- Joan B. Hoelzer
Virginia Beach - Joan Bentley Hoelzer, 84, of Virginia Beach passed away on Saturday, April 30 at the Memory Center in Virginia Beach. Joan graduated from James Madison University in 1949 and worked as a librarian for many years at David Thoreau Intermediate School in Fairfax, Virginia.
She loved Virginia, the "water", and her children and grandchildren. She is the eldest of five siblings with whom she was very close and who survive her: Edward, Bayne, Susan, and Mary Edith. She is also survived by her daughter, Lark and husband Roy of Littleton, Colorado; her son, Clyde and wife Lynn of Virginia Beach; four grandchildren: Elizabeth, Nicholas, Eric and Brandon and one great grandchild, Lilly.
A memorial fund has been established for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Donations may be made at www.cbf.org/donate/gift-in-honor. A celebration of life ceremony will be held at a later date.
Published in The Virginian Pilot on May 2, 2016
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