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Note: N10373 The Outlook (Gresham, OR), 28 March 2014 (Friday)
November 12, 1922-March 22, 2014
Joan Helena Meriwether, born November 12, 1922 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, passed peacefully on March 22, 2014 in Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon.
Joan devoted her energy, faith and love to her family and the Mormon church. After graduating high school, Joan met Paul Wesley Meriwether and embarked on a marriage that would last 53 happy years and take her from Indianapolis to New York City, Norwalk, California, and Gresham Oregon, where they lived for 15 years. Joan worked to model the morals of her faith—but would always crack a smile at her husband's salty humor. She had a stubborn streak and wasn't one to hold back her opinions. But she was immensely proud of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, and supported them in all they did.
Joan was passionate about genealogy and delighted in gardening. She loved pearls, big band music, and would unabashedly take seconds on dessert.
She was preceded in death by her husband and her daughter, Linda Louise Meriwether Hammer. She is survived by her children, Patricia Ann Ward (OK), Michael Paul Meriwether (OR), Amy Carol Roessner (NV), John Curtis Meriwether (OR), and Mark Wesley Meriwether (ID); 13 grandchildren; and 24 great-grandchildren.
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