Joan Katherine Waizenegger
Joan Katherine Waizenegger, of Middletown, N.Y., passed away Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at Orange Regional Medical Center. She was 78. Born in Middletown on Dec. 15, 1933, a daughter of the late Westley and Gwendolyn Tice Crotty.
Joan retired as a Housekeeper at Valley View Nursing Home Goshen; previous to that she and her husband Sam operated Waizenegger's Confectionary Store in Middletown.
She loved her family; especiafff her grandchildren and her music, she would tend to her garden of flowers as her windchimes would softly play in the breeze; her ice cream and jelly-beans. What will be missed is her holding court at the family kitchen table.
She was the widow of Samuel H. Waizenegger who died on Aug. 27, 2009.
Joan is survived by her five children: daughters, Cathy and her husband, Fred Clarke of Parker, Colo., Deborah and her husband, William Howell of Middletown, sons: John and his wife, Robin of Milford, Samuel H. Jr. and his wife, Marilyn of Pine Bush, N.Y., and Matthew and his wife, Jodi of Pine Bush; her sister-in-law, Carol Crotty of Milford; her grandchildren: Gwen Citriniti and her husband, Dominick, Jennifer Waizenegger, Andrew Waizenegger and his wife, Danielle, Elizabeth Clarke, Billy Howell, Caitlyn Nave and her husband, Seth, Shannon Waizenegger, Thomas Waizenegger, and Zoe Waizenegger; great grand-children, Alex Ford, Madison Mejias, and Mackenzie Nave, and several nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her sister, Patricia McGee; brother, Richard Crotty; and great granddaughter, Courtney Nave.
Friends are invited to call on Friday, March 16 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at Inc., 33 Railroad Ave, Middletown, NY. Funeral services were held at the Morse Funeral Home on Saturday, March 17, with interment in Hillside Cemetery Middletown.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the March of Dimes at http://www.marchforbabies.org/ SCKNave .
Arrangements were under the guidance of Morse Funeral Home Inc, Middletown, NY; 845-343-6918; www. morsefuneralhome.com .