Joanna Lee Swisher

On May 6, 2017, Joanna Lee Swisher, 86, of Ormond Beach, FL, got her wish of meeting Jesus face to face. She was born in Greenville, Ohio, to Adrian and George Weaver on July 22, 1930. She was the big sister to Norma Jean Weaver. She graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio in 1952 and received her degree in Art Education, with a minor in Biology. Joanna taught for 2 years and then she went on to get her Masters Degree in Education from OSU. She then taught for the Upper Arlington School District for 26 years. Her schools included Fishinger, Wickliffe, Burbank, Hastings, and Windermere schools. Beginning in 1990, Joanna was part of the Discipline Based Art Education Program in partnership with the Getty Institute for a number of years. She retired in 1993 and said that her rewards were the love and hugs of her students, the excitement of seeing her students enjoy art, and the compliments from her parents, staff and community. She was saved at the age of 30 under the discipleship of Trish Fulgham and Dr. Gannet in Birmingham, Alabama. In 2003, at the age of 73, Joanna moved to Ormond Beach, Florida. She had been a member of First Baptist Church of Daytona and Palm Coast and she was currently a member at Providence Church. She was married to Dale Hugo of Columbus, Ohio, and then to Warren Swisher of Springfield, Ohio. Joanna is survived by her daughters Pam Crowell (Skip) of Ormond Beach, FL and Judy Jackson (John) of Westhall, Suffolk, United Kingdom and her daughter Michelle Labrador(Ivan) of St.Cloud. She loved her grandchildren Lori Lodge, Chris Jackson, Jenna Foster, Katie Jackson and her great-grandchildren Collins Foster, Eric, Gabby and Rebecca Labrador very much. Her celebration of life will be on, Friday, August 4, 2017, beginning at the Craig Flagler Palms Funeral Home on Old Kings Rd. at 11 a.m. and then following with a reception at the cafe at Providence Church on Granada in Ormond Beach. Her celebration of life and interment will be on August 6, 2017, at 2 p.m. at the Greenville Union Cemetery, Greenville, Ohio.