Joan Helen Stocker

Joan Helen Stocker, age 78, passed away peacefully on Thursday

evening May 9th into the loving arms of her Lord and Savior Jesus

Christ at Everett hospital following a short illness.

Joan, commonly known by her nickname “Tootie” from her

childhood, was born September 11, 1940 in Snohomish to Conrad

and Alma (Vogel) Stocker. She was a lifelong and active member

of Zion Lutheran Church, Snohomish. She graduated from

Snohomish High School in 1960, a year later than normal due to an

earlier bout with polio as a child. She survived the illness, but had

some after effects that lasted her lifetime. She belonged to the

“Post Polio” group in Snohomish County that met regularly.

Following high school, Tootie attended and graduated from Everett

Junior College. She was employed by ESD 189 for area schools for

many years, both in Everett and in Mt. Vernon. She loved to travel,

having traveled to Europe several times on tours Alaska and

Caribbean cruises and around the U.S. for family visits and

sightseeing.

Her Lord and Savior and her church were of great importance to

her as she attended many functions in Lutheran churches in the

Snohomish and Everett areas. Tootie was also involved in

Snohomish County Thrivent chapter, Braille Workers at Immanuel

Lutheran, the Everett Civic Music and state fraternal congress

functions.

Tootie is survived by her brother, Glenn C. Stocker and wife Joan

C. of Selah, WA and nieces and nephews Shereen Stocker of Selah,

WA, Eric & Rebecca Stocker of Peterson, MN, Susan Juel Bork &

Brett Bork of Ripon, WI, Jonathan & Saige Stocker of Eagle, ID

and their families and many friends and her church family too

many to mention and many cousins. She was proceeded in death

by her parents Conrad (Barney) and Alma Stocker.

Funeral services of celebration for her life will be held on

Saturday, May 25th at Zion Lutheran Church, Snohomish at 10:30

a.m. followed by internment at Zion Cemetery and a celebration

luncheon at the church.

Special thanks are given to her cousins Ron and Joyce Johnson,

Dale and Janet Bernhardt Grant and Alan Stocker, and others of

her church family for their care and loving concern over the years

and in her final days. And we all rejoice in the knowledge of her

presence in Heaven with our Lord and Savior where there is Grace

eternal and lasting love and freedom from illness.

Memorials may be made to Zion Lutheran School, Snohomish, to

the Lutheran Hour Ministries or to the charity of your choice.

Our time on earth is simply a drop in the bucket of time compared

to eternity. We are simply traveling through from earth to eternity.

From tribulation to triumph. From Cross to Crown. From Grace to

glory. Heaven is our goal. And it is worth it.