Published November 26, 2017 - Press Enterprise
Joan Billig Fleming, age 79, passed to her eternal home on Nov. 23, 2017. Joan was born in 1938, to Lewis and Carrie Billig and raised on a farm in rural Catawissa. She graduated from Roaring Creek Valley High School in Numidia, in 1955. Joan had three siblings: Ruth Kreischer, Albert Billig, both deceased, and Gladeth O’Gorman who resides in Leesburg, Fla., in the Mayfield Retirement Center.
Joan is survived by her beloved high school sweetheart and husband, Gene K. Fleming. Gene is the son of Samuel and Laura Fleming. He was born and raised in Newlin.
Joan graduated from the Polyclinic Hospital School of Nursing in Harrisburg in 1958, after which Gene and Joan married and moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., and resided there two years while Gene attended graduate school and Joan was employed as an R.N. at UNC Memorial Hospital. She also later worked in a pediatric office in Rockville, Md., and at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital for 12 years, retiring in 1995. They moved to their dream home log cabin on top of Lost Mountain, Romney, W.Va., living there 21 years after which they moved to Menno Haven Retirement Community in Chambersburg, until her passing.
Joan loved cooking, gardening, the outdoors, and reading. She was a member of The Open Door Church in Chambersburg. She and her husband also served the Lord through the Gideons International for 25 years.
She is survived by two daughters: Joan Smith and husband David, of Berkley Springs, W.Va., and Erin Betz and husband Joseph, of Frederick, Md., also two sons, Randal Fleming and wife, Verona, of Smithsburg, Md., and Wesley Fleming and Barbara Menendez of Aspen, Colo.; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Joan loved the Lord Jesus Christ and strove to share His love and His great redemption, which strengthened and sustained her through her three-and-a-half-year survival journey of pancreatic cancer.
A celebration of life service will be held at a date determined by the family.
In memory, contributions can be sent to a local Camp of the Gideons International, to The Open Door Church, 600 Miller St., Chambersburg, PA 17201 for mission support, or to a Christian church of one’s choice.
Joan Billig Fleming, age 79, passed to her eternal home on Nov. 23, 2017. Joan was born in 1938, to Lewis and Carrie Billig and raised on a farm in rural Catawissa. She graduated from Roaring Creek Valley High School in Numidia, in 1955. Joan had three siblings: Ruth Kreischer, Albert Billig, both deceased, and Gladeth O’Gorman who resides in Leesburg, Fla., in the Mayfield Retirement Center.
Joan is survived by her beloved high school sweetheart and husband, Gene K. Fleming. Gene is the son of Samuel and Laura Fleming. He was born and raised in Newlin.
Joan graduated from the Polyclinic Hospital School of Nursing in Harrisburg in 1958, after which Gene and Joan married and moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., and resided there two years while Gene attended graduate school and Joan was employed as an R.N. at UNC Memorial Hospital. She also later worked in a pediatric office in Rockville, Md., and at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital for 12 years, retiring in 1995. They moved to their dream home log cabin on top of Lost Mountain, Romney, W.Va., living there 21 years after which they moved to Menno Haven Retirement Community in Chambersburg, until her passing.
Joan loved cooking, gardening, the outdoors, and reading. She was a member of The Open Door Church in Chambersburg. She and her husband also served the Lord through the Gideons International for 25 years.
She is survived by two daughters: Joan Smith and husband David, of Berkley Springs, W.Va., and Erin Betz and husband Joseph, of Frederick, Md., also two sons, Randal Fleming and wife, Verona, of Smithsburg, Md., and Wesley Fleming and Barbara Menendez of Aspen, Colo.; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Joan loved the Lord Jesus Christ and strove to share His love and His great redemption, which strengthened and sustained her through her three-and-a-half-year survival journey of pancreatic cancer.
A celebration of life service will be held at a date determined by the family.
In memory, contributions can be sent to a local Camp of the Gideons International, to The Open Door Church, 600 Miller St., Chambersburg, PA 17201 for mission support, or to a Christian church of one’s choice.
