Obituary of Joan Mae Hayden

 JOAN MAE HAYDEN (nee GRAHAM, formerly FOX) of Marlton, NJ.

September 20, 1937 – January 18, 2021.

Legacy

Devoted mother (second mother) of Edward (Denise) Fox of Collingswood, NJ; Donald (Patricia) Fox of Maple Shade, NJ; Kenneth (Joseph Villarba) Fox formerly of Los Angeles, CA: and Steven (Paulina) Fox. Loving grandmother of Meghan Morris of Glenn Allen, VA and of Serafina Fox and Vincent Fox. Dear friend, second aunt, and second grandmother of her sons’ spouses’ families in NJ, PA, and the West Coast: the Rabzak, Higgins/Green, Villarba, and Scopelliti families.

Dear sister of Betty J. "BettyJane" (E. Robert) Gibbons of Wellington, FL. Dear aunt of E. Robert Gibbons, Jr., of Wellington, FL; Karen (Richard) Klotz of Royal Palm Beach, FL; Lori D’Alessandro of Beech Mountain, NC; Kevin (Marlene Sanchez) Gibbons of Port St. Lucie, FL; and Joanne (Barry) Sarkisian of Royal Palm Beach, FL. 

Loving friend to the staff and residents of Woodbury Mews Senior Living Community in Woodbury, NJ, where she felt at home with smiles, song, laughter, and caring for the past nine years. Many other family and friends in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida. 

A funeral mass of the resurrection will be held at noon on Saturday, January 30, 2021. The in-person service will be private for Joan’s sons, spouses, and grandchildren. All are invited to attend electronically via http://client.tribucast.com/tcid/139701723. Joan had requested folks to abide by New Jersey’s Covid-19 restrictions and to remember her aunt Alice Graham, who during the Global Influenza Pandemic of 1918 saved Joan’s father Clair “Reds” Houser Graham, their three siblings, and their parents before succumbing to the virus herself.

A private committal burial service will be held at Harleigh Cemetery in Camden, where Joan’s remains will be placed alongside her father and mother, Elsie Mae Graham (nee Hyatt). Please share your name and contact information with McGuiness Funeral Home or one of Joan’s sons so that they may invite you to an in-person celebration of her life after New Jersey’s Covid-19 restrictions are lifted.

In lieu of flowers and for anyone wishing to make a charitable gift or act in Joan's memory, her family would appreciate your support of Cathedral Kitchen in Camden, NJ, Joan’s birthplace. https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/donatetoCK Cathedral Kitchen was founded over 40 years and 1,000,000 meals ago after Saint Mother Theresa of Calcutta, Joan’s favorite female saint and role model, visited Camden in 1976.

“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.”  Matthew 25:35-36