Joan Gladys Sterrie

Franklin, NC - Joan Gladys Sterrie slipped out of her worn out body with her daughter Kris by her side, Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at a local nursing home. She was a native of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the daughter of the late Grant Leo and Mona Guge Fuller. She was married to the late Peter M. Sterrie, who passed away in 2006.

Known by her friends as Jo, she was entirely devoted to her family. She had a wonderful sense of humor and could always see the funny in everything, a trait that she passed on to her family. She was smart, business minded and missed helping with sales in her daughter’s frame shop and gallery. Jo loved her grandchildren, the Atlanta Braves, her friends, cats and wild birds. Like her husband, Jo agreed that her greatest accomplishment in life was that her children loved her and wanted her around. She will be dearly missed by all who had the privilege of crossing paths with her.

She is survived by two daughters, Kris Sterrie of Franklin, NC and Jane Sterrie Escalera, and her husband Emile, of College Park, Georgia; one son, Richard Sterrie and his wife Patricia of Maryville, TN; three grandchildren, Grant and Emily Sterrie and Yuri Escalera; one great-granddaughter, Lucy Sterrie.

Thank you to all the angels that helped Kris with caregiving the last three years, Nina, Bette, Janice and Chris to name a few.

No services are planned. Memorials can be made to Hospice House Foundation at PO Box 815, Franklin, NC 28744.

Bryant-Grant Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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