Obituary of JoAnn Austa Wirt

JoAnn Austa Wirt was born to Austin and Carrie Follett on January 19, 1930 in Liberal, Kansas. She was the youngest of three girls. Fara Delores and Phyllis LaVerne are her two older surviving sisters. When JoAnn was a teenager the family moved from Liberal, Kansas to Riverside, California. She attended and graduated from La Sierra Academy and went onto attend college at Loma Linda University. She graduated with an Associate’s Degree in Secretarial Sciences. She married Leland Wallace in 1050 and in 1959 gave birth to her oldest daughter, Winona Ann. They divorced several years later and in 1965 JoAnn remarried Richard T. Wirt. In September 2, 1966 their daughter Nancy Rachelle was born. In 1982, JoAnn and Richard left Southern California to live in the country. They relocated to Merlin, Oregon where they lived for almost 20 years. They loved the loved the climate and warm people of Southern, Oregon. They finally had the land and quietness they had wanted. When Richard finally retired they moved once again. This time they moved to Puyallup, Washington in 2001. She leaves daughters Winona and Nancy; and with one grandson, Austin. Bible verse: 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.“