As a lifelong resident, she attended Biddeford schools graduating in 1961. Seeking higher education, she then attended Casco Bay Collage. She worked as a typist for the Marine Corps in Newport News, Virginia; she later transferred to the Navy Yard in New Hampshire where she also worked as a typist and a payroll clerk. Around this time, she started her family, the third generation, which would soon become the fourth.
Joan was a survivor of breast cancer and suffered for many years with diabetes, as well as kidney stone disease. Regardless of any tribulation she suffered while she lived, she never complained; her passion was to devote what she had to serve the community and her family. She never lost her smile, we learned unconditional love and always felt we were a joy to her.
She spent many years volunteering at SMMC, and although she frequented craft fairs with the spoils of her knitting and crocheting, she preferred to donate these items to the hospital instead, as well as local daycares. An avid reader; she shared her love of reading by teaching it to adults through the literacy program. She enjoyed playing the piano, cards, and scrabble.
She suffered for so long, but now she is free and no longer suffers, for that we are grateful.
Joan never lost her faith in God, we know that we will see her again when our time comes.
And when we do, we will laugh, we will cry and we will show love.
She leaves behind: her mother, Rita Dugal; her aunt, Rachel Saucier; a clan of Hausleins, John and his wife, Ruth, Joyce, Janet, Kammy-Lee, Jonathan; and a few Savoy’s, Victoria and husband, Jorge, Melynda, and Katrena.
Funeral services will be private; however, we welcome those in the community who knew her to attend her interment 11 a.m. on Tuesday, March 7, at Saint Joseph Cemetery. Arrangements are by Hope Memorial Chapel, 480 Elm St., Biddeford.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be sent to the Diabetes Association.
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