OBITUARY

Joan (Joie) Crandall Wilson

November 05, 1930 - March 20, 2019

WILSON Joan Marie Crandall (Joie), passed away peacefully at the age of 88½ on March 20, 2019. She was born to Guy and Edith Puff Crandall on November 5, 1930, in Franklinville, NY. Mrs. Wilson’s grandfather, J.J. Crandall, was the District Manager for the Western New York School System, and a curiosity and love for knowledge was a lifelong trait for Mrs. Wilson. Her father, a WWI Navy veteran, remained in the military for much of his career, running radio operations at airports in Rochester and Poughkeepsie, and eventually retired to Franklinville from the Brookville, PA airport.

One of Mrs. Wilson’s favorite recollections was sitting and chatting at the age of four with Eleanor Roosevelt in her father’s Poughkeepsie airport office as Mrs. Roosevelt waited for her airplane to Washington. Mrs. Wilson spent a happy childhood in then thriving Rochester, NY, where she graduated from West High and Miss McCarthy’s Business School. She also attended Jamestown Community College. Mrs. Wilson’s parents vacationed for a month each summer in Franklinville, which is how she met “the love of her life,” as she referred to her husband till the end of her days. They were married on August 26, 1950, in Franklinville in a beautiful outdoor ceremony at the summer home of Dr. and Mrs. Leo Reimann on the hottest day of the year.

Together they built a family and were active members in the community for all their years in Franklinville. Mrs. Wilson initially worked for HiQ in Olean as co-editor of the house magazine, The Condenser, and later worked for many years as confidential executive secretary to Justice Joseph A. Nevins of the Supreme Court of New York State in Olean and later New York State Court of Claims Judge Jeremiah J. Moriarty in Franklinville and Buffalo. Mrs. Wilson was a Girl Scout leader, an active member of the Presbyterian Church, and later a lay minister at the Episcopal Church.

Mrs. Wilson was also passionate about history and genealogy. With her husband, she amassed a huge amount of genealogical information about family and friends in the area, often helping those searching for ancestry information about their families, and later became the Franklinville Historian for some years.

Mrs. Wilson is survived by her husband, Charlie J. Wilson, of Franklinville; her daughter, Cathy Wilson Nohe, of Philadelphia, PA; her granddaughter, Dr. Quinn Wilson Cunningham, of Philadelphia, PA; her son-in-law, CAPT Philip Buchiarelli USNR, of Los Angeles, CA; her grandson, CAPT Eric Buchiarelli USAF, of Las Vegas, NV; and her granddaughter, Paige Buchiarelli Hofherr, of Los Angeles, CA, as well as four great-grandchildren. Mrs. Wilson was predeceased by her son, Paul Alan Wilson, and her daughter, Bonnie Wilson Buchiarelli.

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