Longtime Fair Havenite and former Knollwood School teacher, Joan Marie Held Fitzgerald, passed away, surrounded by “her greatest treasure, her family,” on July 15. She was 81.
Born July 22, 1941 in Dayton, Ohio to Mary and Clayton Held, she grew up in Middletown and attended Saint James School and Red Bank Catholic High School (RBC).
She is survived by: her husband, James F. Fitzgerald Jr.; children, Jamie Fitzgerald and his wife Beth, Meghan Dobish and her husband Matt, Katie Foley and her husband Ryan; her adoring grandchildren, who were the lights of her life, Charlotte, Diana, Hannah, Lilabelle, Ned, James, Hadley, and Liam; siblings, Greg and Jeri Held, of Red Bank, Alan Held, of Wilmington, NC, and Rita Held and Lou Cartelano, of Los Altos California; and many nieces and nephews she held dear.
A celebration of her life will be held at Nativity Church in Fair Haven on Aug. 30 at 11 a.m.
— Edited obituary prepared by family via John E. Day Funeral Home
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