JANET LYNN PETERSON COUNTS, age 61, of Winchester, Tenn., departed this life on Monday, April 13, 2026, at her residence losing her battle with cancer.  Ms. Counts was born in Gary, Indiana, to the late Carroll Wright Peterson, Jr. and Laurie Barnett Peterson on August 7, 1964.  She was last employed at M-TEK and Kasai in Manchester for the past 28 years before her illness.  Ms. Counts loved anything patriotic or red, white and blue.  She could be seen around her neighborhood driving her grandchildren around in her blue golf cart.  She enjoyed going to yard sales and shopping.  Ms. Counts was very talented at book folding and her work can be viewed on facebook, The Bookworms. She loved the times she spent with her family and her german shepherd, Dexter.  She will be remembered as a person that never met a stranger and her big heart.

She is survived by her former husband and friend, Jamie Counts, daughter, Makayla Gonyea and husband, Brandon, grandchildren; Layla Laxson and Kayden Gonyea, mother and step-father, Laurie Graham and husband, Wayne, Sister and brother-in-law, Karen Barnes and husband, Terry all of Winchester.  Step-sister and brother-in-law, Chrystal Judge and husband, James of Decherd, Tenn., and nephew, Geoffrey Gipson of Cowan, Tenn.

Services for Ms. Counts will be conducted at 3:00 P.M. Wednesday, April 15, 2026, in the Chapel of Grant Funeral Services LLC, with Bro. Johnny Bradford, officiating.  Visitation with the family will be held from 1:00 P.M. until service time at 3:00 on Wednesday.

Interment will follow in Cowan Montgomery Cemetery in Cowan, Tenn. with family serving as pallbearers.