JoAnn Tubis Doolittle Funches
December 1, 1945 - April 27, 1994
She was a dedicated wife and mom who worked for Germantown Hospital & Medical Center as an Ultrasound Technologist.
She never knew a stranger. She had an ability to reach out to others in their sorrow, pain or difficult circumstances. I am proud to say that I never heard her speak ill of anyone. She loved life and the people whose lives crossed her path.
She loved art, poetry, nature. She also loved to dine out and discover new foods and quaint little restaruants!
On December 1, her 43rd birthday, she had surgery which revealed Ovarian Cancer. She had many vague symptoms for months but many of her doctors did not know(the symptoms) or listen to her concerns. She performed an ultrasound on herself and saw fluid in her Fallopian tube. She knew this wasn't good. Her fight to battle this awful disease had begun.
She went through many different rounds of treatments from Chemo to Natural Alternatives, always willing to fight this invader in her body. In April of 1994, on the 27th day early that morning, she took her last breath in her war ravaged body.
We her family are left with her legacy of love and hope for life.
"For we know that when this tent we live in now is taken down--when we die and leave these bodies--we will have wonderful new bodies in heaven, homes that will be ours forevermore, made for us by God himself, and not by human hands."
2 Corinthians 5:1
The Living Bible--paraphrased
