Joan Haymond

Joan Helene (Aleck) Haymond, age 82 passed away May 27, 2015 in Colorado Springs. Joan was born September 25, 1932 to Xavier H. and Ella (Koenig) Aleck. The family lived in Fremont, Nebraska where her father worked for Northwestern Bell Telephone Company. As a young girl, Joan spent a lot of time with her grandparents, Herman and Clara Koenig, in Logan, Iowa. In 1950 Joan graduated from Benson High School in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1954 she graduated from University of Omaha with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. Joan was a member of Kountze Memorial Lutheran Church, and sang in the church choir. She studied dance under Donna Kurtz and played the violin in the High School band. In 1958 Joan visited Hereford, Germany, where her grandfather, Herman Koenig was born. Joan resided and worked in Riverside, California for a couple of years, when she came back to Omaha, she worked at Offutt AFB. In 1972 she married Colonel Richard (Dick) Haymond, after retirement, they moved to Monument, Colorado and later to Colorado Springs. Richard passed away in December of 2012. After Dick’s death, Joan moved into a Memory Care Facility, at the MacKenzie Place in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Joan is survived by her step-children, John W. Haymond, Ann H. Roland, Nancy J. Lawson, and Carol Reynolds and cousins, Herma Lou Smith Lane, of Missouri Valley, Iowa, Ardyth Graap of Council Bluffs, Iowa and Geneva Schmielau of Persia, Iowa. Memorials may be sent to the Alzheimers Foundation of America, AFA. A graveside service will be held at 4:00 p.m. Friday, June 12, 2015 at Bethel Cemetery in Logan, Iowa. Pastor Stephen Pera will be officiating. Hennessey Funeral Home in Missouri Valley, Iowa will be handling the arrangements The Nicene Creed I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible. In one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten not made, being of one substance with the father, by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man, and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead, whose kingdom shall have no end. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, who with the father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified, who spake by the Prophets. I believe one holy Christian and Apostolic Church. I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.