Joanie's obituary as it appeared in our local newspaper, The Union Democrat, on Wednesday, April 28.
Joan ‘Joanie’ Marie Carle
May 6, 1946 — April 10, 2010
Twain Harte resident Joan “Joanie” Marie Carle died April 10 at Memorial Medical Center in Modesto. She was 63. She was born in Glendale and lived in Twain Harte for 31 years. She worked as an elementary school teacher for 36 years, 27 of those years in Sonora at Mother Lode Adventist Junior Academy.
She was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, Sonora Seventh-day Adventist Church and Mother Lode Art Association. She spent one year as a missionary in Hong Kong, and traveled around the world on the way back. She enjoyed traveling and painting, especially watercolors.
She is survived by her husband of 35 years, Lance Carle, of Twain Harte; a son, Troy Carle, of Auburn, Wash.; a sister, Brenda Holden, of Riverside; five nieces and nephews; and two in-laws.
She was preceded in death by her father, Bob Hoatson, in 1989; her mother, Louise Hoatson-Carr in 2010. Services were held April 17 at the Sonora Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Donations can be made to the Art Education Fund, Reading Program Fund at the Mother Lode Adventist Junior Academy, 80 N. Forest Road, Sonora, CA 95370.
**I've posted some pictures of Joanie through the years. They can be viewed at: JoanieHoatsonCarle.shutterfly.com with "Joanie" as the password.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
April 29, 2010
I've posted some pictures of Joanie through the years. They can be viewed at: JoanieHoatsonCarle.shutterfly.com with "Joanie" as the password.
A long time friend, Janine B, wrote these kind words about Joanie..."Just a couple of recollections of times long before Troy was born: One Halloween in the 70's when we had no money but lots of energy Joanie thought up a great way for us to have fun at Halloween. A bunch of us (all about the age Troy is now) dressed up as ghosts wearing sheets and crawled on our knees up to the front doors of our friends' and parents' houses to trick or treat. None of them guessed who we were until we threw off the sheets and screamed, "Trick or Treat." Then there was hilarious laughter by all. I don't remember that we got any treats but we sure had fun.
Another time when Joanie was living in the house next door to her parents she had mono and had a terrible sore throat. She had just bought a gorgeous set of yellow and white dishes at Abacus in Pasadena. She had gone to look at the dishes about 8 times before they finally went on sale. She was always making sure nobody broke any of those dishes. When she got up in the night with the sore throat, she desperately wanted ice chips, but the ice cubes had sort of frozen together into one big lump in the freezer. Of course Joanie was still half asleep when she got the idea to break them apart. So she put the lump of ice into one of her new yellow and white bowls and then hit it hard with a hammer. Naturally the ice cubes stayed together in one big lump but the bowl ended up in pieces all over the floor. I still remember how hard Joanie laughed in relating this to us at school.
I also remember the time Joanie was teaching second grade at Glendale and one of her students kept bringing her the ugliest pieces of jewelry. Joanie kindly told him thank you and just kept shoving the jewelry into the back of her desk drawer. About 2 weeks and 10 pieces of jewelry later the little boy's mother showed up at Joanie's classroom in a frantic state. Her missing jewelry was worth tens of thousands of dollars. Joanie never did figure out if the mother was more upset because the boy had given it to his teacher or because Joanie had just pushed it into the drawer thinking it was really awful junk jewelry.
Joanie not only had an infectious sense of humor, she also was the first to laugh at herself. She was always kind of others but never took herself too seriously. She was a talented artist, a curious learner, and a person who lived life with joyful enthusiasm. I will carry with me the good memories of the times Joanie and I spent together as students at La Sierra and as colleagues and friends at Glendale Academy..."
I've posted some pictures of Joanie through the years. They can be viewed at: JoanieHoatsonCarle.shutterfly.com with "Joanie" as the password.
A long time friend, Janine B, wrote these kind words about Joanie..."Just a couple of recollections of times long before Troy was born: One Halloween in the 70's when we had no money but lots of energy Joanie thought up a great way for us to have fun at Halloween. A bunch of us (all about the age Troy is now) dressed up as ghosts wearing sheets and crawled on our knees up to the front doors of our friends' and parents' houses to trick or treat. None of them guessed who we were until we threw off the sheets and screamed, "Trick or Treat." Then there was hilarious laughter by all. I don't remember that we got any treats but we sure had fun.
Another time when Joanie was living in the house next door to her parents she had mono and had a terrible sore throat. She had just bought a gorgeous set of yellow and white dishes at Abacus in Pasadena. She had gone to look at the dishes about 8 times before they finally went on sale. She was always making sure nobody broke any of those dishes. When she got up in the night with the sore throat, she desperately wanted ice chips, but the ice cubes had sort of frozen together into one big lump in the freezer. Of course Joanie was still half asleep when she got the idea to break them apart. So she put the lump of ice into one of her new yellow and white bowls and then hit it hard with a hammer. Naturally the ice cubes stayed together in one big lump but the bowl ended up in pieces all over the floor. I still remember how hard Joanie laughed in relating this to us at school.
I also remember the time Joanie was teaching second grade at Glendale and one of her students kept bringing her the ugliest pieces of jewelry. Joanie kindly told him thank you and just kept shoving the jewelry into the back of her desk drawer. About 2 weeks and 10 pieces of jewelry later the little boy's mother showed up at Joanie's classroom in a frantic state. Her missing jewelry was worth tens of thousands of dollars. Joanie never did figure out if the mother was more upset because the boy had given it to his teacher or because Joanie had just pushed it into the drawer thinking it was really awful junk jewelry.
Joanie not only had an infectious sense of humor, she also was the first to laugh at herself. She was always kind of others but never took herself too seriously. She was a talented artist, a curious learner, and a person who lived life with joyful enthusiasm. I will carry with me the good memories of the times Joanie and I spent together as students at La Sierra and as colleagues and friends at Glendale Academy..."
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