After 93 remarkable years, Joen Louise Patterson passed away peacefully on Thursday, July 13, 2023, with her family by her side.

Jo was born on May 4th, 1930, in Los Angeles, California. She and her husband Max, also departed, moved to Nevada City in 1992. She had been a resident of Grass Valley since 2006.

Jo was a wife, a mother, a medical records specialist. She was an artist, an opera-lover, a reader, a gardener, a quilter, a solver of Saturday New York Times crossword puzzles. She was not, to her husband’s chagrin, a very good bridge player.

Jo was kind, loving, and patient. (Usually.) And whip-smart to the very end. She will be forever missed by her family and friends.

She is survived by her three children, Lavonne Avis, Julie Patterson Hunter, and Douglas Patterson; her younger sister Coreen Young; and Julie’s husband, Dutch Hunter, along with several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Simple arrangements are under the direction of Hooper & Weaver Mortuary. A celebration of Jo’s life will be held by the family in the future.