Helen Joanne Wilson

Helen "Joanne" Wilson, 95, of Coshocton passed away Friday, June 5, 2026 at Lafayette Nursing and Rehabilitation in West Lafayette. 

Born in Guernsey County, OH on May 21, 1931 to the late Alfred Adolphus "A.A." and Helen Eleanor (Hutton) Kerr.

Joanne graduated from New Concord High School and married the late Tony Harvey George Wilson on October 13, 1951 in Shelbyville, Indiana. She was then briefly employed at Champion Sparkplug in Fairdale and started nursing training and a career working in the Lab at Cambridge State Hospital, in Cambridge, OH. Joanne later started her own business called "Joanne's Slenderoma". Before, she and her husband purchased property and started Coshocton County Memory Gardens in 1961 and later purchased Mt. Vernon Memorial Gardens in Mt. Vernon, OH. Later moving and living in Naples, Florida for several years, then later returning to Coshocton.

Joanne is preceded in death by her husband and her three sons, Mark Steven, Joseph Keith, and Brad Alan Wilson; brothers Willian Byron Kerr of Orlando, Florida and Alfred Wayne Kerr of Coshocton.

Joanne is survived by her daughter, Toni Lynn (Raymond Shaffer) Andrews of Coshocton; granddaughter Candace (Eric) Wilson - Shroyer of PA; three great grandchildren Kaleb, Kyley, and Kadence; special family, Therese A. Wagner of Naples, FL, Kara and Rusty Guilliams of TN, Randy and Marilyn Shingler of Mt. Vernon, Nancy and Mike Richard of West Lafayette, OH, and Suzanne Geib Ames of Coshocton; and her two special cats, Vinny and Kitkat.

Joanne loved to golf and participated on a Hill Top Golf Course league and traveled around the Coshocton County, Ohio, and Florida golfing.

Private family services will be held at Coshocton County Memory Gardens.