October 3, 1932 ~ August 31, 2018
Joan Aurelia ILister) Dearborn passed away August 31, 2018. She was 85. She was born October 3, 1932.
She is survived by four children, Patricia Graham, Kathleen Sale, Vivian Woolsey and Lawrence E. Dearborn Jr.; 15 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren.
She loved to sing gospel and country music with her family and friends. Growing up in Maine she sang for the “Lister Quartet" with siblings Janet, Donny and Danny. Her family moved to Lomita, California and there she met and married Lawrence Everett Dearborn Sr. They raised their children and retired in Big Bar, California. She loved fishing, camping and water skiing. She was a volunteer of the Downriver Fire Jills.
Funeral services were held at Northern California Veterans Cemetery at Igo, California.
I’d like the memory of me
to be a happy one.
I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles
when life is done.
I’d like to leave an echo whispering
softly down the ways.
Of happy times and laughing times
and bright and sunny days.
I’d like the tears of those who grieve,
to dry before the sun.
Of happy memories that I leave
when life is done.
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