Joan Koepke passed from this life peacefully in her sleep on November 8th 2018. She was proceeded in death by her husband Frank and son Mark, her father and mother Elroy and Esther Haltner and brother Robert.
Joan is survived by her three daughters Deborah, Sarah and Rebecca and son Timothy, 12 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.
Born Joan Dorothy Haltner on May 27th 1932 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Joan married her husband of 56 years Frank Koepke on June 7th 1952. Soon after marriage they served as Missouri Synod Lutheran missionaries for 10 years in Japan. After returning from Japan they served as Pastor and wife at Concordia Lutheran in Burlington, Iowa and Immanuel Lutheran in Sandy, Oregon.
Joan was an accomplished classical vocalist. She was a member of the Portland Symphonic Choir and regularly sang with the church choir.
In her working life she was an administrative secretary at Chittenden and Eastman Company in Burlington and at Sandy High School as the multimedia librarian.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Ascension Lutheran Church.