Mar 10, 2021 8:00 AM
A giving heart, an industrious soul, a loving and wonderful wife and mother, Joan died peacefully at St. Andrews Village early on March 6, 2021. Despite pandemic restrictions, her daughter Melissa had seen her less than 24 hours before her passing and had let her know how much her family loved and adored her and wanted her spirit to be peacefully released.
The daughter of Duane Stigers and Jean Dickey, Joan was born in Punxsutawney, Pa. on March 28, 1932. Raised in Indiana, she attended Horace Mann School and graduated from Indiana High School. When the Indiana Junior High school underwent renovations in the early 2000’s, she was the driving force behind saving the bas-relief of a WWI doughboy on its north side.