Joan T. Kowalchuk of Peconic died on June 23, 2013. She was 84 years old.
She was born in Brooklyn on June 3, 1929 to Alexander and Veronica Doyle.
After graduation from Garden City High School, she married Benjamin Kowalchuk on April 26, 1950 in Garden City.
Formerly a resident of Hicksville for over thirty years, she has been a North Fork resident for the past 31 years.
Joan was a homemaker, a volunteer with AHRC in Nassau County for fifteen years, a Girl Scout leader and a member of the Peconic Homemakers.
She is survived by her husband, Benjamin; four children: Richard Kowalchuk of Midlothian, Va., Susan Kowalchuk of Emmaus, Pa., Patricia Kowalchuk of Melville and William Kowalchuk of Southampton; two sisters, Carole Power and Faith Corcoran both of Jupiter, Fl. and six grandchildren: Alyssa, Ariel, Adria, Morgan, William and Brandon.
The family will receive friends on Tuesday, June 25 from 4 to 8 p.m. at the DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Southold. Graveside services and interment will take place on Wednesday, June 26 at 11:30 a.m. at the Cemetery of the Holy Rood in Westbury.
