Post Messenger Recorder -

Joan Elaine Buol, age 87, from Garner, North Carolina, departed earthly life July 11, 2022. Joan was born in Montrose Township, Dane County, Wisconsin, on June 27, 1935, and was the oldest child of Glenn and Ethel (Rindy) Showers.

She attended a one-room country schoolhouse through 6 grades before her family moved to a dairy farm in Exeter Township near Belleville, Wisconsin, where she completed grade school and graduated from Belleville High School in 1953. After earning her B.S. degree in Business Education in 1957 from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, she taught high school business and math courses in Albany, Wisconsin, from 1957 to 1960. On July 9, 1960, she was united in marriage to Stanley W. Buol in the Swiss Reform Church in Belleville, Wisconsin. The couple lived in Tucson, Arizona, from 1960 to 1966, during which a son, Gregory, and a daughter, Glenda, were born. In 1966, the family moved to Garner, North Carolina. Within a few years the family started attending Saint Andrews United Methodist Church in Garner, and Joan soon assumed the task of Financial Secretary, a position she served for 38 years. In addition she worked with the church's Meals on Wheels program, delivering meals to shut-ins in the Garner area. She also occasionally accepted part-time secretarial/bookkeeping work for local offices.

Joan was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Glenn Jr. (Bud) Showers; and daughter, Glenda.

She is survived by her husband, Stanley; son, Gregory and wife Mary; granddaughter, Ashley; brother, Tom Showers and wife Mary; sisters-in-law, JoAnn Buol Seymour (Jim) and Rita Showers; and nieces and nephews.