JoAn Teetor Marder 5/11/1928 - 4/26/2015 JoAn Teetor Marder, beloved wife, mother and grandmother, of Tucson, Arizona, passed away Sunday evening, April 26, after a battle with cancer. She was 86 years old. JoAn was born in Indianapolis to Macy Orville Teetor and Lucille Alcus Teetor on May 11, 1928, and grew up in Newcastle, Indiana. She attended boarding school at Kingswood School Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, graduating in 1946. She went on to major in music at Sweetbriar College in Virginia, and she spent her junior abroad in Paris, studying at the Sorbonne. After graduating from Sweet Briar in 1950, she moved to New York and attended The Katherine Gibbs School. She lived at the Barbizon Hotel for Women, and she worked for Time Inc. in New York for several years, moving to Scarsdale, New York, in 1959, where she raised two children,
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her first husband, R. Daniel Saxe, Jr. She taught piano and was active in local civic affairs for many years, contributing her time and energy to many charitable organizations, including chairing the annual fundraising ball for the White Plains Hospital Women's Auxiliary. In 1985 (after her first marriage ended in divorce), she married . . . , and in 1990 they moved to Tucson, Arizona, where they have been members of the Tucson Country Club. In Tucson, JoAn was a longtime member of the Tucson Patio Garden Club, and she found a new passion for playing tennis. One of her proudest moments was when her Tucson Country Club tennis team went to the Southwestern Sectional Finals. She is survived by her husband, [living family removed for privacy]
There will be a private memorial service at the Teetor Family Mausoleum in Hagerstown, Indiana. JoAn touched so many lives, and she brought joy to everyone who knew her. "She was a wonderful, lovely, gracious lady," said one friend upon hearing the news of her passing. "She will be missed."