Joanne Valerie Timmel

The daughter of Lt. Colonel Joseph Moxley and Lucille Moxley, who worked at Lever Brothers, Joanne was born in Baltimore in 1954 and raised in Lutherville-Timonium, MD, where she graduated from Dulaney High School.

Joanne graduated from Towson State in 1978 with a Bachelors of Science in Nursing (BSN). She earned a Masters in Science of Nursing, Health Systems Management concentration (MSN) from Johns Hopkins University in 2010.

Throughout her career, Joanne was a safety nurse, a hospice nurse, a home care nurse, and urgent care nurse. She was most proud of her being the nurse manager of Weinberg 4C/D, a surgical oncology inpatient unit at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from 2004 -(2014?) where she developed an extremely strong CUSP program (Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program) with active multi-disciplinary participation and developed specific plans to reduce threats to patient safety. For example, this team was able to convince hospital administration to cohort hepato-biliary patients on our unit which allowed nursing staff to join physicians on rounds, identify daily goals for each patient, develop nursing expertise with these complicated patients, and produce high physician engagement with the unit. While at Hopkins, she created and led the Department of Surgical Nursing Retention & Recognition committee, inviting speakers and reading journal articles and allowing representatives to share experiences from each of their 12 units and focusing on work environment improvement. And she designed and implemented a departmental palliative care committee to educate surgical nurses to identify opportunities for palliative care in the surgical patient population. She was fond of hiring new grads to her unit and training them to be strong, compassionate nurses, some of whom became managers later.

Joanne was a clinical instructor at 3 nursing schools: Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Towson University, and Stevenson.

Joanne was diagnosed in February 2022 with metastatic

cancer. Despite this diagnosis, she lived to travel to Maine one more time with girlfriends. Joanne had such a zest for learning and an indomitable interest in how the world worked that she signed up to audit courses even after her stage 4 cancer diagnosis.

In 1979 she married Daniel Jahn Timmel, and together they raised two children, Jennifer and Matthew.

Her hobbies included restoring the 250-year old log cabin she lived in, gardening, and traveling to Europe. She will be remembered for her sharp, scientific mind, her generous spirit, and her curiosity about the world around her in the areas of art, music, politics, and social justice.

She is survived by her children, Jennifer Dalrymple, of Baltimore and Matthew Timmel of Horsham, PA, and her siblings, Paul Moxley of Perry Hall and Suzanne McElwee, of White Marsh.

Funeral will be held at Church of the Resurrection in 11525 Greenspring Avenue, Timonium, MD 21093 on Sunday, January 22 at 2pm. Reception to follow.

In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be made to the Helping Up Mission, 1029 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21202.