Janet (Adams) Foreback, 77, of Macungie, died peacefully at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Cedar Crest, July 17, 2020. She was the wife of Raymond C. Foreback since 2006. She battled health issues for many years but never lost her smile. She was able to say goodbye to her family moments before passing. She was a wonderful person to spend time with. She was the daughter of the late Stephen D. Adams and Nan C. (Campbell) Adams.

She was a 1961 graduate of Allentown High School, earned a Bachelor of Science degrees at Centenary College for Women and Tobe Coburn School of Fashion and Design. She worked in various retail stores in New York City before marrying and raising her family. She was married to John Gould Jr., of Emmaus, for 27 years.

She started and managed the John Gould Triangle Shop in Emmaus which in 1984 became Triangle Traveling Stores, a company that set up one-day clothing stores to senior care facilities in Pennsylvania and surrounding states.

She volunteered as an auctioneer at PBS39 for many years for The Great On-Air Auction. She retired in 2012.

She and her husband lived half the year in Naples, Fla. and half the year in Macungie.

She loved golf, playing bridge with close friends, shopping for herself and others with her husband and spending time with her grandchildren.

She was a past member of Brookside and Lehigh country clubs and Emmaus Moravian Church.

She is survived by her husband; sons, Dr. John Gould III and his wife, Kimberly, of Columbia, S.C. and Stephen M. Gould and his wife, Renee, of Macungie; a brother, John S. Adams and his wife Diane, of Emmaus; grandchildren, Elizabeth, Ashleigh, Madison, Morgan and Grayson Gould; nephews, Peter and Richard; niece, Arianne.

Contributions may be made to the Emmaus Aquatic Club, 2546 Mill Race Road, Emmaus, 18049. EMAC is a not- for-profit 501.c.3 that her sons, granddaughters, niece and nephews swam competitively for and she would be delighted to know her friends supported this fantastic organization.

Arrangements were made by the Schantz Funeral Home, P.C., Emmaus.