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JEB Stuart High School Classes of 1961 - 2015 |
Deceased Classmate: Joanne Charrette
Date Of Birth: 1948
Date Deceased: 10-1986
Age at Death: 38
Cause of Death:
Classmate City: Falls Church
Classmate State: VA
Classmate Country: USA
Survived By: Brother, James "Jimmy" Charrette, who is also a Stuart HS alumni.
George Clark (Clark) (1968)
George Clark (Clark) (1968)
Joanne Charrette was my childhood neighbor; and hence, Joanne was part of my childhood, going all the way back to 4th grade at Sleepy Hollow Elementary School. Joanne lived a few houses away, at the cul-de-sac of Walters Woods Drive. My childhood home was at nearby Copa Court.
I feel badly that I did not attend Joanne's funeral, in 1986. I did not attend because I did not know about it. I was living in Maryland, at the time; and before that, I was living in North Carolina; and before that, I was in the Army. And without social media, in those days; I lost touch with all those childhood neighbors, who lived in Malbrook and Walters Woods, all of whom are Stuart HS alumni, from the Sixties. So, we all knew each other; we all hungout together; and we all knew and liked Joanne.
Since I missed Joanne's funeral, I feel the least that I can do is contribute a photo of Joanne to our alumni website, here. I scanned it from the 1965 yearbook. Joanne is listed as a Junior, in that yearbook. The yearbook identfies her full name as "Joanne Marie Charrette".
Even as a child and into her teens, all of us neighborhood children knew that Joanne had a health issue. My recollection is that it was epilepsy. But not sure whether that was the cause of death, at age 38.
Joanne, of course, had a brother, named James "Jimmy" Charrette, who graduated with the Class of 1965. Jimmy was one year older than Joanne. I knew Joanne better than I knew Jimmy.