Joan Garland

Joan Garland

1933-2015

Joan Barbara Garland (Woolverton) was born May 12, 1933, in Superior, Wis. and was called home on July 3, 2015, in San Antonio. She was raised in Marinette, Wis. and at age 18 joined the US Army in 1951, married Derrell E. Woolverton Sr. on Sept. 6, 1952 and was an Army wife for 22 years. She was an East Texas OS CN and an LVN at Baylor, she also worked at schools in San Antonio, Kemp and Canton. She loved to take care of the elderly at Arlington Villa in Arlington, and the nursing homes in Canton. She loved arts and crafts, crocheting, fishing, dominoes, and when she was growing up her love was for ice speed skating. When her husband retired from the Army she retired from Baylor Hospital and they moved from Dallas where they had been living to Gun Barrel City in 1979.  In 1999 she and her son Derrell moved to Ft. Worth to live with her daughter Mary Hamilton, and she lived with her until her death.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Turner and Bernice Garland; granddaughter, Lee Ann Avant and husband, Derrell E. Woolverton Sr.

Joan is survived by her brother, John Turner Garland, of St. Paul, Minn.; sister, Judy Sobczak of Eugene, Ore.; her children, Derrell E. Woolverton Jr., of Burleson; Mary Hamilton of Burleson; Barbara Cannada and husband James, of Canton and Laura Avant and husband Doyle of Payne Springs; five grandchildren, Jay Woolverton, of Mabank; Celena Cannada of Omaha, Neb.; Serena Burelsmith, of Payne Spring; Melanie Cannada of Benton, Ark. and Stephen Cannada of Longview; eight great-grandchildren, Natasha Woolverton, Patch Moulton, Macayla Woolverton, Austin Burelsmith, Clayton Burelsmith, Bradyn Burelsmith, Shine Shuey, and Vinnie Burnhagan, and a host of nephews and nieces.

Funeral service was held Friday, July 10, 2015, at Moorhead Epps Funeral Home.
Burial followed at Old Bethel Cemetery, Phalba.