Published November 26, 2017 - Press Enterprise
Joan Billig Fleming, age 79, passed to her eternal home on Nov. 23, 2017. Joan was born in 1938, to Lewis and Carrie Billig and raised on a farm in rural Catawissa. She graduated from Roaring Creek Valley High School in Numidia, in 1955. Joan had three siblings: Ruth Kreischer, Albert Billig, both deceased, and Gladeth O’Gorman who resides in Leesburg, Fla., in the Mayfield Retirement Center.
Joan is survived by her beloved high school sweetheart and husband, Gene K. Fleming. Gene is the son of Samuel and Laura Fleming. He was born and raised in Newlin.
Joan graduated from the Polyclinic Hospital School of Nursing in Harrisburg in 1958, after which Gene and Joan married and moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., and resided there two years while Gene attended graduate school and Joan was employed as an R.N. at UNC Memorial Hospital. She also later worked in a pediatric office in Rockville, Md., and at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital for 12 years, retiring in 1995. They moved to their dream home log cabin on top of Lost Mountain, Romney, W.Va., living there 21 years after which they moved to Menno Haven Retirement Community in Chambersburg, until her passing.
Joan loved cooking, gardening, the outdoors, and reading. She was a member of The Open Door Church in Chambersburg. She and her husband also served the Lord through the Gideons International for 25 years.
She is survived by two daughters: Joan Smith and husband David, of Berkley Springs, W.Va., and Erin Betz and husband Joseph, of Frederick, Md., also two sons, Randal Fleming and wife, Verona, of Smithsburg, Md., and Wesley Fleming and Barbara Menendez of Aspen, Colo.; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Joan loved the Lord Jesus Christ and strove to share His love and His great redemption, which strengthened and sustained her through her three-and-a-half-year survival journey of pancreatic cancer.
A celebration of life service will be held at a date determined by the family.
In memory, contributions can be sent to a local Camp of the Gideons International, to The Open Door Church, 600 Miller St., Chambersburg, PA 17201 for mission support, or to a Christian church of one’s choice.
Joan Billig Fleming, age 79, passed to her eternal home on Nov. 23, 2017. Joan was born in 1938, to Lewis and Carrie Billig and raised on a farm in rural Catawissa. She graduated from Roaring Creek Valley High School in Numidia, in 1955. Joan had three siblings: Ruth Kreischer, Albert Billig, both deceased, and Gladeth O’Gorman who resides in Leesburg, Fla., in the Mayfield Retirement Center.
Joan is survived by her beloved high school sweetheart and husband, Gene K. Fleming. Gene is the son of Samuel and Laura Fleming. He was born and raised in Newlin.
Joan graduated from the Polyclinic Hospital School of Nursing in Harrisburg in 1958, after which Gene and Joan married and moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., and resided there two years while Gene attended graduate school and Joan was employed as an R.N. at UNC Memorial Hospital. She also later worked in a pediatric office in Rockville, Md., and at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital for 12 years, retiring in 1995. They moved to their dream home log cabin on top of Lost Mountain, Romney, W.Va., living there 21 years after which they moved to Menno Haven Retirement Community in Chambersburg, until her passing.
Joan loved cooking, gardening, the outdoors, and reading. She was a member of The Open Door Church in Chambersburg. She and her husband also served the Lord through the Gideons International for 25 years.
She is survived by two daughters: Joan Smith and husband David, of Berkley Springs, W.Va., and Erin Betz and husband Joseph, of Frederick, Md., also two sons, Randal Fleming and wife, Verona, of Smithsburg, Md., and Wesley Fleming and Barbara Menendez of Aspen, Colo.; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Joan loved the Lord Jesus Christ and strove to share His love and His great redemption, which strengthened and sustained her through her three-and-a-half-year survival journey of pancreatic cancer.
A celebration of life service will be held at a date determined by the family.
In memory, contributions can be sent to a local Camp of the Gideons International, to The Open Door Church, 600 Miller St., Chambersburg, PA 17201 for mission support, or to a Christian church of one’s choice.
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