Janet M. Gratkowski Mikrut, 56, a Taylor resident for the past six years, died Tuesday morning at Community Medical Center.

Born in Scranton on May 25, 1947, daughter of the late Stanley J. and Stella Buzzinski Gratkowski, she was a 1965 graduate of Scranton Central High School and a 1968 graduate of the Scranton State General Hospital School of Nursing. She was former head nurse of the Mid Valley Hospital Intensive Care Unit, Peckville, and a member of St. Ann's Basilica, West Scranton.

She loved her pets and enjoyed needlepoint, handcrafts and painting.

Surviving are a sister, Nancy Dopko, Dunmore; a brother, Stanley Gratkowski, Scranton; her caregiver, Ann Marie Boyle, with whom she resided; aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews and a niece.

She was preceded in death by a brother, Richard Gratkowski.

The funeral will be Thursday at 9:30 a.m. from the Durkan-Cuff-Kearney Funeral Home, 125 N. Main Ave., with Mass at 10 in St. Ann's Basilica, to be celebrated by the Rev. Kenneth Walsh, C.P. Cremation, Maple Hill at Salem Crematory, Archbald. Interment, Sacred Hearts Cemetery, South Scranton, at a later date.

Friends may call today, 5 to 8 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Diabetes Association, c/o 63 N. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre, 18701.