JOAN WAS BORN TO JOE C. AND ADDIE G. LOVELAND ON AUGUST 16, 1931 NEAR ROGERSVILLE, MISSOURI, THE YOUNGEST OF THEIR NINE DAUGHTERS. SHE WAS PRE-DECEASED BY HER PARENTS AND   EIGHT SISTERS AND FIVE BROTHERS. HER BROTHERS WERE CLYDE, GEORGE, REX, LEONARD AND JOHN LOVELAND, HER SISTERS WERE INEZ ROACH, HOLLIS HERTZ, EMMA KELLEY, FERN WELCH, LUCY KN0X, LUCILLE KINSER, LOUELLA BARNES, AND EVA GASTON. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND STAN, HER DAUGHTERS CAROLYN EATON, DIXIE GARRETT, DIANA LARIMORE, JUANITA GONZALEZ AND SON STAN & WIFE DEBBIE.  SHE ALSO LEAVES BEHIND 7 GRAND CHILDREN: JASON GONZALEZ, ERIC GONZALEZ & WIFE EVA GONZALEZ, TIM GONZALEZ & WIFE SARAH, SARAH BILLINGS & HUSBAND NATHAN, REBEKAH REDWING & HUSBAND KODY, DANIEL GREENE & WIFE MANDY, HEATHER PRICE & HUSBAND RYAN. ADDITIONALLY, JOAN LEAVES 12 GREAT GRAND CHILDREN, AVANELL BILLINGS, ALLIE BILLINGS, WILLIAM BILLINGS, PARKER GREENE, HUCK GREENE, TWINS GARTH AND DOTTIE GREENE, GRANT PRICE, GARRETT PRICE, SABRINA GONZALEZ, TIMOTHY GONZALEZ, OWEN REDWING, AND JACKSON REDWING. ALSO, SEVERAL NIECES AND NEPHEWS AND MANY FRIENDS.

JOAN ATTENDED ROGERSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL DURING THE 1930'S AND 1940'S.  SHE WAS A MEMBER OF ROGERSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL'S FIRST TWIRLING TEAM AND PARTICIPATED IN MANY H. S. FUNCTIONS AND AREA PARADES.  AFTER H.S. SHE MARRIED HER TEEN AGE LOVE STAN GREENE OF FORDLAND, MO. AND TOGETHER THEY RAISED THEIR 5 CHILDREN, CAROLYN, DIXIE, DIANA, JUANITA AND SON STAN A.

WHILE HER HUSBAND MADE A CAREER IN THE U.S. NAVY, JOAN MAINTAINED THE FAMILY IN THE HOME PORTS AND OTHER LOCATIONS WHERE HE SERVED FOR 24 YEARS.  STAN BEING A SUBMARINER, THEY SOMETIMES HAD LONG SEPERATIONS WHILE HE WAS ON PATROLS.  AS A TRUE NAVY WIFE JOAN KEPT THE HOME FIRES BURNING AND GENTLY CARED FOR ALL THEIR CHILDREN DURING THE LONG SEPERATIONS AND WAS ALWAYS AT THE PIER SIDE TO MEET HIM ON HIS RETURN FROM SEA.

AFTER STAN'S RETIREMENT FROM THE US NAVY, JOAN AND FAMILY MOVED TO ST LOUIS COUNTY WHERE SHE SAW HER CHILDREN FINISH HIGH SCHOOL AND IN SOME INSTANCES COLLEGE AND MARRIAGE.  ALL 5 BECOMING PRODUCTIVE AND PATRIOTIC CITIZENS.

AFTER SPENDING 10 YEARS IN THE ST LOUIS AREA, JOAN AND HUSBAND MOVED BACK TO WEBSTER COUNTY WHERE SHE BECAME ACTIVE IN THE "ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR" AND SERVED AS WORTHY MATRON OF BETHEL CHAPTER IN ROGERSVILLE AND ALSO CRESCENT CHAPTER IN SPRINGFIELD. SHE WAS ALSO APPOINTED AS A GRAND REPRESENTIVE OF MISSOURI TO NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA WHERE SHE TRAVELED AND MET HER CANADIAN COUNTER-PART, TERRESA ANDERSON, AND THEY BECAME LIFE LONG CLOSE FRIENDS.  JOAN WAS LATER APPOINTED DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MATRON FOR WHAT WAS THEN THE 45 ^TH DISTRICT OF MISSOURI WHICH COVERED SPRINGFIELD AND THE SURROUNDING AREA. JOAN IS ALSO A MEMBER OF "SOCIAL ORDER OF THE BEAUCEANT" AND SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THAT ORDER HERE IN SPRINGFIELD. THE "SOOB" IS AN AUXILARY OF THE "YORK RITE COMMANDRY" AND SERVES TO AID AND ENHANCE THAT ORDER OF "SIR KNIGHTS".

JOAN WAS A MEMBER OF ROGERSVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH.  SHE TRANSFERRED HER MEMBERSHIP TO OTHER CHURCHES AS SHE MOVED AROUND THE COUNTRY AND ALWAYS SERVED AS A TEACHER OF BEGINNERS AND JUNIORS.  SHE WAS A MEMBER OF SUNSHINE BAPTIST CHURCH IN SPRINGFIELD AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH.

JOAN WAS VERY MUCH LOVED BY HER LARGE FAMILY, MANY FRIENDS AND RELATIVES AND WILL BE SORELY MISSED BY ALL OF US, BUT WE REST ASSURED THAT SHE HAS TRANSITIONED TO HER HEAVENLY HOME WHERE HER SPIRIT WILL REMAIN CONNECTED WITH ALL OF US FOREVER.

THERE WILL BE A VISITATION AT 10 AM AND FUNERAL SERVICE AT 11 AM ON THURSDAY DEC 15 BOTH AT GORMAN-SCHARPF FUNERAL HOME IN SPRINGFIELD. THE COMMITTAL SERVICE WILL OCCUR AT  10 AM AT MO VETERANS CEMETERY ON DEC 16.