in Fairmont and in Garden City. He was a member of Belin Memorial United Methodist Church in Murrells Inlet. Dr. Janes believed that patients put their lives and well-being in the hands, mind and abilities of a doctor. He never forgot that charge; he lived by it daily. In fact, he believed it so strongly that he persuaded his wife, Dr. Shelia Fisher-Janes, to continue her education and become a family doctor as well. Surviving, in addition to his wife, Dr. Shelia Fisher-Janes, are three sons, David Robert Janes of Fairmont; Robert Glenn Janes, Jr. of Pawleys Island; and Thomas Fleming Janes of Walkersville, Maryland; and two daughters, Pamela Janes Snyder of Pawleys Island; and Anne Elizabeth Janes of Garden City; and eight grandchildren, Charles W. Snyder III, Elizabeth Snyder, Nicole Linn Janes, Nathan Rush Janes, and Alexander Coburn Janes, Robert Glenn Janes III Trey, McLennan Stewart Janes, and Lena Rose Janes. Funeral services will be held at 11 A.M. Monday, July 4, 2005 at Belin Memorial United Methodist Church.The family will receive friends at Goldfinch Funeral Home, Beach Chapel from 6-8 P.M. Sunday. A memorial service will be held at 11 A.M. Wednesday at Ford Funeral Home on Country Club Road in Fairmont, West Virginia with burial to follow in Janes Memorial United Methodist Church Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to the American Heart Association Memorial Center, P.O. Box 5216, Glen Allen, VA 23058-5216.