Joan Cauley
COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown native Joan Ann Cauley, 78, who practiced her skills as a food-service manager at hospitals and, later, joined Cooperative Extension, passed away early Saturday morning, Jan. 30, 2021, at Memorial Hospital Jacksonville, in Jacksonville, Fla. She lived in Lake Wales, Fla,
Joan lived most of her life in New York State. She was born on Nov. 10, 1942, at Bassett Hospital, a daughter of Edward Louis Kirn, Sr. and Mollie Marie Oblak Kirn.
Raised on the family farm in Hartwick, she attended Snowden Hill School No. 1, a one-room schoolhouse that still stands and, coincidentally, is the same one her mother attended.