Birth date: Aug 15, 1929 Death date: Mar 26, 2020
Joan E. Lasch (nee King), age 90, of Westlake, passed away on Thursday, March 26, 2020 at Southwest Residential Hospice in Strongsville after a brief illness. She was born on August 15, 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland and had lived in Read Obituary
I just watched the tribute video, and my cheeks are tired from smiling all the way through! What a beautiful life! She and George were such a gorgeous young couple. And I was so touched by the love and devotion I saw from her family. What joyful photos, all the experiences you gave her! Cheering at the game with her sweet son! Hugs from her beautiful daughter. And all those babies! I know you all grieve, but I hope you are comforted by knowing you taught her that there is such joy, such love and healing in a close, loving family. She was a lucky woman, and you were lucky to have her for so long. Though not long enough.
Certainly in every respect these days, a very trying time to grieve; but the great memories will out notwithstanding! After losing my mom (Aunt Joan's sister-in-law) last fall, I find this to be especially difficult because Aunt Joan is among the last of the extended "Four Chimneys Lasch Family" who presided over, and participated in, many of the good and interesting times I remember both at the "big house" in North Ridgeville and at her and Uncle Bud's "neat" house over in Westlake (back in my youth some sixty years ago). Not only was it great to "catch up" on those old days and Aunt Joan when my cousin and her husband, Jim, visited us briefly last summer, but it (now) almost seems fortuitous that I got to talk with Aunt Joan, in person, at my mom's funeral in Cleveland. She looked good, sounded good and I believe that I was truly blessed to be able to spend some time with her then.
My wife and I want to offer our heartfelt condolences to Aunt Joan's immediate family and to all others who've been touched, in big ways or small, by her passing. Although literally decades can elapse between people's visits with each other, and even though life takes some predictable and some not-so-expected twists and turns, the good memories really do--if one is fortunate--stay fixed in the mind's eye for a long, long time. And that makes even Aunt Joan's passing just a little bit easier to bear...
Camille and Marc Bobinsky, Mackinac Island
