Joan Marie Whaley

Published 3:55 pm Thursday, December 26, 2024

Joan Marie Whaley, 65, Johnson City, passed away Monday, December 23, 2024, at Franklin Woods Hospital. She was born May 28, 1959 in Amsterdam, N.Y. She had lived in Tennessee since 1994. 

Joan was a 1977 graduate of Fultonville High School in New York. She graduated from Cazenovia College in 1979. Joan was an employee of the Johnson City Post Office having worked there for 22 years as a mail carrier. She loved her family very much and also her animals. She was of the Methodist Faith.

She was preceded in death by her father, Robert Reynolds.

Survivors include her husband of 33 years, Charles Whaley; three children, John Robert Whaley, Anna Marie Whaley and husband Lanndan Miller, and Zachary Ross Whaley; two grandchildren, Greyson and James Whaley; her mother, Edna Fletcher Reynolds; her sister, Judy DeMagestris;  her brother, Robert Reynolds; and her four-legged furry friends, “Rocky, Max and Maverick.”

Funeral services will be conducted at 7 p.m. Sunday, December 29, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with Pastor Ken Hauser officiating. The graveside service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday, December 30, in the Maple Lawn Cemetery, Jonesborough. Active pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the cemetery at 1:45 p.m. Monday, will be John Whaley, Zachary Whaley, Lanndan Miller and family and friends from the Carter County Sheriff’s Department. Honorary pallbearers will be the staff and friends of the Johnson City Post Office. The family would like to express a special thank you to the staff of the ER, Franklin Woods Hospital, members of the Carter County Sheriff’s Department, family and friends for all the support shown during her illness. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Family and friends will assemble at the cemetery at 1:45 p.m. Monday. Condolences may be sent to the family at our website, www.memorialfcelizabethton.com.

Memorial Funeral Chapel is serving the Whaley family.