Joan Ellen

Degelman

Joan Ellen Russell Degelman 68, passed away on Saturday April 26, 2014. Joan Russell was born in Jersey City, NJ on June 17 1945 to Rita Smith Russell and William Russell. Joan lived in Ridgefield, NJ for 25 years and graduated high school at Ridgefield Memorial High School. She then attended college in Johnstown, PA where she received her Associates in Art. She was a member of Central Penn Wheelers who sponsored her in the Wheelchair Olympics to where she traveled to England and Austria to attain a gold metal in Swimming and silver medal in Discus and Javelin. She then married Joseph Degelman Jr. of Paterson, NJ who passed away on December 12, 1993. She is survived by her sister Rosemary Russell Malone and her husband Bernie, her nieces Jill Kerr and Katie McArthur, her daughters Tammy Degelman Murillo and her husband John and Terry Degelman Nocco and her husband Michael, her grandchildren Cassandra Murillo, Samantha Nocco, Joseph Nocco and Michael Nocco. Funeral from the A.K. Macagna Funeral Home 495 Anderson Avenue Cliffside Park, N.J. on Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 9:15am. thence to St. Matthew Church in Ridgefield where a Funeral Mass will be offered at 10:15am. Interment at Madonna Cemetery in Fort Lee. The family will receive their friends Wednesday 5-9pm.