Joanne A. Buhler (Joan) of Crescent City, CA. passed away peacefully at home on March 3, 2023. Joan was born in Avoca, Iowa on March 21, 1932.
She moved to California in the 1930s making it up to Crescent City and graduating from the High School in 1949. Joan was a member of the United Methodist Church, active in their events and in the church choir. She was also a member and later on, a board member of the Lighthouse Repertory Theater.
Joan was one of the founding board members of the Pacific Music Guild and she was an accomplished cellist.
She will be dearly missed by her surviving children son Christian and wife Barbara Lanum, daughter Catherine and husband Dan Monaghan, step children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and many friends
Joan was preceded in death by her husbands Eldon Buhler, Robert Seligman, Russell Field, John Benskin, and Clarence Lanum, her children Chuck and Carl Lanum, her parents Carl and Minnie Sondergard, sister Carla Fleming, and brothers Orville and Wendell Sondergard.
Donations may be made in memory of Joan Buhler: Pacific Music Guild, PO Box 1349, Crescent City, CA. 95531. PMG is a non-profit, 501c3
Private inurnment will take place at the IOOF Memorial Cemetery.