Joanna Hursh

Joanna F. Hursh, age 53, of Curtiss, passed away peacefully on , May 8, 2022, at the home of Joseph and Esther Mast with family close by, 13 months after being diagnosed with cancer.

Visitation/viewing hours are Thursday, May 12, 2022, from 2-4 p.m. & 6-8 p.m. at the Athens Mennonite Church and the funeral service will be on Friday, May 13, 2022, at 10 a.m. also at the Athens Mennonite Church with burial at the church cemetery. Officiating will be Paul Miller, Clair Weaver, Jalon Horst and Enos Martin. Serving as pallbearers will be Joseph Hursh, Noah Hursh, David Hursh, Lowell Miller, Daniel Burkholder and Joseph Mast.

The Maurina-Schilling Funeral Home in Abbotsford is assisting the family with arrangements.

Joanna was born on May 3, 1969, to Joseph K. & Mary L. (Fox) Hursh at Denver, Pa. She completed her formal education at the Unity Mennonite School, Unity.

Joanna taught school for a few years, and then spent a number of years serving as a foster care provider. She adopted her daughter and then poured her energies into raising her daughter while teaching special ed students and writing books over the last number of years. She will be greatly missed, especially by her daughter, Cynthia, as well as the rest of her siblings, parents and others her life touched.

She is survived by her daughter, Cynthia Hursh; parents, Joseph & Mary Hursh of Greenwood; siblings: Mary Hursh, Ephrata, Pa., Joseph (Joanna) Hursh, Keota, Okla., (Joseph) Esther Mast, Abbotsford, Ruth Hursh, Ephrata, Pa., Noah (Faith) Hursh, Stanley, (Sheldon) Eunice Zimmerman, Owen, David (Esther) Hursh, Greenwood, and (Paul) Rebekah Zimmerman, Loyal; 28 nieces and 26 nephews.

She was preceded in death by her grandparents: Joseph & Leah Hursh and Martin & Suie Fox.

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