JoAnn Yousse age 84, died Sunday, June 26, 2022, at the Jones Regional Medical Center, Anamosa after a sudden illness.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 Saturday morning, July 2, 2022, at the Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello with interment in the Oakwood Cemetery. Pastor Frank Shepherd, Jr. will officiate at the service.

Friends may call from 9:00 until service time Saturday at the funeral home. Goettsch Funeral Home has taken JoAnn and her family into their care. Thoughts, memories, and condolences may be left at goettschonline.com.

Surviving are, 4 children, Dean (Pat) Yousse, Tanda Foster (Brad Merfeld), Shawn (Kevin) Green, and Dale Joe (Jackie) Yousse; 15 Grandchildren; 26 Great-Grandchildren and one more on the way; and 3 great-great-grandchildren, 2 sisters, Ruth Bowers and Dorothy Norton and sister-in-law's, Judy and Sharon Harms.  She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Dale,  a son, and daughter-in-law, Dan (Joanne) Yousse, her siblings, Berdina Boysen, Louie Harms, Galen Harms, and in-laws, Ken Bowers, Bill Norton, and Johnny Boysen.

JoAnn Marie Yousse was born October 27, 1937, in Monticello, Iowa.  She was the daughter of Henry A. and Minnie Dirks, Harms.   She received her education in the rural schools near Monticello.  On January 28, 1960, JoAnn Harms and Dale Yousse were united in marriage at Wayne Zion Lutheran Church in rural Monticello.

The couple farmed in Hardscrabble near Monticello.   JoAnn worked off the farm at White Containers and Polo Plastics.   She enjoyed babysitting all her grandchildren, going mushroom hunting and searching for agates on the sandbar, and spending time drinking coffee with family and friends