Joan B. Rickey, 85, of Sarasota, FL, died peacefully at home on Dec. 21, 2015. Joan lived a wonderful life including performing as an aerialist with the Ringling Bros. Circus and many other circuses throughout the US, Europe and Cuba. She worked in Real Estate and owned and managed The Sea Ranch Apts. on Phillippi Creek. She is now, once again, one with the Universe. She also was firmly convinced that she had been abandoned on the wrong planet, because the one she was supposed to live on was inhabited by kind, logical, peaceful people who always used correct grammar and spelling. Survivors include her daughters Michele Chapman, Deborah Chapman and Stephanie Dubsky, grandchildren David Chapman and his wife, Megan, Jessica Chapman, Natalia VanReenen and her husband, Lucien, Julia Dubsky and three great-grandchildren. She will live on through all of us, passing her strength, integrity, honesty and passion on to all of her descendants. We could never have asked for a better mother and feel sorry for those who didn’t have the privilege to know her. She will be sorely missed.