I remember Joan's passing as a very sad surprise. As I recall, she died of Leukemia in the Fall of 1965. It seemed very un-fair at the time. Too young and too much to live for. We've all seen this repeated much too often in the past 46 years!
Lovely Joanie with the beautiful green eyes. Speed typist (how did she do that?) and lover of convertible cars. So much potential, she will always be remembered as she was, young and sweet.
Joan was a wonderful girl and greatly missed. I believe that her Dad owned the Pontiac Dealership downtown Seattle and my Dad worked there in the parts department. Her older sister wrote in my annual that she would give me a discount if I bought a Pontiac !!! I hope that someday that I will at least be able to visit Heaven , because I know Joan will be there ! RIP Joan, we all loved you. Don holmquist
liked Joan so very much; she was the most gracious and kind girl in the class and there were many of those! I was so shocked by her death at such a young age from leukemia. She was beautiful, inside and out. What a terrible thing for her fanily.
We were almost neighbors back then: she lived about four houses down Forest Ave. from Crestwood Dr., and our house was on Crestwood and Laurel.
I think I had heard she succumbed to cancer, but did not know it was Leukemia. My brother Jim (Class of '63) died of CLL in 1995 and that is the main reason I got into doing the Big Climb of the Columbia Tower seven years ago. To commemorate my seventh year last week, I climbed it seven times. Now I have an additional reason to keep on doing that!!
Joan Evans, a friend from very early childhood, was unique and lovely. Beautiful, yes, but quietly so, with a deep pitched voice and a marvelous, precise way of speaking. I felt that she was lodged firmly in my life and heart, and news of her death was troubling. From what I remember, she became very sick at the dentist's, and declined rapidly for two weeks, until she expired. Leukimia they said, which made no sense then, and started to make gruesome sense as time passed and information came out about cancer clusters and leukimia epidemics from the radioactivity drifting from Hanford.
I consider Joan to be an early martyr to the nuclear industry. In any case, Joan has made her transformation and lingers in our hearts and minds in beauty and love.
Terrance Pardee
I remember Joan's passing as a very sad surprise. As I recall, she died of Leukemia in the Fall of 1965. It seemed very un-fair at the time. Too young and too much to live for. We've all seen this repeated much too often in the past 46 years!
Kathleen Maxwell (Osthus)
Lovely Joanie with the beautiful green eyes. Speed typist (how did she do that?) and lover of convertible cars. So much potential, she will always be remembered as she was, young and sweet.
Don Holmquist
Joan was a wonderful girl and greatly missed. I believe that her Dad owned the Pontiac Dealership downtown Seattle and my Dad worked there in the parts department. Her older sister wrote in my annual that she would give me a discount if I bought a Pontiac !!! I hope that someday that I will at least be able to visit Heaven , because I know Joan will be there ! RIP Joan, we all loved you. Don holmquist
Vicki Horoton (Musselman)
liked Joan so very much; she was the most gracious and kind girl in the class and there were many of those! I was so shocked by her death at such a young age from leukemia. She was beautiful, inside and out. What a terrible thing for her fanily.Vicki horoton (Musselman)
Ron Mattson
We were almost neighbors back then: she lived about four houses down Forest Ave. from Crestwood Dr., and our house was on Crestwood and Laurel.
I think I had heard she succumbed to cancer, but did not know it was Leukemia. My brother Jim (Class of '63) died of CLL in 1995 and that is the main reason I got into doing the Big Climb of the Columbia Tower seven years ago. To commemorate my seventh year last week, I climbed it seven times. Now I have an additional reason to keep on doing that!!
Ron Mattson
Gail Heise (Moreno)
Gail Heise (Moreno)
She was a great girl..her death brought a lot of us together. She will always be remembered as a sweet, out going girl. Such a loss!
Greg Lyons (Lyons)
Joan Evans, a friend from very early childhood, was unique and lovely. Beautiful, yes, but quietly so, with a deep pitched voice and a marvelous, precise way of speaking. I felt that she was lodged firmly in my life and heart, and news of her death was troubling. From what I remember, she became very sick at the dentist's, and declined rapidly for two weeks, until she expired. Leukimia they said, which made no sense then, and started to make gruesome sense as time passed and information came out about cancer clusters and leukimia epidemics from the radioactivity drifting from Hanford.
I consider Joan to be an early martyr to the nuclear industry. In any case, Joan has made her transformation and lingers in our hearts and minds in beauty and love.