JOANNA JAVORSKY Sept. 26, 1939 – April 16, 2021

Joanna Javorsky was born on September 26, 1939 and died from long term poor health on April 16, 2021 at 4:55 p.m. in Los Alamos Medical Center. Her loving husband Charles, their son Peter, and dear friend Loraine were with her.

She is survived by her husband, son and brother-in-law Frank and his wife.

Joanna spent her early years in Gary, Indiana, with her father and mother Larry and Esther Castle. They moved to Spokane, Washington, where Joanna completed junior and senior high school. She was an excellent trumpet player, achieving first chair status in her band despite many attempts to unseat her. She continued her happy playing as part of the marching band at Washington State University.

After college, she married Charles Javorsky with whom she spent the last 59 years together in Los Alamos, New Mexico. A gifted piano player, she also taught herself to paly the saxophone and banjo. She loved horses and gardening. Her dinner-plate-sized dahlias were well-known and enjoyed by her neighbors. She enjoyed thunderstorms and snowstorms and was worried that we hadn’t many of them lately. When winter drove her inside, she used her talent to tend houseplants. A neighbor commented that whenever Joanna looked after the neighbor’s yard, it always looked better when she was finished.

In addition, she developed a love for and skill in knitting and spent many years crafting garments. One of her treasured memories involved helping Valentina Devine knit and assemble the 19-pound costumes for Deuteronomy and Gus the Theater Cat in the Traveling Show production of Cats.

Joanna believed in ETs and UFOS sightings. She liked to relate her experience of Sept. 24, 2007 when she spotted a daylight craft overhead in a clear, cloudless sky at 3:15 p.m. She saw a cigar-shaped object that was as large as an aircraft carrier going at an excessive speed. It took the craft five seconds to cover the distance from directly above the house to southeast horizon.

So now Joanna has become part of the spirit world and a universal consciousness. May God bless those who carry on, with thanks for the prayers and blessings of family and friend.